Conference Call Minutes: December 2015

DAS Subcommittee Conference Call Minutes

12/1/2015

Present:  Bishoff, Ghering, Legg, Lindberg, McAninch, Rosko, Schaefer, Martzahl, De Sutter, and Downing. (Ghaznavi)

Martzahl:

The one think I would like confirmation from the group on today is the proposed Foundational Breakdown that takes into account the retirement of F01. (I've left F04 in the calculations since I want to propose an outline for a replacement course). I've upped the number F02 questions significantly given that it is a course that covers a lot of basic territory.

Foundational Breakdown – Total of 53 Questions

Approved (Glen); Bishoff – concerned about number of questions for webinars; how should it be weighted?  Consider how a principle keeps being reiterated throughout the curriculum. 

VM will send out the questions to everyone; the liaison has first look;

• Is Archiving Emails T&S or Foundational - EPAC – new title is Preservation Strategies for Email Archiving.
• Explore development of a basic class (Basics of technology for archivists) highlight in the description – focus on what we know best LB; Ghering thinks they need to know language between IT and Archivists language

        GM:  Computer functions?  Storage methods?  Better than how a computer works!  Tutorials – have instructors make; LB rather than a whole class add some slides on this in the Thinking Digital Class – it’s part of the foundation – hate to lose it incorporate it into the webinar, - different servers, routing, basic understanding of that;

• Approval of October minutes – questions?
• Approval of last call minutes and answer to questions…
• Who wants to audit the Web Archiving webinar? Glen, Kate, Lori, Sibyl; (live session email)
• Brianne – chart; there are 5 instances of missing “what you should know” and  number of links that need to be checked and/or restored;  If I understood correctly, liaison calls should determine inclusion of:  To get the most out of this course, you should be familiar with the following concepts/terms or bibliography.  Link or point to glossary, if not in glossary then submit/state source. 
  • Go over outcomes in terms of action verbs?
  • Liaison calls regarding descriptions and exams…

Kate would like to get assistance; exam questions are update; Feb. 22

Lori – yes; Liz emailed Averkamp and reviewed description – added ACE, glossary stuff, looked at exam and modified; confusion between;

        Match exam to what’s in the content;

WHAT WAS Decided?

• Thinking Digital – “last updated in 2013, includes digitization and should really be all born digital.”  Group decided to retire the webinar.  De Sutter asked if there is something in its place since many course descriptions point to this webinar as a recommended pre-requisite. 

Correct in description webinar versus (digital versus??  Does anyone remember what this was about?

• First thought was to keep content as is but rework the parts about digitization; the webinar shouldn’t be replaced pieces of it are in a lot of classes;  Lots of discussion and a different take on digitization having a place in the DAS Curriculum. 
• Leave questions about it until Feb. 2016 in comp exam and then retire.

Keep digitization references in DAS content – some aspects are relevant because it is being done in reality.  Archivists are faced with born digital and have it reformatted; digitize object because there’s no analog version; provide contrast; let instructors know;

Martzahl will submit a course outline she is working on.

• Idea – Audit/Certification webinar – replacement for TRAC, Sibyl may be able to develop.  See Teresa’s note:

“New volume in the series Trends in Archives Practice was published: “Module 8: Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository” by Steve Marks. The author has been superb to work with. In his message below, he indicates he would be interested in developing a web seminar!!! 

As soon as the June 30 web seminar experiment with Module 2 is successfully (!) presented, the Publications Board would like to explore doing one on Module 8 and would be interested in your thoughts. I can provide a copy of Module 8 for your reference.”

Bishoff to talk with Sybil about IPRES how audit and certification is positioned – take a different approach?  Audit and Assessment as an introduction? 

Module – goes through step by step; bring in some of the assessment tools; few inst. can get certified; do a Tools class – hands on.  Reference the electronic tool as a next step – after this you can better understand that advanced tool; give Liz access; there is no one approved to audit that standard…

Question is how to be approved to audit…Focus on selfassessment;

LB - Assessment and Audit proposal – webinar; SS reviewed it; instead of specific course on ISO 163

The “What you should know” section of the description should include language along the lines of: