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2015-03-20 Meeting Notes
2015-03-20 Meeting Notes
Date
March 20, 2015
10am-12pm EST
Local: 416-933-3828
Toll-free: 1-866-602-6845
Conference ID: 5564972
Attendees
Agenda
- Introductions=20
- Moderator term=20
- Terms of reference state the duration of moderator's term is 2 years. N=
ick's 2 years are drawing to an end. Anybody want to do this job?=20
- Stephen Marks volunteers, b=
ut is happy if others want to do it too.
- Regional Digitization Centres proposal: updates (Jenny Jing) Taylor Family D=
igital Library (Youtube)=20
- Not much of an update
- Segued to conversation around shared Islandora instance=20
- Current working team is Jenny=
Jing, Nancy Lemay, =
;Dan Scott (Dan notes his time is limi=
ted 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?
- :red-star: 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)=20
- Accessibility Information Toolkit for Libraries (
Section 3.3, pg. 25)
- Content formatted by a third party=
span>
- "Encouraging" proper formatting. Str=
ategies and resources?
- Processing deposited content for acc=
essibility
- Waterloo is standing up a new IR, an=
d 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 gre=
atest efforts toward ensuring AODA compliance on licensed content, so there=
is some perception that IRs are lagging behind.
- Many repository software platforms h=
ave OCR software built into workflows
- Question: Are Islandora and Dspace A=
ODA compliant?
- Dspace:
- XMLUI Mirage theme - no
- JSPUI c.a. DSpace 1.7, such as is st=
ill 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, depend=
ing on the content/solution packs in use
- Question: Is Islandora OCR configure=
d as a microservice or is it an integral part of the platform?
- Nick Ruest - it is a microservice, it is Tesseract
- Recognition that there could be valu=
e to ongoing conversation with the OCUL Accessibility Community here=
- OLRC Updates (Nick Ruest, Stephen Marks)=20
- All remote nodes have been deployed, Amaz is ironing out some network h=
iccups and upgrading Swift.
- Question: Has there been any development on storage pricing for non-OLR=
C-grant participants?=20
- The Storage Pricing Committee has been formed to answer this very quest=
ion!
- Request: Can some rough outline of the various "when"s of this project =
be added to the OLRC page/propaganda?=20
- :red-star:Action Item: Nick=
Ruest will look into this.
- Plan for 2015 Digital Curation Summit(Jenny Jing)=20
- Jenny Jing is working with&nb=
sp;Kelli Babcock to plan the nex=
t DC summit
- They wanted to gauge the interest in two different options:=20
- in-person meeting
- series of webinars
- Question: is there OCUL travel funding?=20
- 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 ju=
st recording.
- PASIG 2015 (Nick Ruest, Stephen Marks, =
Paul Durand)=20
- Stephen Marks & Nick Ruest presented on a few OC=
UL-related digital curation things. (OLRC and the DCC, respectively.)
- Some conversation about the University of North Texas/University of Flo=
rida reciprocal auditing arrangement.
- Platform updates=20
- Project ARC/Portage update (Leann=
e Trimble)=20
- Portage has 2 aspects:=20
- A distributed centre for expertise in RDM in Canada=20
- First deliverable will be a DMPOnline instance hosted at UofA
- Preservation & discovery infrastructure=20
- in partnership w/ Compute Canada & CANARIE
- Uses Archivematica as a processing pipeline=20
- OCUL is looking at passing AVM data from Dataverse, has contracted with=
Artefactual on this. Hope to complete work by June.
- The best source of information from the project is the official communi=
cations - Carol Perry @ Guelph is the official contact.=20
- Leanne is on the steering committee and will pass info to the DCC when =
she can
- Round table=20
- Jenny Jing - A bit more discu=
ssion re: the proposals for Digitization Centre and the consortial Islandor=
a instance.
- There are a lot of activities going on and we should make a move on som=
e of these ideas or get left behind!
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