ALCTS PARS Preservation Metadata Interest Group

2014 ALA Annual Conference Preservation Metadata Interest Group (PM IG) Meeting Minutes

  • 1.  2014 ALA Annual Conference Preservation Metadata Interest Group (PM IG) Meeting Minutes

    Posted Jul 10, 2014 12:49 PM

    During the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, the Preservation Metadata Interest Group met on June 28, 2014 from 3:00–4:00 p.m. in Room S232 of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. 46 people attended.


    A brief business meeting preceded the program, and Co-Chair Chelcie Rowell noted that at the January 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, at the request of the co-chairs, the PARS Executive Committee voted unanimously to change the name of this interest group from the “Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group” to the “Preservation Metadata Interest Group.” Chelcie also recognized outgoing Co-Chair Sarah Potvin for her service and welcomed incoming Co-Chair Drew Krewer, Digitization Operations Librarian at the University of Houston Libraries, who will serve a 2-year term from July 2014 through June 2016.


    The session focused on the use of the digital forensics tool BitCurator to generate metadata in support of preservation functions, with an overview of the BitCurator project by Principal Investigator Cal Lee, as well as lightning talks by BitCurator Users Jarrett M. Drake (Princeton University) and Rebecca Russell and Amanda Focke (Rice University). Slides from each presentation are available below.