EAS Steering Committee - 2017 September 11 Agenda/Minutes

Agenda

1. Scheduling future calls

   1. Need another method of communication beyond calls to check in

      1. Slack

      2. Google group?

   2. Calls every other month

      1. Can’t schedule on a specific day

      2. 2 weeks lead time to get the meetings on the calendars

2. Accounts

   1. Roles

   2. Who wants what?

      1. Sending it out to more people

3. Social Media

   1. We should be doing more?

      1. Email is totally fine

      2. Twitter could be more robust

   2. New platforms?

      1. Don’t really need more

      2. Keep an eye on Facebook

   3. What we’d like to see?

      1. Updates

      2. Changes

      3. Discussions (tag EAS)

      4. Ask an Archivist Day

4. Project Ideas

   1. How are people creating standards-compliant description? By hand?

      1. Who’s creating EAD by hand and who’s using a CMT to generate EAD?

      2. How are people generating EAC records?

      3. Goal: here’s where we are. How people are using and interacting with standards.

      4. Earlier project (all hands on board)

   2. Collaboration Opportunities

      1. MDOS

         1. Crossover between creating finding aids and digital object metadata?

      2. CMT

      3. Description

      4. Groups for specific types of archives

         1. Lone Arrangers

            1. Possible target for outreach/survey

         2. Government

5. Webinar Ideas

   1. Tabled until survey results

6. Brainstorming for annual

   1. Need more than one person

   2. Related presentations?

      1. 10-15 minutes

   3. Thematically related content

7. Agenda Items for Fall Council Meeting

8. To Do

   1. Patrick: Setup Slack

   2. Patrick: Twitter login info

   3. Lora: Setup google doc or something else for survey