2014-05-20 Meeting Notes DPIG

Date

20 May 2014

Attendees

Agenda

AWG updates
ArchivesSpace update
ideas for focused topics/speakers/demos for subsequent meetings?
- cloud storage addressed in donor agreements - Georgia Harper
- grant-funded project ideas?
- migrating accession records from FMP to archivists' toolkit?
- demo something you find useful
Round robin updates

Discussion Items

Item	Who	Notes
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)

Action Items

Add Adam to wiki
Add Benn to AWG group
Email TDL folks about UT-DPIG