FOLIO SC&A Working Group Zoom #11
April 16, 2018
Attending: Gregory Bailey (Texas A&M); Erin Faulder (Cornell University); Sebastian Hammer (Index Data); Jeanine Nault (Library of Congress); Aaron Trehub (Auburn University)
Regrets: Pablo Morales Henry (Harvard/Radcliffe); Noah Huffman (Duke University); Julia Kim (LC); Peter Murray (Index Data); Aaron Rubinstein (UMass-Amherst); Katharine Short (De Montfort University); Sarah Schmidt (Duke University); Catherine Uecker (University of Chicago); Christine Wise (SOAS)
The meeting began at 11:00 AM Eastern/10:00 AM Central. It being a state holiday in Massachusetts, members from that state were unable to attend.
Agenda
1. New members. Aaron Trehub welcomed Erin Faulder (Cornell University) to the group. He mentioned that another new member, Katharine Short at De Montfort University in the UK, has a new work schedule and will probably not be able to attend future calls. Sebastian Hammer said that he would reach out to his contacts at De Montfort about this.
2. Review of the WG's work to date (January-April 2018). The group summarized the WG's work to date. There was general agreement that the WG is not ready to become a SIG at this point, although the possibility of becoming a "floating SIG" on the model of the Internationalization and Consortial SIGs was again mentioned. One outstanding question is whether there is still sufficient community interest for the WG to continue its work in this form.
Referring to the ArchivesSpace demo at the April 2 meeting by Noah Huffman from Duke University, Aaron T. said that he would like to organize live demonstrations of other archival management software packages, specifically AtoM (Canada) and Calm (UK). Gregory Bailey mentioned that Texas A&M is in the process of migrating from Archon to AtoM. He tentatively agreed to do a demo when his team have finished the migration and have a better sense of how the software works.
On the question of whether to integrate existing packages into FOLIO (which appears to be the most realistic approach at this point) or to build new SC&A apps in FOLIO, Sebastian said that he hopes the group can identify specific SC&A tasks that FOLIO developers can turn into apps.
3. Progress report to the FOLIO PC (May 1). Aaron T. said that he will circulate a draft of the group's progress report to the FOLIO PC in the next week or so. Sebastian suggested that we use the occasion to also draft a white paper on the SC&A landscape and FOLIO. Aaron T. said that he would start a white paper document in Google Docs.
4. Preparations for WOLFcon in Durham, NC (May 7-11). WG members who will be attending WOLFcon include Sebastian, Peter Murray, Aaron T., and (presumably) Noah Huffman and Sarah Schmidt from Duke. Sebastian said that representatives from Arkivum (UK) and Hermesz-Soft (Hungary) will be attending as well. He and Aaron T. will make time to meet with them.
5. Other business. None.
The call ended at 11:25 AM Eastern/10:25 AM Central. The next call will be on Monday, April 23, at the same time and Zoom address.