Introducing Delivering Archives and Digital Objects: a Conceptual Model (DadoCM)! in Descriptive Notes I wrote a post for the SAA Description Section blog about DadoCM that discusses what its trying to do and what changes it suggests in... Written by Gregory Wiedeman · 2025 October
How We Stopped Charging Students to Submit ETDs: Case Study of a Five-Year Odyssey in Journal of Graduate Librarianship, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2024) In 2019, the Graduate School at the University at Albany, State University of New York wrote to the University Libraries about the processing of archival... Written by Emily Kilcer and Gregory Wiedeman · 2025 March
How we manage our ETDs at UAlbany My colleague, Emily Kilcer, and I published an article about our multi-year effort to better steward electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at UAlbany. This post... 2024 August
Designing Digital Discovery and Access Systems for Archival Description in Code4Lib Journal, Issue 55 Archival description is often misunderstood by librarians, administrators, and technologists in ways that have seriously hindered the development of access and discovery systems. It is... 2023 January
Why Blacklight and Arclight are Awesome They Let Us Design Digital Repositories Together Blacklight and Arclight might be my favorite tools right now. They have many of the characteristics in tools and systems that I really enjoy: they... 2022 December
