Digital Repositories Committee : 2020-06-02 Meeting notes

7m

Announcements

Carmen Mitchell (Unlicensed)

• We are joined today by incoming working group chairs, Alyssa and Lia.

• Julie Dinkins from Sonoma added to Metadata Working group as a late entry.

• From previous meeting: CSU journals do fall within the IR Content scope.

• New direpo@lists.calstate.edu listerv will be announced soon.

• Welcome to Daina! Thank you to Elizabeth!

10m

Review the committee charge

Carmen Mitchell (Unlicensed)

• We may have fallen off of COLD’s radar a bit.

• Will connect with incoming COLD chair, Carlos, and incoming ScholCom chair, Mark, to make sure there is regular reporting from DRC to COLD, and vice-versa.

• An annual report to COLD Exec should be useful.

10m

DAWG Update

Steve Kutay (Unlicensed)

• Project plan for digital collections implementation - (Alyssa, Tanya, Michael).

  • David and Kevin to attend the next DAWG meeting to discuss progress, work out details.

• Campus DAMS self evaluation (Elizabeth)

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

  • Considering ZOOM meeting with individual campuses to guide through evaluation tool.

  • Good to develop a culture of contributing to development.

• 1 to 3 Test servers (Steve, Alyssa, Elizabeth).

  • Enables testing of workflows, modules, metadata, and configurations.

  • Northridge server application underway.

    • Exploring the possibility of virtual machines which could be used as proof of concept to mobilize IT assistance for expanded service.

  • Pomona looking into Reclaim Hosting.

  • Carmen offered San Marcos as a possible option.

  • Trying to open test environments up to other campuses.

  • Evaluation tool (in progress) maps functional requirements and exposes areas of needed development.

• Investigation into preservation services development possible though DAMS (Erik).

10m

MWG Update

Elyse Fox (Unlicensed)

• Lia is the new Chair.

• Joined by Julie Dinkins (Sonoma), Hema Ramachandran (Long Beach), Melissa Seelye (San Francisco).

• A full working group now!

• Reviewing metadata for DAWG

  • Will be making initial recommendations by 6/5

  • Metadata here is broader than for IR

  • Data will be coming from more diverse systems than IR

• Decision made to remove FAST from subject field

• Will consider more discipline-based facets and discipline-specific authorities.

10m

Grant options?

Carmen Mitchell (Unlicensed)

• From our 2020-05-05 Meeting notes.

• Cyril (Humboldt) was interested in looking into this.

• Patrick and Carmen will meet to discuss.

2m

Meeting time for next year

Carmen Mitchell (Unlicensed)

• Does this time work for the next year? Or do we need to shift to another time? (CM will send out a new batch of meeting invites starting with the July meeting.)