"Study Hall" - silent review of printed agenda, making notes, getting in the zone
Round Robin Updates (3 per attendee)
Melanie:
2 months at UT Libs
supporting non-MARC metadata practice: assessing existing practice; looking towards the future (Islandora, BIBFRAME)
DPOC, DCIT
Katie:
2 months as APL Librarian;
digital humanities environmental scan (Architecture);
UTDR/UTSOA video preservation
Jessica:
metadata crosswalking to MODS for digital collections;
Preserving UTexas submitting a proposal; ASMP Software Systems
volunteer to make contact with Fine Arts and Engineering to investigate their CDOs (we should probably decide how many different groups we want to target in our sample - 4-5 domains may reveal 75% of the major challenges for all domains creating CDOs)
Esther:
Updates to Atom 2.1, some increased functionality
MARC export may be forthcoming
Fonds and Bonds
Adam
Reflectance transformation imaging stuff
Archaeology data management group meeting
UG CS student working on metadata extraction tool, Linked Data
Recap of highlights/action items from last month's meeting
environmental scan of complex objects on campus
lit review, developing interview questions, recap of convo w/ Dr. Galloway, work sessions in December?
Discussion items
Item
Who
Notes
Round Robins
Adam
Archeology data management group meeting met and they had Dena Reed from Archeology, Art History, Jonathan Jarves, Adam, Jessica Trologin, Brian Roberts, Texas Archeologyal research lab
They discussed challenges - mainly places to store it and in terms of archiving and dlong term publication strategies
They came up with the list of the items they had and what they were creation
They decided to write up a paper about what exactly they want to do - what the ADMG wants as outcomes
Ladd was present at that meeting
There was follow-up from Denee: we'll what kind of legs it has but everyone was interested and it was clear that they all share these issues about their data sets
Other archaeologists are interested in seeing solutions once they've been tried
Reflectance transformation imaging - allows you to take an object with surface relief with changing light source, and creates a single file where you can dynamically predisposition the light
this creates original raw photos
color corrected photos
project file in complex directory structure
increasing amount of computational photography
2 big categories of data from the meeting were giant amount of photographs that take their meaning from databases and GIS data
Michael Thomas - and John Clarke (Ontopolis born-digital project)
They still don't have a preservation plan
Large and complex thing, database they don't know what to do with
reference files "transactional data"
3d model that integrates original data and database
Complex relational database
Digital lab notebook will be happening in the spring where metadata can be added to the reflectance imaging images on the fly
There was a group that is trying to make low-cost dome lights for this projects
Highlight ITI - the software uses the highlight on the sphere to calculate the light which allows you to calculate the normal - so you can figure out other lighting options dynamically
If Adam can procure a low-cost dome, there imaging activities would increase considerable
Metadata extraction tools for the archeology digital images (outputting Dublin Core)
D3
working alpha-level prototype by the end of the semester
possible demo or presentation by Adam's student
can do a check on the Dublin Core that is being created - does it need to be Dublin Core - how are they getting descriptive elements by extracting info from the image itself
Any of those faculty members from the management group would be willing
Jessica Trologin for staff
Michael Thomas is not faculty but
John Clarke will be around in the Spring (Ontoplis project or the ICA digital projects - Joe Carter)
Growing pains related to building capacity for creating more stuff but not matching that in terms of grasping cost projections for long term storage and access (I/O)
tDAR pricing scheme core.tdar.org
OpenContext platform manages data in a more complex fashion - California, publication platform stored in CDL
Carolina Digital Library has some archaeological data in something that looks like DSpace
But many of the repositories being used vary widely in terms of the cost associated with storage and access
Heurist - the University of Sydney is being used by the Federated Archaeological Data Management System (Android-based collecting platforms)
Poke Adam about contacting faculty
Katie
Architecture and Planning Librarian through January 2015
Working on contemporary practice in architectural record production (studio)
Digital Scholarship group environmental scan has been proposed and there is some overlap with that and what we are trying to do
She has been thinking about the best way to gather that information in the school of architecture in the same way that Adam pulled together the data management group
Currently working on a project with the VRC and School of Architecture - trying to preserve born-digital video content created through the school, ingest into UTDR
Book nook - a place to highlight publications by students and faculty and Katie is thinking about a digital component (web design for access portal and the exhibit approach)
Audiences - taking general archiving and digital preservation principles and framing them in the context of a specific domain > rolling that back into making a case for preservation
CDO Environmental scan is about getting their value statements, how their work is valued by others
If we are talking about doing this with faculty - value is especially important because value translates to the yes/no of tenure
Jessica
We could potentially in this group - discuss and compare notes with about cost projections for storage and access
important to factor in cost projections for complex digital objects in the environmental scan, or how people are thinking about storage
Melanie
Data management group for architecture - the CDO Environmental Scan might be a lead in from that