2016-02-04 Meeting notes DPIG

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

Cameron - Director of Technology at Dell Medical School, ask him about the LIFT grant

TACC grant - Natural Hazard Engineering end-to-end system, they do alot of simulation work - they have these modeling programs simulating all of those things: and they brought in a bunch of domain scientists to gather user requirements for scientists on the project; a big thing that kept coming up was which version of AdCirc will be supported for that so mabye the appropriate way to address that is mabye Emulation as a Service as part of the stack for the engineering grant

Marianna:

• WAG group - centrally funded archiving service to refine the proposal, possibly share that with the group

Maryrose:

• Part of the data management committee is talking about more active management of our institutional data; identifying our legal responsibilities for retention of our data; they published a document called "data standards"
• Spoke to web pub lunch recently about their records as university records and historically valuable

Elizabeth

• Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Archivist full time
• She has been working to create both physical and digital archive - she is building it from scratch and trying to gather all the project files about the project they funded over the last 15 years, gather that together and put it some

Liz Gushee

• They are working on Archive-It
• They may have a visit from Porter in the spring to discuss digital forensics and whether he would give an informal talk about MITH, give us a demo
• Would it be good for Porter Olsen to come around the digital preservation symposium
• Everyone fill out the survey on file naming conventions - Liz will send link and we
• Moving from one-off projects to a more standardized program, making flowchart
• DAMTF - DAMS Action Team