Date
Attendees
- Wendy Martin
- Katie Pierce Meyer
- Stauber, Elizabeth
- Ashley Adair
- Hightower-Coyle, Maryrose
- Marianna Symeonides
Agenda
Guest Speaker (2:30-3ish): Euan Cochrane, Digital Preservation Manager at Yale University
- Discuss meeting format and trading notetaker position
- Discuss group priorities for the spring and summer semesters
- CAMPUS COLLABORATIONS:
- Peer TRAC reviews - or starting to talk about what that might take
- Digital preservation documentation repository?
- Policy swap? Policy writing session?
- Laura Waugh is now here at TDL - reach out to her
- 2nd Annual UT Digital Preservation Symposium - A&M participation
- A & M - Sarah Potvin, Sean, Julie (Digital Preservation staff)
- morning - information exchange about digital scholarship
- afternoon - Information exchange about digital preservation
- A & M - Sarah Potvin, Sean, Julie (Digital Preservation staff)
- GUEST SPEAKER LINE UP:
- Suggestions for faculty or staff panels?
- TOOL TESTING:
- Last semester, Archive-It was suggested for a possible tool evaluation. I will make arrangements with an Archive-It rep for training and trial evaluation accounts this spring once we have a count of how many folks might be interested. If there are strong feelings/opinions out there about other tools that you want to test. Please let us know. In the meantime, check out these web archiving posts and projects
- Round Robin
Discussion items
| 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 |