2020-06-08 Meeting notes (DAWG)

Date

Jun 4, 2020

Participants

  • @Steve Kutay

  • @Alyssa Loera (Unlicensed)

  • Elizabeth Blackwood

  • @Tanya Hollis (Unlicensed)

  • Erik Beck

  • Micheal Howser

  • Azalea Camacho

  • Eric Milenkiewicz

  • @David Walker

  • @Kevin Cloud (Unlicensed)

  • Welcome new members

  • Review group projects and assignments

  • Transition to next academic year

Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

5 min

Welcome new members/Introductions

All

  • Welcome Azalea Camacho (Cal State LA), Eric Milenkiewicz, (CSUSB)

20 min

Review Digital Collections Development Plan with David and Kevin

All

  • Walk through of DAMS Development Plan for Digital Collections.

  • Review ULMS Plan as template which includes risks, assumptions and constraints. Add these to plan.

  • Gather campus local workflow information on digitization practices and metadata schema applications. This will expedite the initiation of local metadata cleanup in advance of migrations and the production of shared workflows such as the metadata application profile. Campus self-assessments can be used to gather this local data..

  • Should the final plan be distributed via link through the Digrepo listserv?

5 min

Committee Orientation

 

5 min

Introduce Campus Self Assessment

Beth

Campus DAMS self evaluation

  • Inspired by DAM Maturity Model (Spreadsheet)

  • Helps both individual campuses and provides an overall assessment of needs across entire system.

  • Will include in the assessment form data required for producing shared digitization practices and metadata applications.

  • ZOOM meetings with individual campuses to guide through evaluation tool.

5 min

Introduce test server project

Steve, Alyssa, Beth

  • CSUN, CPP, CSUCI to create test servers. CSUSM now trying to work toward a test installation.

  • Focused only on Samvera/Hyrax 2.6.

  • Consider installing through virtual machines if no dedicated IT or other Tech support. Alyssa considering Reclaim Hosting.

  • Share code base among test installations and leverage other work of Notch 8 for test environments.

  • Consider advantages and disadvantages of consistent module integration and configurations for all systems. Do we want to take this opportunity to have selected differences in system configurations in order to best assess performance?

5 min

Introduce DAMS evaluation form

Steve

DAMS performance evaluation tool using functional requirements.

5 min

Introduce Samvera/Fedora for preservation study

Erik

  • An investigation is underway to identify preservation management tasks available to the shared DAMS as configured

  • A workflow and tutorial of recommended preservation tasks available to Samvera and associated technologies could be a deliverable of this investigation.

2 min

Introduce Repository communication lists

Steve

5 min

Committee annual transition matters

All

  • New members will consider which projects to commit their time

  • Meetings will continue to be held on the second Monday of the month at 1 pm.

  • Meetings will continue at a minimum of 1 meeting per month. Will consider ad hoc meetings as needed in order to expedite task completion.

  • Will continue to use Confluence as primary project management app, but will consider others such as Trello, should the need arise. Will also look into how lesser known Confluence management applications could be applied.

3 min

Other news or announcements

All

None

Action items

Decisions