"Study Hall" - silent review of printed agenda, making notes, getting in the zone
Recap of highlights/action items from last month's meeting
digital humanities/scholarship group activities - update?
environmental scan of complex objects on campus - let's set some action items:
identify, connect with, and define target campus communities
develop 5-10 survey questions
identify survey distribution channels
ideas for actively expanding reach of DPIG collaborative work - publishing, workshops, co-sponsoring events as goals?
DC-2014 conference recap
how do we participate/contribute/edit - various projects presented at Fonds & Bonds (SNAC, iSNI, etc)
Round Robin Updates (3 per attendee)
Melanie:
1 month at UT Libs;
Digital Curation Implementation Team;
DPOC projects
Katie:
2 months as APL Librarian;
digital humanities environmental scan (Architecture);
UTDR/UTSOA video preservation
Jessica:
metadata crosswalking to MODS for digital collections;
Preserving UTexas submitting a proposal; ASMP Software Systems
volunteer to make contact with Fine Arts and Engineering to investigate their CDOs (we should probably decide how many different groups we want to target in our sample - 4-5 domains may reveal 75% of the major challenges for all domains creating CDOs)
Esther:
Updates to Atom 2.1, some increased functionality
MARC export may be forthcoming
Fonds and Bonds
Maryrose
EDMS enterprise-level document management system
Adam
Reflectance transformation imaging stuff
Archaeology data management group meeting
UG CS student working on metadata extraction tool, Linked Data
Discussion items
Item
Who
Notes
Intro to Study Hall format
Melanie
Housekeeping
Melanie
The Outlook invite for the meeting was suggested as a way to get organized - was it useful?
the majority of attendees did find it helpful
Next month is the last meeting of the semester -
Do we want to do anything special for that meeting?
Do we have any special goals for that meeting?
Things we want to shore up or have ready for January?
Recap on digital scholarship
Melanie/Jennifer
There have been 2 campus-wide gatherings
They pulled together representatives from groups inside the libraries doing related work
The TX DH Consortium is working on fleshing out their website - the area where you can make a profile with projects and special interests so that people can find each other and connect
Next TX DH Consortium will be in Arlington in April
UT-wide meetings have been informal - conversation, getting people subscribed to the UT-DH listserv
a couple of projects have already come out of that - possible grant proposals
the meetings have been advertised on campus but have also pulled in some folks from outside of campus
The TX DH consortium list would be a good place to push the interinstitutional conversation around DH
Last session there was a discussion about combining DP questions in the DH survey with Jennifer and Ece
They surveyed the UTLib group about the survey and identified DH projects/relationships that were preexisting
Also concerns about giving the impression that the survey implies immediate action on DH on campus, which would not have been accurate
Environmental Scan of Complex Objects on Campus
Melanie/Katie/Jennifer/Adam
Thinking about the best way to do this
Surveys introduce the following issues:
response rate
promises/expectation management
people feel obligated to answer even if the available responses do not describe their practice
Perhaps the environmental scan should be more like interviews or focus groups
Interviews would allow us to build relationships
How closely related are these two efforts
It sounds like these two efforts should be different
Adam feels that perhaps one way to go about it is to focus the scan on specific departments
Katie suggested that for natural sciences or engineering, the bibliographers might be able to provide a contact
Jennifer suggests a phased approach to the scan
Where we take where we learned from the 3 groups and then be able to show some progress for people in the problem
The phased approach also manages the scale for the environmental scan and the case studies
Natural Sciences preservation -
Is it even an issue for them?
Do they know they have a problem?
Contacts for Natural Sciences:
Dennis Trombatori (sp?) at the Geology Library
Cameron in the DAMS group - Associate Dean for Natural Sciences ?
Melanie feels that this environmental scan will also be useful for the Digital Curation group at UT Libraries
Figuring out how to break down the environmental scan?
Faculty only?
Number of faculty per unit
How many people should be in the unit-based teams
Roles on a team
interviewer (information science) - thinking about involving the iSchool
Pat Galloway - translator between archiving and archeology
leveraging the Digital Archives class or capstone
capstone proposals are due in December
students could be involved but we would need to know exactly what we needed them to do
Diane Bailey - information professionals at work
content specialist (Ex. Adam, Katie, Sydney) to serve as translator
Tasks
IRB approval if we are going to publish anything or present any results
Transcription and coding
Interview Questions
What do want to outcomes to be
summary report
identifying patterns - common needs
unexpected
matching faculty needs to services we already provide on campus/matching competencies
workshop
grant scoping - coming up with ideas for ideas
recommendations for services
thinking about this as a research initiative
communities of practice
what people are doing
what we've got
were there is overlap
Short description of what we are doing
Complex Digital Objects - give examples and define terms
Environmental scan of what CDOs mean in the context of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
identify issues common to all
how they are using, managing, and preserving those things
One faculty and one staff per unit for the interviews = total of 6 interviews
As far as the relationship between the group (with an identity as group) and the campus, we are all here representing our respective institutions - we are not representing ourselves as a group
Action items
Interview questions - two per member of the group
Breaking down the roles in a solid team configuration
Identifying interviewees
Contacting Eunjung - with a description of what we are doing and get an ETA on the IRB process
Contact Dr. Galloway about her class and the PI on the thing