As part of the SCAA's mission to promote the use of Archives, we have maintained the Saskatchewan Archival Information Network (SAIN), with the help of the University of Saskatchewan.  SAIN initially was established in 2000 and has gone through many transformations since. It is a network of information about archival holdings in Saskatchewan and currently consists of two databases, one containing descriptions of archival collections and the other descriptions and digital scans of photographs in our members' collections.

One of the most significant transformations was the deployment of the software platform "Access to Memory" or AtoM.  This piece of software is open-source, developed by Artefactual Systems in British Columbia, and has been implemented by most provinces and territories including Archives Canada at the national level. AtoM allows our members to directly enter their descriptions into the database, without the help of additional staff.  The AtoM software also has the ability to handle all the differing levels of in archival description making SAIN a powerful research tool.

This ability has made it possible to merge SCAA's two databases into one and as of late 2019 SCAA, in partnership with the U of S and Artefactual, have undertaken the process of merging the two databases of SAIN into one. This project is expected to be completed in the first few months of 2020. This will allow the public to conduct research and searches of the full content of both databases at once, including the ability to search within different photograph collections

Please watch this website for further news on this project.

With project progressing and SCAA working on final edits of the newly merged SAIN. We are looking to sometime in late March to launch the site. With many of the other provincial databases having a unique name: British Columbia, https://www.memorybc.ca/; Alberta, https://albertaonrecord.ca/; Manitoba, https://main.lib.umanitoba.ca/; Ontario, https://www.archeion.ca/; New Brunswick, https://search.canbarchives.ca/; Nova Scotia, https://memoryns.ca/; Prince Edward Island, http://www.archives.pe.ca/atom/; Newfoundland, https://arc.anla.nf.ca/.

 And finally, of course, Library and Archives of Canada, https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/