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Avalon demo | Ladd | Avalon is an open source product: Hydra head, Ruby on Rails on top of Fedora, with Blacklight search/SOLR index, Matterhorn, Red5 streaming server MODS metadata only controlled vocabulary, has to done on command line Access control via EID and groups Derivatives created automatically Permalinks, embed code Can integrate with Canvas Simple, clean UI (inline player not fancy) Can put stuff in a drop box that enables batch upload (including metadata) and starts workflow process Supports Amazon streaming server, but not yet Wowza (What UT Libraries uses) - we may be able to contribute development resources to address this Center for Teaching and Learning on campus is very interested in possibility of integrating with Canvas LMS Library is willing to host Avalon, if we get some staff support (maybe from CTL?) Could charge back for storage costs, which are very low in Amazon No provision for transcripts or rich media; just audio and video files UT Digital Assets task force just starting up may end up discussing Avalon Adobe Experience Manager is also on the table ($1M/yr, which could pay for a lot of developers!) will need use cases at some point goal to compile recommendations by October 2014
Future opportunities to synthesize Drupal/Fedora/Islandora expertise on campus: We could be a part of the next gen development of Fedora, have been invited to help with Avalon May be Islandora packages down teh line that would work with Avalon to provide rich media/transcripts Big Islandora drawback is that Drupal nodes do not equal Fedora objects; new release of both will improve this.
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Archivematica/AtoM Working Group updates | Melanie | working group has been meeting regularly, fairly thorough exploration of Archivematica & microservices Now looking closely at AtoM - a happy accidental discovery while looking at Archivematica (Ladd thinks AtoM may be of more interest) complete evals and make recommendations for both systems by end of August discussion about developer bandwidth and how we can take advantage of and contribute to the open source landscape we can't afford it, so grant funding is necessary (hoping to get 2 developers for HRDI this way) discussion of collective/collaborative model
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ArchiveSpace inquiry | Liz | Speaking of tool testing, what's the latest on ArchiveSpace? Ransom Center is interested in keeping tabs on eval efforts |
UT-DPIG goals | - | Melanie encouraged group members to start thinking about ideas for group goals for the 2014-2015 year, and asked folks how they felt about continuing the standing monthly meeting format and the practicality of breakout groups. Comments included: Idea to make a case to admin for a developer pool - coordinating communication efforts to promote a centralized solution like that Working groups are handy for tool testing (tactical) Group brings together lots of diverse knowledge that can inform more strategic actions Group encouraged to add ideas for specific explorations to wiki
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update | Colleen | Still working on latest upgrade of DSpace; batch import program will now work with multiple files per item |
update | Sydney | 70K records ready to migrate from Liberal Arts DASE to UT Libraries cataloging tool (Phase 1); front end migration will be Phase 2 Ladd broke down the project challenges: using this project to learn Islandora project more complicated than expected: metadata cleanup, volume of files actually running through all the steps as a human manually entering data still finding issues in data and code taking ~twice as long as originally anticipated (1 year instead of 6 mos) mapping functionality in old system to new has been fairly easy new features like pulldown menus with controlled vocabs will help keep data cleaner going forward
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update | Liz | new HRC director last year - overhaul of org, with strategic plan (physical plant, staffing model, etc.) about halfway through Liz in charge of digital access and infrastructure, funding TBD coordinating digital initiatives working group w/ Amy Armstrong - working on open access policy for public domain materials (YAY!) overseeing REVEAL project: Reading and Viewing English and American Literature: entire collections of public domain materials (smaller, 8boxes or less, item level description) online via CONTENTdm, w/ finding aids call for proposals opening up to scholarly community for engaging with materials, stipends current digitization rate ~1500 pages/mo.
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update | Amy | NEH foundations grant to survey non-commercial audio materials w/ hopes to prioritize digitization efforts (based on condition and potential scholarly interest/use) - counter to existing digitization decisions based on curatorial and patron input. |
update | Ladd | DPN update: working on architecture (for a year thus far) hiring service manager and technical manager 60 members thus far paying 20K each draft business model developed - revenue exceeds expenses on paper - deeper evaluation of model beginning members get 5TB of space free at first - pricing model in development integration testing b/t nodes underway, transferring bags, ramping up scale through fall 2014, will move to representative content for testing, with plans to go live in 2015
Discussion about differences b/t TDL and DPN storage options : differences in charges and in dependencies - TDL means relying solely on specified repository (Amazon or Duracloud), while DPN means your content is replicated in repos around the country. It comes down to how long a view you need to take for your content. Discussion of TDL and DPN membership models - there are differences; is there a relationship b/t the models? Clarification is needed on actual membership eligibility for each |