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Sunday, August 4 • 4:30pm - 5:30pm
405 - America Contacts Congress: The Project to Save Congressional Correspondence Data [GOV]

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Constituent correspondence with the U.S. Congress captures the interactions between Americans and their elected representatives. Congress manages correspondence with proprietary systems, and data exported from these systems poses challenges to repositories across the country. No repository has processed these large data sets in a replicable way, and data is at risk of disappearing. The America Contacts Congress project, funded by a LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant, provides a roadmap for preserving and providing access to this unique resource.

Moderator: Danielle Emerling
Facilitators
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Danielle Emerling

Associate Director, West Virginia & Regional History Center, West Virginia University

Speakers
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John Caldwell

Coord. of Political Papers and Electronic Records, University of Delaware Library, Museum & Press
John Caldwell is the Coordinator of Political Papers and Electronic Records at the University of Delaware.
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M. Alison White

Deputy Senate Archivist for Digital Collections, U.S. Senate Historical Office
Alison White has been with the U.S. Senate Historical Office since 2009 focusing on electronic records and digital preservation. Before that she spent 6 years at the University of Virginia Law Library as Archivist and Curator of Special Collections.
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Nathan Gerth

Head of Digital Services, University of Nevada, Reno
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Brandon Pieczko

Processing and Digital Archivist, University of Georgia

Sunday August 4, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
203/204, [Level 2]
  Education Session, GOV

Attendees (122)