Date
March 20, 2015
10am-12pm EST
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Conference ID: 5564972
Attendees
- Stephen Marks
- MJ Suhonos
- Dan Scott
- Sarah Simpkin
- Leanne Trimble
- Paul Durand
- Patricia Moore
- Anna St. Onge
- David Sharron
- Tom Smyth
- Curtis Sassur
Agenda
- Introductions
- Hi, everyone!
- Moderator term
- Terms of reference state the duration of moderator's term is 2 years. Nick's 2 years are drawing to an end. Anybody want to do this job?
- Stephen Marks volunteers, but is happy if others want to do it too.
- Terms of reference state the duration of moderator's term is 2 years. Nick's 2 years are drawing to an end. Anybody want to do this job?
- Regional Digitization Centres proposal: updates (Jenny Jing) Taylor Family Digital Library (Youtube)
- Not much of an update
- Segued to conversation around shared Islandora instance
- Current working team is Jenny Jing, Nancy Lemay, Dan Scott (Dan notes his time is limited in the next while)
- The group wants to submit a proposal to OCUL Directors in May
- Current interested parties are: Waterloo, Queen's, Ottawa, Laurentian, University of Ontario Institute of Technology , others?
Action Item: Jenny Jing & Nancy Lemay will write draft proposal and submit to the DCC for comment. Feedback can occur online or at a specially convened meeting.
- AODA and Digital Repositories (Courtney Matthews)
- Accessibility Information Toolkit for Libraries (Section 3.3, pg. 25)
- Content formatted by a third party
- "Encouraging" proper formatting. Strategies and resources?
- Processing deposited content for accessibility
- Waterloo is standing up a new IR, and trying to assess compliance with AODA. Hoping for an open conversation on what others have found wrt IRs and accessibility.
- Many institutions have put their greatest efforts toward ensuring AODA compliance on licensed content, so there is some perception that IRs are lagging behind.
- Many repository software platforms have OCR software built into workflows
- Question: Are Islandora and Dspace AODA compliant?
- Dspace:
- XMLUI Mirage theme - no
- JSPUI c.a. DSpace 1.7, such as is still being used at https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca, is accessible (subject to any local customization of course)
- Mirage2 theme claims to aim for "best practices with regards to cross browser compatibility, accessibility and performance" but needs AODA validation
- Islandora - it's hit or miss, depending on the content/solution packs in use
- Dspace:
- Question: Is Islandora OCR configured as a microservice or is it an integral part of the platform?
- Nick Ruest - it is a microservice, it is Tesseract
- Nick Ruest - it is a microservice, it is Tesseract
- Recognition that there could be value to ongoing conversation with the OCUL Accessibility Community here
- Accessibility Information Toolkit for Libraries (Section 3.3, pg. 25)
- OLRC Updates (Nick Ruest, Stephen Marks)
- All remote nodes have been deployed, Amaz is ironing out some network hiccups and upgrading Swift.
- Question: Has there been any development on storage pricing for non-OLRC-grant participants?
- The Storage Pricing Committee has been formed to answer this very question!
- Request: Can some rough outline of the various "when"s of this project be added to the OLRC page/propaganda?
Action Item: Nick Ruest will look into this.
- Plan for 2015 Digital Curation Summit(Jenny Jing)
- Jenny Jing is working with Kelli Babcock to plan the next DC summit
- They wanted to gauge the interest in two different options:
- in-person meeting
- series of webinars
- Question: is there OCUL travel funding?
- Stephen Marks - not really. This is a perennial problem wrt OCUL in-person events.
- Point was made to consider streaming the summit this time instead of just recording.
- PASIG 2015 (Nick Ruest, Stephen Marks, Paul Durand)
- Stephen Marks & Nick Ruest presented on a few OCUL-related digital curation things. (OLRC and the DCC, respectively.)
- Some conversation about the University of North Texas/University of Florida reciprocal auditing arrangement.
- Platform updates
- Archivematica (Jeremy Heil)
- There is a security patch. Install it!
- Fedora (Nick Ruest)
- Audit Service - Mar 30 code sprint
- Tech meetings
- 4.1.1 release has been delayed by a couple of weeks.
- Islandora (Nick Ruest, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Kelli Babcock)
- The current big initiative is the move to Fedora 4.
- Fedora 4 Interest Group
- 7.x-1.5 Release
- Islandora Interest Groups - get involved!
- Omeka (Kelli Babcock, Anna St. Onge)
- No update
- AtoM (Kelli Babcock, Anna St. Onge)
- Some institutions are pooling resources to develop features of interest to Univ. Archives
- DSpace
- No update
- Dataverse
- Waterloo is looking at integrating Dataverse IDs into Dspace to help link researcher identities and publications to their data.
- Archivematica (Jeremy Heil)
- Project ARC/Portage update (Leanne Trimble)
- Portage has 2 aspects:
- A distributed centre for expertise in RDM in Canada
- First deliverable will be a DMPOnline instance hosted at UofA
- Preservation & discovery infrastructure
- in partnership w/ Compute Canada & CANARIE
- Uses Archivematica as a processing pipeline
- OCUL is looking at passing AVM data from Dataverse, has contracted with Artefactual on this. Hope to complete work by June.
- A distributed centre for expertise in RDM in Canada
- The best source of information from the project is the official communications - Carol Perry @ Guelph is the official contact.
- Leanne is on the steering committee and will pass info to the DCC when she can
- Portage has 2 aspects:
- Round table
- Jenny Jing - A bit more discussion re: the proposals for Digitization Centre and the consortial Islandora instance.
- There are a lot of activities going on and we should make a move on some of these ideas or get left behind!
- Jenny Jing - A bit more discussion re: the proposals for Digitization Centre and the consortial Islandora instance.