Archivist

         "Archives offer...a sense of identity, locality, history, culture, and personal and collective memory..."

Jean Marie Deken

SLAC Archives and History Office
Building 214 Room 8
Mail Stop 66
Ext. 3091(v) / 5731(f)
jmdeken[at]slac.stanford.edu

Responsibilities

• Head, Archives and History Office
• Identify, collect and preserve the historically, legally, or intrinsically valuable records of SLAC
• Facilitate access to and use of the records and history of SLAC

Interests and Memberships

• Academy of Certified Archivists
• Association for Documentary Editing
• Beta Phi Mu
• Cooperation on Archives of Science in Europe
• Midwest Archives Conference
• Smithsonian Institution, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation, Advisory Committee 2006-    .
• National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators (NAGARA) 1992-   .
• Society of American Archivists
  Webmaster, Electronic Records Section, 2002-   
  Metadata and Digital Objects Roundtable, 2005-   
  Science, Technology and Health Care Roundtable, 1997-   
  (Co-Chair 2002-2004)
• Society of California Archivists
• Stanford Historical Society
  Associate Editor, Sandstone and Tile, 2001-2005.
  Member, Publications Committee, 2000-.
  Webmaster, 2002-2007.
• Western Archives Institute
  Site Selection Committee Chair, 2001-2002
  Local Arrangements Chair, 1998-1999
  Faculty, 1998-1999.

Web pages

• Favorite Links and Resources
• SAA Electronic Records Section
• SLAC Archives and History Office
  (with Laura O'Hara, Assistant Archivist)
• Stanford Historical Society
  (with R&W Consulting)

Recent Presentations and Publications

• Archiving Born-Digital Records. Presentation at the Fifth Lab History Conference, Johns Hopkins University, June 2009.
• Advocacy and Outreach at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Archives and History Office. Paper presented at Future Proof V, Barcelona, May 2009.
• Hybrid Paper/Electronic Archival Collecting, Processing, and Reference: A View from SLAC. Paper presented at Future Proof IV, Stockholm, April 2008.
• Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace: Pief Remembers. W. K. H. Panofsky (Author), Jean Marie Deken (Contributing Editor). New York: Springer, 2007.
• Metadata Development for the Persistent Archives Testbed (PAT) Project: slides. SAA 2007 Metadata Roundtable, Chicago IL.
• 21ST Century Tools For Archivists: A Progress Report on Persistent Archives at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC): slides. NAGARA 2007, Kansas City, MO, and at the National Archives of Brazil, December 5, 2007 .
• Logbook: The Blue Book. symmetry: dimensions of particle physics, Volume 4, Issue 4, May 2007, p. 33.
• PAWN Workflow - SLAC to NARA. presentation at the National Archives and Records Administration National Archives Assembly meeting, Getting Records from the Creator's Desktop to the Archives: Some Experimental Results. July 28, 2006, College Park, MD. slides notes.
• Voices: Milestones vs. History --Looking Forward, Looking Back: An Archivist's Perspective. symmetry: dimensions of particle physics, Volume 3, Issue 5, June/July 2006, p. 8-9.
• Documenting the Physical Universe: Preserving the Record of SLAC from 1962 to 2005. SLAC, March 2006. Paper presented at Society of American Archivists' 69th Annual Meeting 8/20/2005, New Orleans, LA. (SLAC-PUB-11737)(pdf).
• PAT Project Lessons Learned: Archivists' Perspectives. Archival Outlook, November/December 2005. Society of American Archivists: Chicago IL. p. 10-23.
• Future Proof for Physics: Preserving the Record of SLAC . (pdf version or html version.) Journal of Archival Organization V.3 No.1, 2005. Invited talk presented at Future proof: delivering scientific archives in the twenty-first century. (Co-operation on the Archives of Science), Edinburgh, Scotland, 4/9/2003-4/11/2003. (SLAC-PUB-9686). 
• Archiving SLD Records in SRB: The Persistent Archives Test-Bed (PAT) Project at SLAC in 2004. (pdf) SLAC, December 2004. Invited talk presented at Future Proof II, Munich, DE, April 20-22,2005. (SLAC-PUB-10857). 
• Preserving Digital Libraries: Determining "What?" Before Deciding "How?". Co-Published simultaneously in Science & Technology Libraries V.25 No. 1/2, 2004, pp. 227-241 and: Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment: Challenges for Librarians and Researchers in the Sciences (ed: Jeannie P. Miller) Haworth: Binghamton NY. p. 227-241.
• Whither Processing? An Incremental Approach (pdf). Talk presented at Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 18-24, 2003. (SLAC-PUB-10135). 
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Celebrating 40 Years: A Photo History. Jean Marie Deken, Senior Editor. SLAC, 2002 (SLAC-R-605). (pdf)
• Longevity of Electronic/Digital Records: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF). Handout for Invited talk presented at the US Department of Energy Records Management Conference, San Antonio, TX, 6/4/01 -- 6/7/01. (SLAC-PUB-8705). 
• Electronic Recordkeeping: An Introduction. (pdf version; or html version.) Invited talk presented at the US Department of Energy Records Management Conference, Orange CA, 5/17/99 - 5/20/99. (SLAC-PUB-8152). 
• Writ In Water? An exploration of the gap between Archival construct and practice in the machine-readable environment. ( pdf version; or html version.) Working With Knowledge--International Archives Conference, Canberra, 1998. (SLAC-PUB-7811). 
• First in the Web, But Where are the Pieces? (pdf version or html version.) Society of American Archivists,Chicago, 1997. (SLAC-PUB-7636).

(And just for fun: The Archives Song)

Note: Some links on this page open pdf files, which require the free Acrobat Reader.

Note: Quote at top of page is from Cook, Terry. " Archival Science and postmodernism: New Formulations for Old Concepts, 2000. Referenced by Mark Greene, The Power of Archives. Presidential Address, American Archivist v72 no 1 p. 36.

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