2014-05-20 Meeting Notes DPIG

Archivematica Working Group updates

Melanie & Ladd

• detailed meeting notes in wiki (labelled "AWG")

• weekly meetings Thursdays, 10am, for the next several weeks

• Ladd's initial tests w/ small files on Amazon instance: really slow processes (esp FITS)

• will have user logins ready for Thursday meeting

• mount storage on desktop to speed up processing?

• balancing batch processing need and transfer processing speed

• question about what Archivematica's "Standard" transfer is

Streaming Media Services

Ladd

• demonstrated Avalon for CTL

• Could demo for UT-DPIG

ArchivesSpace update

Jennifer

• revisit this in a year

• documentation behind membership req is problematic

• iSchool is exploring educational use - tap Carlos for details

ideas for meeting topics/speakers/demos

all

• DPOC project updates (e.g. VRC Drupal interface demo)

  • NOTE: Nature of DPOC is currently changing

• LIFT funding opportunities

• Grant funding ideas?

  • Adam - TACC established relationships via internally funded seed projects for future grants; challenging process with TACC b/c of resource allocation among competing grants; paradigm shift needed, since projects in early stages not likely to win awards due to lack of proof of concept and startup costs. Duke as model (spend $$ to make $$)

  • Elizabeth - engage Computer Science faculty and students in early project momentum-building - integrate digital projects with CS curriculum

  • Jen - pairing iSchool and CS students as teams on innovative UTL projects

  • Inroads with CS?

• Every third DPIG meeting - breakout groups?

Update

Wendy

• Exploring BitCurator use at UT Libs; workshop w/ Porter Olsen 5/21, and talk 5/22 in iSchool - maybe demo BitCurator for UT-DPIG?

• New unit in UT Libs - Digital Curation Services (Digitization services, Scholarly comm, Digital archivist (recruitment pending) announced last Friday)

• Implementation working group on Digital Curation, more news forthcoming

Update

Jennifer

• Learning Drupal theming

• Working on The Voice website

• attending Digital Humanities conferences, exploring Libraries' place/role

Update

Elizabeth

• Faculty driven projects:

  • 900+ slides of 16th century Mexican architecture; collaborating with ArtStor (cost-sharing) and using SharedShelf

  • Fat Cookie Login transition issues

• New School of Architecture website with Drupal

  • VRC site forthcoming

Update

Adam

• Large, growing archive of born digital and digitized archeological documents - needs long-term home and rich online publication. Currently have medium-term archival home w/ TACC.

  • tried automated metadata extraction process with TACC

  • TACC isn't long-term archival storage solution

  • now at point of publication, looking for appropriate platform (data blog?)

  • this illustrates typical archeological data problem

• NEH startup grant

  • develop workflow and software solution: Cultural Heritage Imaging and Digital Lab Notebook

    • user-generated metadata created during workflow of taking pictures, transforming them, and producing 3D model

    • focusing on problem space of point-of-creation metadata - well-formed package to hand to Library/Archive for digital preservation

• PI on project researching period assertions

  • recording usage

• Randy Deal - Archeology Summit Friday 5/24, will include:

  • TARL at Pickle - COLA discussion about what to do with it

  • Need for lab with digital focus (which means more datasets needing homes going forward)