December 1, 2014

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

Attendees:

  • Cincinatti: Eira and Nathan
  • Stanford: Michael and Gary
  • Penn State: Ben and Mike
  • Yale: Mark
  • Duke: Matthew

Agenda: 

  • ArcLight update
    • Status on the call for interest:
      • 6-8 expressions, including: Cincinatti, Penn State, Natl Lib Medicine, Tufts, Cornell,Getty, GA Tech, Duke (Duke might be working in parallel to ArcLight)
      • Interest in: design collaboration; objectives; use cases. 
    • Ready to start the design process. Next steps:
      • Setup a mailing list for people interested in the design process
      • Have the design process group talk about goals, deliverables for different stages of the process
      • Setup share for documents, ideas, etc.
      • Setup a publicly visible page to chart their progress
      • Once this infrastructure is setup, they expect activity to ramp up in January
      • Experiment in collaborative design process
      • Possibly collect institutional requirements before the holidays
      • For institutions interested in ArcLight, develop 1-2 page description of what their objectives for ArcLight are.
    • Question about ArcLight stand-alone vs ArcLight in coordination with ASpace public interface
      • Stanford sees this as one potential use case
      • No current plans by ASpace to work on public interface (on the to-do list)
    • Duke's finding aids
      • digital repository shares codebase with finding aid platform; effort underway to update both
    • Cincinatti finding aids
      • Uses OhioLink finding aid repository (XTF) for FA delivery
      • Using ASpace in a sandbox but no plans to go operational
      • Would love to contribute testing on ArcLight
    • Stanford's finding aids
      • Aspace test instance – testing migrations
      • Deliver finding aids through OAC/CDL – will continue contributing, but would like to develop FAs through integrated library services too
      • Killed XTF experiment
    • Penn State
      • Operational with ASpace now
      • Publishing finding aids using HTML
  • User stories webinar
    • Will get some slots from Rose and post a Doodle poll
    • Post to all of Hydra
    • Maureen from Yale to share one archivist's view on developing user stories
  • Future agenda items:
    • What other pain points between developers and librarians might we explore?
    • Where is the overlap between digital preservation working group?
  • Might schedule an ArcLight call in two weeks, depending on where Stanford is.