Minutes DPG conference September 2015

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Jun 16, 2017
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Date/Time: September Thursday 10, 2015 @ 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 Noon EST, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CEST

Agenda & Notes

  1. Roll call and additional agenda items
    1. Attendees:Peter Chan, Heidi Dowding, Sarah Walden, Chris Awre, 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. Presentation and discussion of different main strategies for long term preservation. Use case: Preservation of mails 
    1. Preservation of enviroment: Peter Chan from Stanford will present his ideas for preserving mails in an emulated environment containing ePADD including mail account.
      1. Peter first gave a short presentation of the ePADD system. After this Peter told us how he had used WMware to transform a physical machine into a virtual machine, after which he presented the result of the transformation.
    2. Preservation of objects: KB-DK will present a strategy for preserving desired mail accounts as objects and handling of metadata in a Hydra system
      1. See the Hydra system at KB-DK
      2. See the proposal for Mail Preservation workflow
        1. according to KB-DK's Digital Preservation Strategy (see section 4.1 Ingest) 
      3. See KB's current datamodel
      4. See draft for handling of mail metadata
        1. Christen and Claus presented the KB-DK ideas for preserving and managing mail accounts and the objects they contain.
  4. Hydra Connect meeting: Presentation of ppt for the 5 minute slot during the conference to report back on the Hydra Preservation Interest Group’s activities. (Chris Awre)
    1. See proposal for ppt
    2. See Hydra and digital preservation session on Sessionizer website 
      1. Chris encouraged all to sign up for the Hydra and digital preservation session.
  5. Discussion of the Scope & Objectives for the Hydra Digital Preservation Interest Group.
  6. Ongoing Digital Preservation activities
    1. University of Hull
    2. The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark:
    3. <Please insert:> Name of institution: Activity
  7. Next Meeting
    1. October the 8th
      1. Review of the Hydra Connect meeting
  8. Any Other Business
    1. None