Governance

• Report and discuss  issues with Steering Committee
• Assist with EAD training workshops

Standards

• Once the steering committee determines the proposed approach to institutional identity (e.g. completely consistent institutional/repository names and contact information), ensure that standards stylesheet documents any changes to recording institution information
• Prepare investigative report on use of FAST subject headings
• EAD3 research; assessment of developments and use in the archival community
• Provide feedback on EAD3 finding aid template
• Committee chair will participate in two all hands meetings to review interface development and provide feedback to applications developer

Funding & Sustainability

• Plan and write grant proposal for membership training
• Committee chair will participate in two all hands meetings to review interface development and provide feedback to applications developer

Outreach & Education

• Identify training modules required after implementation of TARO. This work will inform TARO’s grant proposal to TexTreasures for training
• Continue to assist new members in process for joining TARO
• Assist with work on training grant project as outlined in the proposal
• Continue to develop member training webinars and in-person EAD tutorials
• Committee chair will participate in two all hands meetings to review interface development and provide feedback to applications developer

Technologies & Website

• Consider effective integration of EAD finding aids with other systems and portals for unique and special collections in Texas and beyond, including both harvest mechanisms for finding aids as a whole (e.g., ArchiveGrid, export of MARC records to integrated library systems and/or harvest of finding aid metadata into discovery layers) and emerging means by which finding aid metadata can be successfully re-used to provide context for digital objects in environments such as the Texas Digital Library, Portal to Texas History, and the Digital Public Library of
• Organize finding aids and pilot test EAD3 conversion
• Write and deliver papers on EAD3 pilot testing
• Committee chair will participate in two all hands meetings to review interface development and provide feedback to applications developer

 Summerlee QA Finding Aid

• Volunteers from various TARO repositories will review Word finding aids for adherence to TARO standards before forwarding to a vendor for EAD encoding
• Members will review the EAD finding aids encoded by the vendor.
• Communicate with Participating Repositories of the Summerlee grant funded New Member Initiative, as needed
• From NEH application: Each year, committee will review Summerlee project finding aids for adherence to a predefined finding aid template