Join us at the "Describing Web Archives" advanced training webinar

Join us at 11AM Pacific, 2PM Eastern on Tuesday, May 22, for Describing Web Archives, a live webinar with Archive-It partners and Internet Archive staff. Presenters will review the state of descriptive practice and recommendations for web archivists as compiled by the OCLC Web Archiving Metadata Working Group, introduce their own case studies of providing access to web archives through archival finding aids and bibliographic records, and take your questions.

This webinar is part of the Archive-It Advanced Training series, but no Archive-It experience is necessary and we welcome all to attend. If you have wondered about how best to describe web archival collections for patron access and use, then this webinar is for you! Register here.

Presenters in alphabetical order:

Kate Bowers, Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards, Harvard University Archives. She has held a variety of positions in the Harvard University Archives for the past 22 years. Before joining the Harvard University Archives, she worked at Tufts University, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Division, and Harvard Law School. She has also been adjunct faculty at Simmons College School of Library and  Information Science. She was co-author with Jackie Dooley of the Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group.

Rebecca Guenther, Metadata consultant. She spent most of her professional life at the Library of Congress in the Network Development & MARC Standards Office, where she developed and maintained metadata standards, including MARC, MODS, PREMIS, ISO language codes, among others. While at LC she participated in designing a workflow and metadata specification for describing the archived websites that LC was collecting in its theme-based captures during the early years of web archiving. After leaving LC in 2011, she has worked as a consultant, including with the New York Art Resources Consortium to develop a metadata profile and data dictionary for describing archived websites. She teaches metadata at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program.

Deborah Kempe, Chief, Collections Management & Access, the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection. She holds a B.A. with honors in Art History and a MLIS from the University of Missouri. At The Frick, she spearheaded the Library’s involvement in the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) and the Library’s pioneering Web Archiving Program.

Jessica Venlet, Assistant University Archivist for Digital Records & Records Management, University of North Carolina Libraries. In this role, Jessica is responsible for a variety of things related to both records management and digital preservation. In particular, she leads the acquisition and management of born-digital university records, including websites. She earned a MSI degree from the University of Michigan.