Meeting Minutes for 03/19/2024

Agenda: 

• New Business & Updates
  • News from the Good Marmot Folk
• Dark Matter
  • Islandora Upgrade and Migration News
    • Migration contracts
      • Boulder I7 to Marmot hosting
        • Project started this week
        • Ingest Freeze at the end of next two weeks
      • Islandora 2 upgrades
• Accessibility related
  • Pika VPAT
  • Transcription languages
    • Elements with language not the language of the page need element denoting the language
  • Audio and Video require captions
    • Transcripts should meet the requirement
    • Videos without transcripts
    • Voice Recordings without transcripts
  • PDFs should have a language set
    • Likely requires Adobe Pro tool
  • Open discussion regarding RULES ESTABLISHING TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS: 8 CCR 1501-11
  • Limited list of "Related Objects" when viewing an entity (ex. Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado)
• Reports & Open Discussion 
  • Contemporary Photography: Vail Public Library 
  • Historical Society Newsletters: Mesa County Public Library

• Notes:     
  • Marmot is currently investigating vendors to upgrade/migrate Islandora. Getting quotes! 
  • Working to have both MLN1 and MLN2 libraries on the same instance of Islandora. 
  • ~2 week migration period for Boulder – await a specified time in which ingest should be paused temporarily. 

• Action Items: 
  • Review transcript-less objects in the wake of accessibility requirements. Consider whether there are quick and/or economical fixes. 
  • Ashley to make a feature request to better facilitate users seeing full results for related objects searches