Speaker Information

Speaker Information

Ruta Abolins Ruta Abolins is the Director of the Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She has over 30 years of experience working in moving image and sound archives. She has BFA in Filmmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University, and her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has written and presented on newsfilm,...

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Roundtables

Roundtables

Please note that all Roundtables are capped at 25 attendees – this is to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate.  Seats are first come/first served, and once the room capacity is reached, the room will be closed.       11:15 AM – 12:15 AM (Pacific) Roundtable: Mentorship Relationships: Empowering the Next Generation of AMIA Leaders Facilitator:  Ashley Franks-McGill, As emerging professionals, we may have...

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Program Stream: Content as Data – Archival Approaches

Program Stream: Content as Data – Archival Approaches

There is a growing interest in viewing “content as data.” Generally speaking, work in this space seeks to explore what can be possible when archives and cultural heritage organizations begin to think about, prepare, describe, and provision access to content data in ways that promote its amenability to computational use. The program stream focuses on work being done to manage digital content from a data perspective. Come and see emerging...

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