2014-03-04 Meeting Notes DPIG

Date

04 March 2014

Location

PCL room 3.204

Attendees

  • Melanie Cofield

  • Jennifer Hecker

  • Sydney Gulbronson

  • Marta Gonzales-Palacios
  • Wendy Martin
  • Carlos Ovalle
  • Ladd Hanson
  • Jessica Meyerson
  • Beth Dodd
  • Mary Rose Hightower-Coyle

Agenda

  • Round robin updates
  • Archive-It cost-sharing possibilities - Jessica
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) mandate updates - Ladd
  • Digital Preservation Network (DPN) update - Ladd
  • Additional topics 

Discussion Items

ItemWhoNotes
UpdateJennifer
  • Islandora Camp at Berkeley, with Preservation and Bag-It module demos
  • Possibility of hosting such a camp at UT?
  • ArchiveSpace demo pending - lack of documentation for non-members, webinar foiled by campus closure
UpdateBeth
  • iSchool student project with born digital materials from Theater of War studio, moving from business plan to implementation
  • obtaining copies of studio course files from faculty
UpdateMarta
  • grassroots DAMS capstone update: testing recommended workflows for digitized and born-digital content, including in-house files
UpdateCarlos
  • Updating digital archaeology lab
  • Galloway's class projects: preserving rich-media tutorials with GLIFOS, Wowza, etc; preserving Savage Minds WordPress blog; CP/M emulation
  • Trace's class projects: virtualized instance of Archivematica; Bitlocker
UpdateMary Rose
  • Re-engaging on digital preservation to meet records mgmt mandates
  • Working w/ Meyerson at Briscoe on preserving utexas.edu
  • "Administrivia" is a University record
  • Executive correspondence going to Briscoe (University archives)
  • What might be going into our units' collections that are considered University records?
UpdateJessica
  • working with Jenn Coast at UT ITS on preserving utexas.edu
  • Archive-It as possibility for providing access to archived web content; there is campus interest; cost sharing and administration questions remain
  • Collaborating on setting up a BitCurator workshop (w/ Porter Olsen, Lauren Goodley, Witliff Collections, Austin Theological Seminary)
  • BCAH uses GLIFOS, but moving toward something else, maybe Avalon Media System or Doug Boyd's Oral History Metadata Synchronizer
UpdateLadd
  • Nearing completion of first Islandora project VRC/DASE migration
  • Streaming video strategy for campus:
    • Wowza
    • Lecture capture
    • Video on demand for campus, hosted through UT Libraries, if funded (looking at Avalon Media System)
  • Center for Teaching and Learning/EdX/MOOCs - ideas for campus infrastructure
    • unizen
      • learning analytics
      • resource sharing
      • learning object repo
    • still exploring UT Libraries' role, potential to amplify existing Libs projects
UpdateWendy
  • BitCurator workstation, developing digital forensics capabilities/buying writeblockers
  • Thinking through born-digital workflows ("digital intake"); one-size fits all process doesn't work
  • Developing guidelines & documentation in conjunction with architecture projects
  • Streaming audio DPOC
UpdateSydney
  • sitting in for Amy Bowman at BCAH
  • working on projects at Alexander Architectural Archives
UpdateMelanie
  • Yearbook digitization- working through CONTENTdm particulars, yearbooks as compound objects
  • Ongoing development of metadata guidelines, collection building and preservation workflows
  • Working towards solution for "in-process" digital content storage
  • Looking at Archivematica - technical/setup requirements challenging
  • Currently recruiting for half-time developer for various tech projects at law library (JS, PHP, MySQL, XML, HTML, CSS)
OSTPLadd
  • SHARE Notification System Project Plan (response to OSTP) - leveraging existing systems, phases
DPN

Ladd
  • 18 months' work so far
  • Pushed something out of Dspace, replicated to Stanford and Mich, but haven't gone the other way yet
  • Users would push content in through a "first node" as a point of control, specialization
  • TDL will be a "first node", UT is a "replicating node"
  • Will cost, won't be cheap
  • 1st board mtg tomorrow (incl our CIO, and head of TACC - we have 2!)
  • Last year was proof of concept, this year they'll pilot content
  • Issues
    • Encryption
    • business model
    • succession rights
  • DPN has a director, that's it. Maybe about to hire second person, maybe a project mgr. also, maybe asst to director
  • First membership mtg end of this month, after CNI

Action Items

  • Archivematica investigative group (check Fedora compatibility)
  • Avalon investigative group