November 7, 2016

Attendees:

• Erin Faulder from Cornell (convener)
• Nathan from U of Cincinnati 
• Farrell from Duke
• John from NLM
• Krista from U Alberta
• Eira from U of Cincinnati
• Mike, Max, Dallas from Bentley 
• Adrienne from Tufts
• Wendy from Georgia Tech
• Betsy from Boston College

 

Proposed Agenda:

• SAA 2016 Meeting
• HydraConnect 2016 Hydra Archivists Meeting
• Checking in with others? Is it useful
  • Yes. Especially since the conversation is broadening. 
• Checking in:
  • Cornell: early stages of implementing a number of systems
  • U of Alberta: developing Hydra North that was initially going be a "catch-all" repository. But realizing they need a deep storage with minimal access, one ingest path from archives into this dark repository. Going to use Archivematica for ingest. AtoM for CMS
  • U of Cincinnati: One self-submission repository for faculty/staff IR. Second hydra head to replace number of repositories to support archives, digital collections, visual resources, and university archives and records. Paused because of active development for mediation deposit and Sufia. 
  • Harvard Medicine: put stuff from Luna in blacklight this past summer.
  • NLM: digitized manuscripts ingested into Fedora 3.8. Not using Hydra yet.
  • Tufts: implemented ASpace, rebuilding finding aids in Digital Library. Testing Archivematica and looking into Preservica for possible integration. Mapping for testing Fedora 4 migrations, but waiting for F4 to settle down.
  • Bentley: ASpace-Archivematica-DSpace integration grant done, so finalizing it. Newspaper project that uses Blacklight and Solr (125 years of student newspaper). Next year, move from DSpace and DLXS to Hydra.
  • Georgia Tech: Working with ArcLight project. Currently implementing ASpace. Thinking about access and discovery and pain points. Not using Hydra currently, but wants to be involved with the community. Looking at hosted Hydra in a Box (migrating from DSpace).
• ArcLight update (Wendy and Mike)
  • Project to create discovery interface for archival information using Blacklight, using metadata from ASpace. As yet unclear whether data exchange is through EAD or directly to ASpace database. Possibly able to pull metadata from different sources (not just archival CMS). Focus is on getting data into Solr schema that drives the blacklight interface.
  • ArcLight. There is also a google drive somewhere.
  • Currently distilling personas out of the report
  • Then wire frames and a list of user reports. Then hopefully built! Michigan is prepared to devote development resources. 
  • What impact will new ASpace user interface have on this project?
• Defining the group's direction:
  • Archives 101 for non-archivists at Virtual HydraConnect?
    • Nathan volunteers to work with others: Tufts archivists, Eira
  • Collaboration between digital preservation interest group
    • Other Tufts archivist, Linda Newman at UC, reads notes
    • Once there's a new convener, talk about what each group is doing. Maybe have the convener's call in to the other meetings.
    • Interested in the data modeling connecting point. 
  • Data modeling archival data example
    
    • Michigan modeling bags?
    • Small group to look at modeling archival data (with research data?)
  • Systems and functional activities survey
    • What does what function?
    • Could be large in scope, requiring grant funding?
    • Needs to have workflow documentation to try and articulate it for the survey. 
• Once hydra in a box is in the wild, are we going to see a large uptick in archival users in Hydra community?
  • Hydra-in-a-box still unlikely to be install and go. Will require customization.
• People are hacking our descriptive systems.