2014-04-11 Meeting Notes

37 respondents.

The way is clear, thanks to the survey.

Perhaps done in 2-3 segments throughout the day

Two clear issues: desire for discussion of practice then tools

Comments for events: Focus on learning new tools to feed it into a series of webinars.

We do not want to overwhelm participants with a day of intensive training.

Event planning

More general learning opportunity, then a more focused workshop.

Pre-testing involved? That can narrow our focus and help structure/unstructure the webinar to suit our audience

Webinars are probably best to build skills/knowledge up to November

Tentative November event (location? Offer from Gerstein Library?). People from away are okay with a weekend getaway in Toronto.

-have it finished by 3pm.

ACTION: Doodle poll the community for dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 November 2014.

ACTION: Form event planning working group (Kelli Babcock, Jenny Jing Unknown User (saraa), Stephen Marks too (as able), Laurie Morrison (will be a 'doer'))

Draft annual report is available here.

Confusion about annual report - why are we being asked to write one? We need to justify why we're not using the money this year, we're given permission to push this into 2014-2015 year.

Do we need a high-level workplan or just an activity plan?

Work plan: keep to three high-level objectives that are clearly structured and documented.

Recommendations and proposals section: any requests?

So far it is to have standing agenda item in our meetings to update community on what is happening in Cloud Storage project, Technical Committees.

ACTION: Nick Ruest will clean up this report, have final draft out by 14/15 April 2014 for comment and review to be submitted by 18 April 2014.

-Community event in November

-Webinars

Discussion:

Jenny Jing: Queen's is investigating buying a new scanner for oversized historical materials.  How to evaluate the possibility for consortial purchases for larger pieces of specialized hardware for digitization?

Good test for this network. But worth investigating as a wider activity of this group.

ACTION: Jeremy Heil Jenny Jing Anna St. Onge and Stephen Marks (eyeballs only) are going to write a short rationale of investigating the possibility of a consortial/regional digitization centres

Stephen Marks reported that the ODLRC was in the process of spending lots of money (in a responsible way) to buy up storage via UofT RFP (which had to be a confidential) process before 31 March 2014.  Currently pulling back together the steering committees to help direct these activities moving forward. Committees are responsible for technical activities and governance of the network. 

Next week webinar of members of those two groups re. project, OpenStack

There is a draft work plan that once it is approved will be available to a larger community (in a week or two?).

Preliminary discussion with Artefactual Systems Inc. re. integration of Archivmatica with OpenStack system (archivists all smile).

Discussion: more of a case study, best practices, something that will feed into our in-person discussion in November 2014. Do we want the developers' perspective?

ACTION: (All) We want to populate our bibliography with more resources of existing webinars/instructional videos for our community.  Let's not reinvent the wheel, but this activity will also identify gaps.

ACTION: Nick Ruest Doodle poll of blocks of time that would be practical for webinar scheduling