SAA Visual Materials Section

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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

3 weeks ago

The Society for Imaging Technology is still accepting papers on a rolling basis for the 2019 conference in Portugal: "Join an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss the digitization, preservation and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials."
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Archiving Home

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The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together an international community of imaging experts and technicians as well as curators, managers, and researchers from libraries, archives, museums, records ma...

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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

3 weeks ago

"Coddington said, 'I once calculated that there were 40 million photographs of Union soldiers taken during the Civil War. Even if only 10 percent survive, there are 4 million images out there today.' Yet we have names for few of them: 'David Wynn Vaughan, a premier collector of Confederate soldier images, estimates that no more than 10 or 20 percent of the images he’s seen during his more than 25 years of collecting are identified,' Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography." ... See MoreSee Less

Historians Are Using Facial Recognition Software to Identify People in Civil War Photographs

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Though an estimated 4 million photographs of Union soldiers survive, the figures they capture have only been identified in 20 percent of all cases.

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1 month ago

The SAA Council has approved the merger! We'll post updates on the transition as they happen. Welcome VMCAS members! ... See MoreSee Less

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

From our section chair, Sandra Varry:
"Thank you to all those who voted in the VMCAS Special Referendum to determine if the section will merge with the Visual Materials Section. The referendum closed ...

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