Digital Production and Integration Program (DPIP)
Advisory Working Group
Minutes of January 9, 2007 Meeting
10:00 - 11:00, Room 609 SML

Attending: George Ouellette, Jen Weintraub, Derek Merleaux, Tracy Bergstrom, Katherine Haskins, David Walls, Fred Martz, Brian Kupiec, Karen Kupiec, Martha Smalley, Amy Limpitlaw.

Martha introduced Amy as the new committee member from Divinity.

Fred led the discussion of the Production Services Subgroup. The hope is the group will help coordinate production units in the library and 'help staff get things done quickly'. David suggested adding cost modeling as a topic to be discussed. Members will include the following representation:

Amy Limpitlaw from Divinity

Christina Corrigan from VRC

George Ouellette from WWDCS

Jen will ask for a Medical representative [Art Belanger], Fred will pursue ELI/Access Services.

It should be remembered that others will be asked to attend as appropriate. Jen will start the group in January.

Fred then discussed the Vital/Fedora Core group whose official title is the “Digital Repository Service Implementation Team.” The group’s charge is to guide the implementation of Vital/Fedora as a home for digital collections. Fred is working on a document to explain the need for a digital repository and other related digital library infrastructure in general terms. The first goal of the Core group is to make a collection available quickly that does not exist now in digital form. Fred distributed a diagram that showed collections as one part of the repository and there being many interfaces into Vital/Fedora. [Another larger Vital/Fedora working group will be formed in the near future following discussion of membership in LMT.]

Martha asked if there will be only one interface or many? The assumption is there will be more than one interface to the repository based on needs of the collection. Martha urged that the general direction be explained clearly so folks with digital collections can make decisions about directions to pursue.

Brian reminded folks that there was no review of all repositories - just Vital/Fedora, and the question was raised if there was a need to explain the benefits of Vital/Fedora over other products.

Fred has provided these URLs which provide some comparison among repository solutions:

Johns Hopkins

A Technology Analysis of Repositories and Services

https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/RepoAnalysis/ProjectRepository

Cornell

Digital Repository Comparison

http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/MannDR/Repository+Comparison

Time was running out and Fred gave a brief update on the Microsoft/Kirtas potential project - there will be another meeting in February between LMT and Microsoft.

Recorder: Karen Kupiec