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Summer 2018 TARO updates

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TARO submitted an implementation grant to the NEH in July 2018

  • This grant funding would support major updates to our site.
  • Thanks to TARO members for their input, and to TARO committee members for all their excellent work to assemble this application!
  • NEH response is expected in Spring 2019, with funded projects beginning May 2019.

TARO submitted and was awarded a Summerlee Foundation grant!

  • This grant will fund the XML encoding of hundreds of Word finding aids.
  • Work will being in Fall 2018, with 5 new TARO members: Harris County Archives, Menil Collection, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Research Center, Fort Worth Jewish Archives, and the Catholic Archives of Texas.

Stay tuned for annual TARO Steering Committee elections coming up this Fall 2018. We want you!

TARO nominations for Steering Committee

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Dear TARO representatives,

TARO would like your participation in forming the next TARO Steering Committee. To that end we ask for nominations as described in the TARO Bridge Governance plan:
 “Steering Committee members may be nominated until two weeks before an election. Self­-nomination is permitted. Candidates for the Steering Committee will provide brief statements detailing their reasons for running and provide a summary of their qualifications to the Nominating Committee. These statements will be distributed electronically to TARO members at least one week prior to the elections.  For the formal vote in October, each member institution may submit one vote (ballot).”

Nominations accepted (by this online form) until Wednesday November 1, 2017.

The slate will then be distributed, with online voting opening Wednesday November 15 ending Tuesday November 21, 2017 (also by an online form).

Thanks so much  for nominating candidates for the Steering Committee,
TARO chair, Amanda Focke (afocke@rice.edu) and vice-chair, Sandra Yates (sandra.yates@library.tmc.edu)

Current list of steering committee members: http://texastaro.pbworks.com/w/page/73447661/TARO%20wiki%20home

TARO conversion to schema formatted EAD file complete!

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Exciting news! All current TARO repositories have  successfully gone through conversion of their files to schema format, and are now able to submit only schema compliant files.

Thank you to everyone for your work on this effort!

 

Extra special thanks to Minnie Rangel at UT Libraries for helping us through  with her wonderful processing scripts, helpful error reports, and friendly communications.

TARO is better positioned now to move forward with upgrades once we submit our implementation grant request and are funded. We are currently settling some outstanding questions of governance and sustainability, and then plan to submit our implementation grant request in Summer 2018.

Questions?
Contact Amanda Focke, TARO Steering Committee chair 2017