Meeting Notes

Meeting notes for the UT Metadata Steering Committee are listed below, organized descending by month and year.


2024

January

presented completed environmental scan diagrams, discussed project to update harmful subject terms in Primo, planned conclusion of environmental scan work for February

February

final edits on environmental scan narrative, discussion of findings and recommendations from environmental scan, chose three recommendations to work on for the year

March

discussion of recommendations from environmental scan, specifically decision tree for ingesting assets/descriptive metadata

April

discussion of draft decision trees, including how to structure and utilize feedback
Maycanceled
Junediscussion of draft decision trees
July
August
September
October
November
December


2023

January

introduction to Steering Committee charge, goals, and updates on similar projects throughout the libraries
Februarybrainstorming/discussion on first major project, conducting an environmental scan of metadata creation processes across the libraries
Marchdiscussed additions/changes to current environmental scan spreadsheet, enriching existing information before sharing with identified stakeholders for review
Aprildiscussed state of environmental scan spreadsheet, planned logistics for informational interviews with stakeholders, interviews taking place in June
Mayreviewed and gave updates on environmental scan project; planned subjects scan
Junereviewed and gave updates on environmental scan project; planned subjects form as follow-up to scan

July

reviewed and gave updates on environmental scan project; drafted form for subjects/authorities scan
Augustdiscussed and chose options for data visualization/graphing environmental scan data

September

reviewed draft data visualizations, discussed main questions we want to explore/answer from scan data, reviewed authorities scan form
Octobercanceled, to provide more time for working on authorities scan and narrative for environmental scan

November

reviewed environmental scan narrative and existing graphs/data visualizations, plotted out rest of work with January due date; brief discussion of Alma authorities
Decembercanceled, to provide more time for working on authorities scan and narrative for environmental scan