February 1, 2016

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017
3 min read

Attendees:

  • Ben, Penn State
  • Adrienne, Tufts
  • Kayla, Bentley, Michigan
  • Nathan and Eira, Cincinnati
  • Farrell, Duke
  • Jarrett, Princeton
  • Sarah, Chemical Heritage Foundation
  • Karen, WGBH
  • Julie, Indiana
  • Alexis, Princeton

Agenda:

  • Update from attendees:
    • Tufts:
      • Erin Faulder left, they are re-assessing priorities
      • Planning to migration to Fedora 4
      • Looking at implementing ASpace, Archivematica
    • Chemical Heritage Foundation:
      • Just went into production with Hydra
      • Archives just one part of a big digital repository
      • Wanting to integrate ASpace and Hydra, or at least get EAD into Blacklight
    • Cincinatti:
      • A number of things coming up this year; starting to look at a Hydra head for digitized collections
      • Want to support digital surrogates, born-digital, visual resource
      • Awaiting IT infrastructure
      • Looking at implementing ASpace and Archivematica; using Archivematica to package content for APTrust
      • Unsure of ASpace/Hydra data exchange
      • Starting to explore a digital preservation repository Hydra head
    • Duke:
      • Spun up a second instance of Fedora/Hydra on a protected data network; used to store Board of Trustees minutes with 50 year restriction; raised some issues with full-text index; server they were living on reached end of life
      • Developed a better looking interface for digitized content: repository.lib.duke.edu
      • Looking at getting identifiers out of Hydra and into ASpace
    • Indiana:
      • Hydra DAMS 2 – not actually placing media files in Fedora; adding pointers to Fedora instead
      • Bringing technical metadata into Fedora as well
      • Delivering finding aids via XTF with links to digital objects (METS navigator); would like to do something Hydra with this
      • 2d and 3d biological collections
    • Michigan:
      • Considering Hydra archives head collaboration; looking at developing Hydra head for displaying archival materials
      • Continuing to work on workflow integration project; completed getting functionality from ASpace into Archivematica appraisal tab; getting metadata into DSpace
      • Looking at using SWORD protocol to get data into the repository
      • Looking at how PREMIS rights are implemented in Archivematica; Rights in ASpace PREMIS-ish
    • Penn State:
      • ArchiveSphere worked paused, undergoing re-assessment
      • Repository for cultural heritage objects
    • Princeton:
      • Hired two new library developers
      • Focus likely to be on digitized collections
      • Implementing ASpace; looking at metadata requirements
    • WGBH:
      • Working on Hydra DAMS with Indiana; trying to include as much of PCDM as they can; won't be storing files in Fedora, but using to store pointers
      • Open Vault moved away from Hydra/Fedora and instead looking at Blacklight with a file store on the backend.
        • It was complicated: lack of documentation/staff turnover; lots of processing required; easier to start over
      • Moving AMS to Hydra
  • What is the role of HAIG:
    • Explore issues that could help advance things locally (e.g. finding aid delivery)
    • Free form mode works pretty well, but good to keep monthly meetings to check in with people; good opportunity to identify partners
    • Sharing demos, wire frames, use cases with each other; could ask non archivists to talk to us
      • Examples?
        • Scholar at UC
        • Bentley
        • Ben Armintor – Columbia
    • Does IG work feed back into Power Steering/Steering at all? How does this serve as a vehicle for communicating things to the larger Hydra community? **Ben will check with Karen**
      • Are there other IG/WGs doing things we should respond to?
        • How is the DPIG related?
          • Overlap with Archivematica–>Hydra
    • Reporting back to hydra-community on what we're doing
  • Some areas of interest include:
    • ArchivesSpace and Hydra integration (Artefactual, Michigan, Cincinatti, Penn State, Chemical Heritage Foundation)
      • Duke, Penn State, Chemical Heritage in production
      • Cincinatti, Michigan possibly in production soon
      • Princeton taking first steps (focus on accessions and digital objects)
      • Tufts looking at it too
    • Archivematica and Hydra integration (Artefactual, Cincinatti, Michigan, Penn State)
    • Mapping METS to PCDM (Artefactual, Duke)
    • Supporting PREMIS in Hydra (Artefactual, Michigan)
    • Rights metadata (Artefactual, Michigan)
    • EAD/Blacklight

Action Items:

  • Check on how IG efforts are fed back into Hydra org
  • Come up with list of possible demos for future meetings
  • Look into overlap with concerns of digital preservation interest group