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Quarterly Financial Report Update - as of 3/31/21
Financial Update from David
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I17i-f_P6Y8rc7V3bOUpWtFdAp2N4LQA/view
Membership Dues - budget for $376K and raised $340K so it's a little less but overall pretty good.
This shortage is offset a bit by salary savings, which is temporary but puts the current budget in good space combined with extra money from lack of travel.
As of this report we are a little less than $50K in operational income, largely because of the grant and help in paying salary for David. This and next year's budget looking good, again largely because of grant. After next year, the grant is complete and we will need to offset expenses or raise more funds.
Gathering Fedora User Stories
Last Year Etse and Rosalyn met with Fedora members that had not be able to attend a virtual gathering. Most recent exercise made it seems like this has been a productive experience and potentially continue
What are three things that are going well in your repository program?
backend infrastructure
API that can leverage integration with other systems
tightly integrated product owner with the development team
Repository Manager position
Discuss problems without jumping directly to solution
Fedora is part of the core infrastructure and it's working
Currently building out a tool to build out archival materials in ways that Fedora and DSpace do not for users outside of the archival users.
Fedora is a tool that's being used to feed into other systems the way we want
doesn't need to be the repository, we can build any front end we need for users based on needs
Migration works well, but also a challenge and something that needs to be tackled in the next 3 years (this fits all categories)
What are three current challenges/concerns with your repository program?
Challenge with migrating data
Showcase was fedora (and even Samvera) can provide and getting institutional buy in and convincing colleagues on direction to take. Having something to show people is very helpful.
Having to support multiple systems
Successful with Fedora as a digital library collections, but in transition with research data and research transformation life cycle. Where should the libraries be preserving federally funded research data?
Lack of resources throughout the library, understaffed for mission and ambition.
don't have people and process in place to do the full preservation that we would prefer.
What are the three things you are hoping to tackle in the next 12-24 months?
Sustainability of our digital repository program, focus on getting more stuff online
Right size our repository program
Looking for opportunities to do something better, making a framework to make better decisions on direction moving forward.
Interest from others on any decision and prioritization frameworks
onboarding new people
developing a new team for working on a number of systems
integrating with other systems to improve open access
Gone through a RFP process to move to a hosted Samvera environment away from locally Islandora environment and Digital Commons.
not enough local resources to manage
looking at vendors as partners
Migrating to Fedora 6
Rethinking current staffing models based on new responsibilities with initiatives that are happening
Common Themes
System Integration
Fedora sharing information up and down the stack
Finding ways to segment our content/data
Potential Areas
Affordances of large and federal datasets may be different - do we need to keep everything forever
Keeping things releasable and in the cloud
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