| Item | Who | Notes |
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| DPN update | Ladd | - DPN now has 2 employees: president and CIO Sandy Payette from Cornell/Fedora/DuraSpace
- Local DPN news:
- name for UT node - Texas Preservation Node
- TDL working w/ TACC and UT Libraries on front end of DPN
- node ingest testing this summer, followed by more rigorous testing in fall, with plans for early 2015 soft rollout
- Costs to be developed over the year (likely not cheap at outset).
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| update | Sydney | - VRC collection (70K+ items) move from Liberal Arts to UT Libraries Islandora system.
- Mapping done, working on look and feel of cataloging tool, prepping data records for migration.
- Public facing interface will follow.
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| update | Lisa | - Lisa's position differs from Gabby's previous role at HRC - Lisa is working with born-digital materials only.
- HRC updates: new director, big changes coming.
- Current projects:
- Working on establishing new preservation, access, and management system
- Rehousing physical born-digital materials
- redoing donor forms
- email preservation project
- TSLAC grant, TBD, to address accessibility of HRC materials (includes 3D printing)
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| update | Jennifer H. | assisting with VRC project, DSpace 4 upgrade |
| update | Colleen | - DSpace 4 project in progress, on pause until webmaster position filled.
- MCS batch process improvements - new workflow forthcoming in the next month.
- New guideline: 100 or more files (even in one item) is a batch
- Working up new documentation for batch metadata editing
- Collaborating with TACC and ITS on data management at UT
- TDL working group prototyping a (data management?) tool for TDL members (forthcoming).
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| update | Melanie | - Refined local metadata guidelines for CONTENTdm
- UT Law Yearbooks 1960-1965 will be publicly available via our CONTENTdm site by the end of semester
- Software developer hiring status - cancelled position w/ plans to repost late summer; contracting w/ former developer in the meantime.
- Digital projects will slow down over summer in context of staffing changes and workspace renovations.
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| update | Jennifer L. | - Marisa Mendez Brady's APL project ongoing
- How to acquire and transfer course materials to library - culling inappropriate files. Ben Chang and Wendy Martin working on culling and developing material appraisal/culling guidelines
- Hiring metadata librarian - posting sometime in May; Hiring a digital archivist, late summer.
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| update | Brent | - Wrapping up pilot project - year long digitization/DSpace project
- Updating DSpace metadata input forms and scripting for output
- Looking to upgrade to Dspace 4
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| update | Esther | - Hoping to work towards use of Archivists’ Toolkit at Briscoe
- currently using Excel to EAD tool w/ macros as a stop gap solution
- Archivists' Toolkit looks to be a workable stepping stone towards archival management system of the future
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| update | Jessica | - Campus efforts towards web archiving policies (w/ Mary Rose Hightower-Coyle & Jenn Coast)
- Working with math archivist to archive content from Editorial Manager application
- GLIFOS batch edit tool in development. Folklore recordings/takedown policies/ethnomusicology collaboration
- UT Communications recently transferred born-digital video on DV tape and external hard drives - interesting new type of project which will yield new documentation, for anyone interested
- Webmaster position still pending; project management position for specific digitization project forthcoming
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| Discovery Garden updates | Ladd | - One sole-source Discovery Garden contract approved for Briscoe - Indigenous Language Archive
- CTL learning object repository in progress
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| Archivematica working group | Ladd, Lisa, Jennifer, Kathy | - Archivematica sandbox status: Installed on Amazon, looking for smallish group to test it in a 6-8 week timeframe. UT Libraries interested in hosting it if it works for many of us.
- Architecture/Planning Library is interested in being involved in testing.
- Archivematica documentation is hard to follow. Install and use are pretty straightforward; configuration is the labor-intensive. Check list-serv for tips on format prefs, connecting to CONTENTdm, etc.
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| Porter's visit | Jessica | Porter Olsen (of Bit Curator) will be here on 5/21-22, giving talk on 5/22 in iSchool - announcement forthcoming. |
| Campus cloud storage | Ladd | - Campus is moving towards Amazon as cloud strategy (ISO, etc, are on board)
- Amazon standards/compliance exceeds UT data center reqs
- Ladd has 6 mo. Amazon test bed
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| Campus streaming services | Ladd | - On campus committee for streaming strategies
- UT Libraries volunteer to host video-on-demand for campus, w/ campus help
- UT Libraries has manager for captioning service in place
- Wowza and Avalon media - also testing in Amazon soon
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