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1:00

Repositories comte report

Steve

• 2020-01-07 Meeting notes

Other comte reports

Open

1:10

Campus repository personnel registry

All

• Campus Repository Personnel Registry (draft)

• Comte agrees to have both IR registry and digital archives to avoid confusion

• Formally share registry with Repository Committee and ScholarWorks end of January for feedback.

1:25

Joint Meeting Schedule with MWG

Steve

• MWG meets 3rd Thursday @ 2pm

• Quarterly 1-hour joint meetings with DAWG

• MWG and DAWG to present at open Scholarworks ScholarWorks meetings for interest groups.

1:30

Assistance with MWG subject support survey

All

• MWG Subject Support Survey development

• Challenges experienced with FAST headings for self submissions

• DAWG to add give feedback on questions relevant to digital collections workflows.

1:45

Policies on accessibility in digital collections

Steve

Tanya

Alyssa

Michael

• Accessible digital archives is different than IRs.

• Remediation can be even more time-consuming for digital collections, requiring more Total accessibility for digitized documents requires many tasks and manual fixes, and is often impossible not possible for complex documents that challenge technological performance.

• What are policies for other campus' digital collections?

• Should we consider a shared base policy on document accessibility for digital collections? Will view this topic as it develops at project manager’s and other meetings.

• Consider placing accessibility instructions in item level metadata? For example, “On demand” instructions.

• Best practice for geographic access: GPS coordinates vs. geographic subject headings. GPS not useful for specific locations with no registered coordinates within a database.