Senior Archivist

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

Jean Marie Deken

SLAC Archives, History & Records Office and Research Library
Building 50 Room 122
Mail Stop 97
Ext. 3091(v) / 3329(f)
jmdeken[at]slac.stanford.edu

Responsibilities

• Support Archives, History & Records Office and Research Library operations
• Assist in identifying, collecting and preserving the historically, legally, or intrinsically valuable records of SLAC
• Facilitate access to and use of the records and history of SLAC
• Provide essential information services to SLAC's research programs
• Support management of the laboratory's temporary records in compliance with government regulations

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 - 2010.
• National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators (NAGARA) 1992-   .
• Society of American Archivists
  Webmaster, Electronic Records Section, 2002-2012
  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
• SLAC Archives, History & Records Office

Recent Presentations and Publications

• Q&A:SLAC's Archivist Closes a Chapter, by Amanda Solliday, symmetry magazine, May 1, 2018
• "The web's first "Killer App": SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's World Wide Web site 1991-1993." Chapter 3 in Brügger, Niels, Ed Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web. Peter Lang, New York, 2017
• "Review of Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies," Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol8/iss1/1
• "History of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 1962-2016." Banquet speech at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, San Jose, CA November 2, 2016.
• Historians at Work in the SLAC Archives: An Archivist's Perspective Presentation at the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester England, July 2013
• Science Archives at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) in press, 2013
• Case study in: Many Happy Returns: Advocacy and the Development of Archives. Edited by Larry J Hackman, Society of American Archivists (2011).
• Management and Preservation of Scientific Records and Data, R. Arovelius et al. Section on University and Research Institution Archives, Committee on Scientific and Research Data, International Council on Archives, December 2010
• 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 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)

Solliday, Amanda. Q & A: SLAC's Archivist Closes A Chapter" symmetry magazine, May 1, 2018 (interview)

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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