Minutes DPG conference call March 2016

Date/Time: March Tuesday 15, 2016 @ 10:00 AM PDT, 1:00 EDT, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET

Agenda & Notes

1. Roll call and additional agenda items

   1. Attendees: Margaret Peachy (Tufts), Heidi Dowding, Nik Dragovic (Emory University), Emily Porter (Emory University), Chris Awre (University of Hull), Christen Hedegaard, Claus Jensen

   2. Moderator: Christen Hedegaard

   3. Notetaker: Claus Jensen

2. Any comments to the minutes from last Skype conference meeting.

   1. No comments

3. Status of proposed Work Groups (Chris Awre)

   • Hydra Premis Working Group

   • Hydra PCDM and Digital Preservation Working Group

   • Hydra Preservation Actions Working Group

     • Emory University and Indiana University would like to join all three work groups

     • Chris will promote the work groups at LibDevConX and the Hydra Power Steering Group meeting

     • Chris has given a presentation about Hydra and in that connection also introduced the three work groups at a meeting in the Czech republic

     • We will decide which work groups to go forward with at the next meeting

4. Ongoing Digital Preservation activities

   1. JISC phase 2 project report for Research Data Spring project "Filling the Digital Preservation Gap" (Chris Awre)

      1. It has been decided to go forward with phase 3 of the JISC project looking further at Archivematica and contributing new file formats from research data to PRONOM

5. Next Meeting
   

   1. April the 12th. Going forward the meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of the month

6. Any Other Business