Meeting Minutes for 08/15/2023

Digital Archive Committee 
August 15, 2023

 

New Business & Updates

  • News from the Good Marmot Folk 
  • MUG 2023
Dark Matter
  • Cleanup Opportunities and Questions
    • Progress Updates for Islandora Migration/Upgrade
      • Parent and Child Collection Objects migrated to sandbox
        • Test/Dummy collections in islandora 7 shouldn’t be in sandbox
        • Notify Marmot of collection object missing that should be there
    • Metadata configuration progress
      • Genre (labeled Item Type in Islandora 7)
        • Sandbox taxonomy
      • Language
      • A rightsstatement.org - required field. Currently 4 options available in islandora 7
        • The site has 12 total options. Are any other options wanted in the new islandora?
          • Committee doesn’t anticipate needing more than the existing 4
    • Transformation script
      • Get parent IDs out of new Islandora
        • PIDs don’t exist in new Islandora, they will be transformed from legacy Islandora to a new ID
      • Change columns from islandora 7 to islandora 2 version
      • Text field clean up (eg. escaped commas \,)
      • Data validation for columns
        • Pika collection setting values
        • Genre/Item Type; Language
        • Rights statements
    • Subject Terms Clean up
      • Main goal: Collect variations into one single search facet option.
    • Files to consult (Google Drive)
Reports & Open Discussion 
Notes: 
  • Genre in new Islandora = Item type in legacy Islandora
    • Controlled vocabulary means you have to select a provided term instead of being able to free type
  • Subject clean-up
  • New Islandora has a more general Subject field
Action Items: 
Library staff should review and start correcting
Meeting Date: 
Tuesday, 2023, August 15
Documentation Type: 
Meeting Minutes
Committees: 
Digital Archive Committee