Minutes DPG Skype conference December 2014

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

Date/Time: December Thursday 11, 2014 @ 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 Noon EST, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET

Agenda & Notes

  1. Roll call and additional agenda items
    1. Attendees:
      1. University of Hull: Chris Awre
      2. Royal Library of Copenhagen: Claus Jensen, Christen Hedegaard
    2. Moderator: Proposal: Christen Hedegaard
    3. Notetaker: Proposal Claus Jensen
  2. Any comments to the minutes from the Hydra Connect 2 meeting and minutes from last Skype conference meeting.
    1. No comments.
  3. Update of Charter for DPG
  4. Ongoing Digital Preservation activities
    1. University of Hull, London
      1. Report from conference ‘Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future’ (DPC and 4C)

        1. Chris reported on a successful DPC/4C workshop with the focus on collaboration within Digital Preservation. At the workshop it was desisted to make a forum on collaboration within Digital Preservation. The idea is to have an ongoing discussion during a week for 6 consecutive weeks with new topic each week.

        2. DPC awards now on DPC’s web page, one of the winders was the Emulation project from University of Freiburg.

    2. The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark:
      1. Status of ePub and pdf characterisation
      2. Status of the Hydra implementation

        1. New versions of the administration and preservation platforms are being release tested next week, after which they will go into production.

      3. A new interest group on emulation has been started under The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF).

    3. <Please insert:> Name of institution: Activity
  5. Update of DPG tasklist
  6. OPF Digital Preservation Community Survey
    1. Hull plans to fill out the OPF survey within the near future.
  7. Next Meeting(s)?
    1. Proposal: Skype call meeting the second Thursday of each month
  8. Any Other Business

    1. University of York have started an UK interest group on Archivematica which has links to Hydra.

    2. Hull plans to investigate how Hydra and Archivematica can work together within the near future.