Recap from the January 17, 2017 ProjectARCC conference call. Future meetings dates can be found here.

• Introduction to ProjectARCC and welcome to phone call – Eira Tansey
• Projects of interest to ARCChivists
  • Margaret Janz from Penn shared updates from the Philly weekend of  #DataRefuge  Many more events are now in the works, and you should see if one of the Data Rescue events is happening near you. And there is now a public catalog of the datasets that the various DataRescue events are capturing. Check out the DataRefuge github repo for more documentation.
  • Eira Tansey shared information from Melissa Torres from University of Houston. Torres shared preliminary results from a disasters survey conducted by Disaster Planning and Recovery Subcommittee of the Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC)
• Other upcoming events/ideas for collaboration
  • Several people on the call discussed an interest in putting together a virtual DataRescue event. Contact eira.tansey@uc.edu if you’re interested in future plans concerning this.
  • The 2nd Keeping History Above Water conference will take place again at the end of October 2017 in Annapolis. If you are interested in sponsorship, in submitting a speaker proposal, or being included in an advanced registration notice, please send your name, email and organization information to histpres@annapolis.gov