April 6, 2015

Attendees:

• Gary, Michael from Stanford
• Justin, Artefactual
• Ben, Penn State
• Max, Dallas from Bentley
• Eira, Nathan from Cincinatti
• John, NLM
• Wendy, GA Tech
  

Proposed Agenda:

• Review of discussions and activity at LDCX, including:
• Large session on archives and ArcLight: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qmAGUi-t555ynm8S6OP9WN0GuK26NgZGSPEefAvDqJg/edit 
• Smaller session focused on positioning archives and archivists to engage with software development: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GYyqvfKV_COww0YR3ob_umSVKidSTfzdOsANIPjN0u0/edit
• Draft of a reference diagram for a disk image in the Portland Common Data Model: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1NnNerYvaez7nRWlJwcIK0hTg_6t1h01PwrY_I3_xdBs/edit
• Possible update on ArcLight?
• Introduce Mike, Max, Dallas from University of Michigan (tentative)

Minutes:

• Needs to be more of a presence for this group at SAA. SAA may be putting up a pop-up session proposal. Could also try exploring these at certain roundtables or sessions. 
  
  • Also maybe get a meeting at SAA 
  • April 23rd CurateCAMP in Brooklyn
• PCDM Disk Image diagram discussion
  • Went through the Google diagram
  • Another use case from Michael at Stanford: Software rendered as a WAV file
    • Similar to electronic art use case at Cornell
  • Michael will share a blog post explaining this better
  • Are there other types of content we might model?
  • Michael also mentioned the need to model emulation software as part of the modeling
  • Nathan asked about relationships between objects within collections, how this gets turned into a usable whole collection with defined relationships by end-users. 
    • ArcLight thinking about this to some degree.
    • What is the system of record for metadata? Reconciling what we do with a repo vs what we do in an archival collection mgmt system.
• Michigan's work analogous to the PDCM work
  • Overview:
    • Mellon grant to create end-to-end digital archives workflow
    • Started with DSpace, but in longer term looking at a repo-agnostic workflow
    • Artefactual did a site visit in January; came up with a workflow for objects received on physical media
    • Transfer/ingest in Archivematica – interaction with Accession record in ArchivesSpace
    • Drag and drop to resource records in ASpace – populating from Archivematica arrangement and description tab. 
  • Conversations at U-M very similar to conversations in HAIG
  • Space setup in ArchivesSpace JIRA for this work – some documentation will go there.
  • Trying to figure out how much description to have where – repo, ASpace
    • Intellectual arrangement
  • Lesson learned from HathiTrust – would rather point to descriptive metadata rather than incorporate it
• Linked data – who's doing what
  • Cincinatti looking at EAC project
  • Topic for future call?
  • Developers/technologists are interested in this.
  • Recent pubs on linked data that might be of interest (thanks Nathan!):
    • https://sites.tufts.edu/liam/
    • http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10978.
    • http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=3450
• ArcLight
  • 2015 is just design
  • Interview process is ongoing; would still like interviews from institutions over the next couple of months – end of May
  • GA Tech doing some interviews – everyone else throw down!
• Where else to seek involvement?
  • DLF
  • regionals?
  • RAC at SAA?
  • What are the implications of Hydra-in-a-Box?