2015-11-05 Meeting notes

2015-11-05 Meeting notes

Date

Nov 5, 2015

Attendees

  • @Jessica Wesley Meyerson

Agenda

Discussion items

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Who

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Introductions

Everyone

  • Marianna Symoneides

  • Adam Rabinowitz

  • Ashley Adair

  • Katie Pierce Meyer

  • Jessica Meyerson

 

Recruitment

  • Marianna - CSU training, an audience to tap into

  • Adam - there was a call in COLA to come up with research groups and they put up an archaeology research cluster focused on digital archieology and complex digital objects, COLA's effort to revitalize TARL - those people would be the network of people, research cluster are people that could go in on grants together; one off round table with food - a faculty panel, Spring (break it out into the appropriate domains)

    • this would need to be targeted with key individuals that you knew could do it

    • clear thematic connections between the members in a mixed-domain group

    • most faculty have an issue with data preservation but it's not urgent

    • data management plan should be part of the invitation so people see an end goal or benefit to participate

    • training needs to be framed in terms of solving a probleme rather than creating more work

  • Ashley is interested in this because Dr. Haricombe is interested in being embedded in the research, not just seen as a service that faculty needs to find. They can see that value.

  • Marianna - it is unclear whether the faculty research data is a state record - it depends on the contract with the funding agency

    • the retention period for data is 3-5 years after the project is over

    • if faculty don't want to get rid of that data afterwards to do a longitudinal study, that is an option but you have to have clear justification

    • could this be useful for developing records management training for faculty or a webinar

    • there is a big question about which is which

  • Ashley

    • where does records management leave off and the data management librarian picks up

  • TACC 5,000 for faculty

    • Space on production server

    • Maintenance of data set

    • Someone who works with data structures and metadata

    • Commitment for maintenance for dynamic data sets

  • The relationships between existing department and new positions that are only recently coming online

 

Software and Data Infrastructure

  • TACC gets things started so we need to bring TACC into a conversation about relationships to archives, faculty, the library

  • Also workflow for moving this stuff around - workflows and technology for facilitating large files - possible panel (UTBox)

  • software preservation

 

Round Robins

  • Marianna - 

    • new system for sending materials to and from the records center

    • records management for social media

    • automating the disposition process

    • Qualtrics form for disposition as a band-aid solution

    • How are you recommending that people preserve social media

    • Need to go ahead and sign up for the Archive-It sandbox

    • Nov. 17th is the E-Recs conference, all day at the Pickle ($85)

  • Ashley -

    • creating a lab

    • DAMTF - stakeholder interviews

    • TACC Grant - Long term preservation for the items that are piped through the system versus working and live data sets, she met with Maria to see TACC machines

    • Marianna did a needs assessment for DAMS and will send to Ashley

    • Katie and I can send her the CDO questions

Action items