2013-12-06 Meeting Notes DPIG

2013-12-06 Meeting Notes DPIG

Date

06 December 2013

Location

conference room in the PCL administrative suite (3.204)

Attendees

  • Melanie Cofield

  • Jennifer Hecker

  • Carlos Ovalle

  • Ladd Hanson

  • Aaron Choate

  • Jessica Meyerson

  • Amy Bowman

  • Colleen Lyon

  • Michael McFarlin

Agenda

  • usual round of intros, updates, including professional development recaps

  • possible Islandora demo 

  • overview of campus streaming services products under review (Wowza, etc.)

Discussion Items

Item

Who

Notes

Item

Who

Notes

Update

Carlos

  • DSpace 3 production upgrade

  • iSchoolers continuing to work with Alexander Architectural Archive materials

  • Carlos, Jessica Meyerson, and Zach Vowell (formerly of Briscoe Center) accepted to present at SAA on software preservation

  • Carlos presenting w/ Georgia Harper to Benson on Google Books outcome/access to scans

Update

Ladd

  • DSpace 4 updates = major changes, especially to interface

  • beta testing DSpace 3 curation/replication tasks by this Winter break: push button, send to DPN nodes

  • invited to join MOOC committee on campus: sub-committee on digital asset management

  • OSTP mandate, SHARE interface - June 2014

  • UT System signed w/ HathiTrust - content being sent over now!

Update

Aaron

  • moving VRC cataloging (DASE) to Islandora/Fedora - maybe demo in Jan-Feb 2014

  • EdX Consortium meeting at MIT: content management, MOOCS, roles of libraries - where to put assets before landing in e-course systems to preserve, enable re-use?

  • Coalition for Networked Information meeting this weekend

Update

Jessica

  • Briscoe in process of gathering documentation for Discovery Garden assessment (including budget), timeline TBD

  • tweaking metadata standards, looking at MODS

  • interviewing for Digital Archivist position before Winter break

  • seeking collaborators to work "born digital" language into policy docs and deeds of gift

  • working on email archives project with UT records management officer Maryrose Hightower Coyle

Update

Colleen

  • looking forward to DSpace 4 upgrade

  • recent faculty uploads to UTDR = exciting!

  • new strategy for more efficient batch uploads handled by Colleen: metadata first

  • invited by Dean Hendrickson to talk about data management resources at faculty meeting - interest in wide promo, scaling up

  • digital asset management a hot topic

Update

Michael

  • attended recent vendor demos of streaming services being considered for campus-wide offering

Update

Melanie

  • preservation reformatting of a/v cassettes in archives

  • need for shared "temp" storage (staging & processing)

  • UT Law yearbook digitization project planned for Spring 2014, to be delivered via CONTENTdm. Group suggestions: get ahead of take-down requests with clear policy.

  • seeing increasing need to archive websites. Recommendations? General consensus on tools/methods available: nothing is perfect, Archive-It best option. Build archive strategies into existing publishing/content management process?

  • sessions on digital library assessment at Digital Library Federation forum helpful for early stages of planning digital library program and policies at Tarlton

Update

Jennifer

  • ArchivesSpace eval still ongoing - show & tell in Spring 2014?

  • now working in UT Libraries' Integration Services unit

Streaming Services Taskforce Summary

Aaron, Michael

  • Echo 360 and MediaSite = course capture, active UT Austin user community

  • Sharestream = only one to promote handling of metadata, standout product for asset management and distribution

  • Kaltura = primarily a live stream service, integrated into Canvas

  • Wowza = behind GLIFOS and Echo360, proof that streaming can be done w/out huge investment. LAITS, UT Libraries, and iSchool are using it.

Action Items

Schedule next meeting for 1.5 hours
Spring demos by Jennifer (ArchivesSpace), Aaron (VRC cataloging in Islandora/Fedora), DPN (Ladd)