Date
06 December 2013
Location
conference room in the PCL administrative suite (3.204)
Attendees
Melanie Cofield
Jennifer Hecker
- Carlos Ovalle
- Ladd Hanson
- Aaron Choate
- Jessica Meyerson
- Amy Bowman
- Colleen Lyon
Michael McFarlin
Agenda
- usual round of intros, updates, including professional development recaps
possible Islandora demo - overview of campus streaming services products under review (Wowza, etc.)
Discussion Items
Item | Who | Notes |
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Update | Carlos | - DSpace 3 production upgrade
- iSchoolers continuing to work with Alexander Architectural Archive materials
- Carlos, Jessica Meyerson, and Zach Vowell (formerly of Briscoe Center) accepted to present at SAA on software preservation
- Carlos presenting w/ Georgia Harper to Benson on Google Books outcome/access to scans
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Update | Ladd | - DSpace 4 updates = major changes, especially to interface
- beta testing DSpace 3 curation/replication tasks by this Winter break: push button, send to DPN nodes
- invited to join MOOC committee on campus: sub-committee on digital asset management
- OSTP mandate, SHARE interface - June 2014
- UT System signed w/ HathiTrust - content being sent over now!
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Update | Aaron | - moving VRC cataloging (DASE) to Islandora/Fedora - maybe demo in Jan-Feb 2014
- EdX Consortium meeting at MIT: content management, MOOCS, roles of libraries - where to put assets before landing in e-course systems to preserve, enable re-use?
- Coalition for Networked Information meeting this weekend
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Update | Jessica | - Briscoe in process of gathering documentation for Discovery Garden assessment (including budget), timeline TBD
- tweaking metadata standards, looking at MODS
- interviewing for Digital Archivist position before Winter break
- seeking collaborators to work "born digital" language into policy docs and deeds of gift
- working on email archives project with UT records management officer Maryrose Hightower Coyle
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Update | Colleen | - looking forward to DSpace 4 upgrade
- recent faculty uploads to UTDR = exciting!
- new strategy for more efficient batch uploads handled by Colleen: metadata first
- invited by Dean Hendrickson to talk about data management resources at faculty meeting - interest in wide promo, scaling up
- digital asset management a hot topic
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Update | Michael | - attended recent vendor demos of streaming services being considered for campus-wide offering
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Update | Melanie | - preservation reformatting of a/v cassettes in archives
- need for shared "temp" storage (staging & processing)
- UT Law yearbook digitization project planned for Spring 2014, to be delivered via CONTENTdm. Group suggestions: get ahead of take-down requests with clear policy.
- seeing increasing need to archive websites. Recommendations? General consensus on tools/methods available: nothing is perfect, Archive-It best option. Build archive strategies into existing publishing/content management process?
- sessions on digital library assessment at Digital Library Federation forum helpful for early stages of planning digital library program and policies at Tarlton
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Update | Jennifer | - ArchivesSpace eval still ongoing - show & tell in Spring 2014?
- now working in UT Libraries' Integration Services unit
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Streaming Services Taskforce Summary | Aaron, Michael | - Echo 360 and MediaSite = course capture, active UT Austin user community
- Sharestream = only one to promote handling of metadata, standout product for asset management and distribution
- Kaltura = primarily a live stream service, integrated into Canvas
- Wowza = behind GLIFOS and Echo360, proof that streaming can be done w/out huge investment. LAITS, UT Libraries, and iSchool are using it.
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Action Items
- Schedule next meeting for 1.5 hours
- Spring demos by Jennifer (ArchivesSpace), Aaron (VRC cataloging in Islandora/Fedora), DPN (Ladd)
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