2013-12-06 Meeting Notes DPIG

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
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
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!
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
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
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
Update	Michael	attended recent vendor demos of streaming services being considered for campus-wide offering
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
Update	Jennifer	ArchivesSpace eval still ongoing - show & tell in Spring 2014? now working in UT Libraries' Integration Services unit
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.

Action Items

Schedule next meeting for 1.5 hours
Spring demos by Jennifer (ArchivesSpace), Aaron (VRC cataloging in Islandora/Fedora), DPN (Ladd)