2024-01-17 Meeting notes

 Date

Jan 17, 2024

 Participants

  • Andrew Weiss

  • Carmen Mitchell

  • @David Walker

  • Steve Kutay

  • Nicole Shibata

  • Erik Beck

  • Tim Fluhr

  • Matt Martin

 Goals

 

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

5m

CO Updates

David

  • upgrade to hyrax 3.6; for ScholarWorks & digital archives;

  • historical usage stats for ScholarWorks; views and downloads for each item; visible in each record for users to view as well;

  • campus views per campus;

  • metadata in ScholarWorks: facets around file type

    • text, audio, video, etc.

    • disentangle file formats from nature of content;

5m

Digital Repositories Annual Meeting Update

All

  • Call for proposals: send out ASAP; shorter turnaround;

  • Details:

    • Venue: San Marcos

      • June 18 DATE SET; one day hybrid

      • fees (direct transfer to SM), $30-35/person est. (parking fees too) in-person

      • cap at 45 attendees in-person; no online cap;

    • cf. Digital Repositories Annual Meeting Planning Document

    • QUESTION: speakers from other campuses nearby; interested in opening up for outside CSU? Keynotes?, etc. (no funds for honoraria…)

      • CSU speakers, etc.

      • CDL:

      • Keynotes: can attract a good audience; improve the schedule;

      • Names and topics to Carmen;

      • Single track program;

10m

Working group updates

WG liason

 

10m

Collaborative metadata cleanup

Carmen

  • simple metadata clean-ups needed from some campuses

    • some campuses lagging; staffing and expertise issues; solution: to pair up, but also take it on and finish it;

    • buddy systems are useful for learning the work but not useful if the bandwidth for the work isn’t there…

    • automation?

    • Using open forums to announce blanket changes, etc.

15m

Goals / projects

All

 

Parking Lot

 

  • Future goals

    • Faculty submissions

    • Workflows

    • Interoperability between platforms

    • Identifying ongoing funding / revenue sources and models

 Action items

  • Review TRAC metrics: each person’s assigned element in the TRAC review; (2 each)

  • Send out the call for proposals;

 Decisions