March 8, 2019

March 8, 2019



Samvera Partners Call

Friday, March 8, 2019

11:30 am  |  Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-05:00)  |  1 hr 





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737 192 431 

Meeting password:

h9cwrT45



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Date

Mar 8, 2019

Facilitator: Ryan Steans

Note Taker: Andrew Rouner

Attendees

  • @arouner WUSTL

  • @Richard Green

  • @rsteans

  • @Esmé Cowles (Princeton University Library)

  • @Mike Korcynski (Tufts)

  • @Carolyn Caizzi

  • @Franny Gaede & @Cornish (University of Oregon)

  • @Daniel Coughlin (Penn State)

  • @Simeon Warner (Cornell)

  • @Karen Cariani  (WGBH)

  • @Maria Whitaker  (Indiana University)

  • @Julie Allinson (CoSector - University of London)

  • @Chris Awre (Hull)

  • @Charlotte Nunes Charlotte Nunes (Lafayette)

  • @Nora Zimmerman (Lafayette)

  • @Stuart Kenny (Digital Repository of Ireland)

  • @Marconi, Tim (UC San Diego)

  • @Glen Horton (Deactivated) (Cincinnati)

Discussion items

Heads-Up - Vision/ Strategy Planning at Partners in Indianapolis - Carolyn Caizzi & Hannah Frost

Reminder to submit additional agenda items for the Partner meeting:  due date is 29 March 2019, EOB - Margaret Mellinger

Avalon Forum - March 13th https://www.avalonmediasystem.org/avalon-forum

Virtual Connect Update

Standing item:  Anything for/from Steering

Roadmap Council



Notes

  • Welcome Rachel Lynn from DCE 

  • Carolyn--Heads-Up - Vision/ Strategy Planning at Partners

    • asked for a place for "visioning exercise" in small groups to create shared vision statement

    • shared vision is a vehicle for creating a shared meaning

    • finding the org's meaning for existence to shift us from reactive to creative viz. "Learning Organization"

    • what about people not attending?  There will be discussion of other ways for people not making the meeting to input

  • Margaret–Reminder to add more agenda items 

    • Jeremy and MM will connect around Mar 29 to set timing of items on meeting

    • believe the time for exercise will be 3 hours

  • Question: there is remote participation for partner meeting via Zoom?

    • Yes

    • Esme volunteered to try to facilitate remote participation in small group exercise

  • local development updates?

    • Valkyrie--Esme–work to make it easier to use in Hyrax

    • reducing dependencies

    • Valkyrie 2.0 release will come out later this year

    • just yesterday a new V. storage adapter using Shrine for cloud storage options "the NU whole team!"

  • Avalon forum monthly 30 min forum

    • cover adoption at local orgs etc.

    • March 13 topics: work w/ Archivematica, and about "Timeliner" tool

    • tool ready by end of this month

    • Timeliner is a visual tool to help analyze (audio?) files, a visual aid for learning in music

  • Virtual Connect update–from Ryan

    • 27 proposals, many long 

    • meeting weekly to sort proposals

    • will be over 2 day period, may run longer per day than original planned

    • John Cameron using IU Zoom for dissemination

  • Steering–Richard

    • nothing from Steering

    • and welcome back!

  • Roadmap Council--Julie

    • working on white paper: what the software is; dispel perceived complexity

    • paper currently in final draft state, hoping to get out next week or a little past

    • trying to understand how to better help people time sprints; valuable to get more people involved and understand barriers

    • main focus on Hyrax, Hyku etc. roadmaps are not duplicating, in conflict etc.

  • Volunteer–facilitator: Karen

  • Volunteer–note taker: Margaret will take notes 

  • Carolyn: should we still have April online call?

    • MM: good idea to still have call

  • Richard: warning: next 2 weeks UK and USA are 1 hour closer than usual!

  • Apologies from loud-typing note-taker!  I mentioned in the chat window my audio was being disconnected periodically throughout the call and every time it disconnected, I was Unmuted again when it reconnected...