1. A & D @ the Research Forum
Trends in arrangement and description topics over the last 10 years
Katherine M. Wisser
SAA Research Forum
August 2, 2016

2. Scope of research

3. Posters, presentations and other contributions at the Research Forum 2007-2015
Year
Posters
Presentations
Other
Combo
Total
2007 8 7 4 19
2008 14 18 2 34
2009 26 17 1 46
2010 27 47
2011
2012 20 15 36
2013 16 11 45
2014 3
2015 21 22 43
180
152 5 25
362
Other includes research reports, keynote presentations, etc.

4. Posters, presentations and other contributions at the Research Forum 2007-2015

5. Melissa Gottwald: Research Forum 2011

6. Gottwald (2011) categories of presentation topics
Selection, appraisal, acquisition
Arrangement and description
Reference services and access
Preservation and protection
Outreach, advocacy and promotion
Managing archival programs
Professional, ethics, and legal responsibilities
Mixed
Other

7. Gottwald categories at the Research Forum

8. Comparison of Gottwald’s findings and the Research Forum

9. Arrangement and description total presentations 2007-2015
Year
Poster
presentation
Other
Combo
Total
2007 2 4
2008 6 1 8
2009 7 11
2010
2011
2012 3
2013 9
2014 10
2015 5 27 32 64

10. Arrangement and description total presentations 2007-2015

11. Comparison, total presentations and arrangement and description presentations

12. Overview of arrangement and description topics
Digital/electronic records
Large scale collections
MPLP
Localized standards for special formats or specific topics
Social media as a tool to enhance descriptive efforts
New standards implementation
Linked open data
Digital surrogates integrated with description
Creating, manipulating, exporting descriptions
Alternative models for description and its interplay with core principles

13. Sampling of topics over time
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Crosswalks
Social media
Collaboration
Creation/convergence
Item-level
Visualizations
Controlled vocabularies
Linked data
MPLP
Digital records
Specific formats: government records, audiovisual materials, artifacts, photographs, oral histories, etc.
Encoding standards: EAD, MARC, EAC-CPF

14. Analysis of one general topic
Encoding standards: EAD, MARC, EAC-CPF
EAD
MARC
EAC
EAC-CPF
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

15. Questions? Thank you!