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A&M | everyone feels pretty good about having A&M and we just want to focus on balance; splitting it up the programming of digital scholarship in the morning and digital preservation in the afternoon; TCDL is state-wide and it is nice to have something focused on UT Austin so opening it to everyone might be perceived of shutting down TCDL |
Archive-It | Liz: HRC is testing Archive-It right now, Archive-It can talk to us about existing consortial models and other institutions that have a consortial fee structure; they've had a flaky rep so we need to ask for someone else; IT contract negotiation, call scheduled with Duke in the next 2 weeks about scaleability; Liz could give us a link to her notes with Duke. |
Euan | Digital continuity analyst or something like that; at University Archives NZ - he worked on rendering - opening digital objects in a variety of contexts (archives new zealand old website called, "Rendering Matters"; they opened up old files and 90% of people use 20% of feature but almost everyone uses one weird feature that no one else uses, and they found when they were checking those objects in different environments they found that the stuff they opened almost always had a problem in modern software; they employed a student to open each file in each of the different environments and answer a long list of questions (8-9 minutes to test all 3 per file); new content actually appeared in the files when read in a later application - those findings taking the software images and using the emulators - bwfla was born because dirk was a visiting fellow to yale and started working with euan born digital working group is responsible for the platform and that consists of folks from repositories all over the campus
Born Digital working group Euan has been describing software without standards, some in PRONOM, and since then TOTEM has porduced a comprehensive model but might be overkill for our needs. He applied for a software curation post-doc fellow to come and figure out how to document software at Yale - talk to the various groups that are out there and look at the landscape and figure out what to do, who to work for: the software itself needs to be documented, the components of the emulation environment also has to be documented - like the hard drive images, config files - interoperability
EaaS - complex digital objects project (complex objects where there isn't an easy way to site a point or view of them) - they are approaching it by enabling pause/state from a certain point in a virtual machine; passing print outs to the local machine using postscript he also wants to think about where we are going to put the disk images and derivative disk images that rely on the master he's also leading preservica as a digital preservation system at yale - so keep them there and serve them up - but how do you related the derivatives in a meaningful way in a hierarchical system (it's not clear how to conceive of that); how we are we going to advocate for the IP issues and the cultural heritage use case when the different components in the emulated environments are stored in different places how do we support this stuff long-term - bwfla guys (they may create a software support company to continue to work on development for EaaS but what about the emaultors themselves euan was asked to do a webinar for nara about emulation recently - he thought of that because afterwards he was talking to the guy that organized that and that he was talking to someone in the UN, Kevin DeOrsey (they are interested in the open planets foundation Cameron - Director of Technology at Dell Medical School, ask him about the LIFT grant TACC grant - Natural Hazard Engineering end-to-end system, they do alot of simulation work - they have these modeling programs simulating all of those things: and they brought in a bunch of domain scientists to gather user requirements for scientists on the project; a big thing that kept coming up was which version of AdCirc will be supported for that so mabye the appropriate way to address that is mabye Emulation as a Service as part of the stack for the engineering grant |
Round Robin | Marianna:
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Liz Gushee
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