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TARO workshop coming up May 2017

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Hello fellow TARO folks —

Amy Bowman and I are excited to offer a TARO workshop May 24, 2017,
at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting,
located this year in beautiful Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Watch for registration through the Society of Southwest Archivists, opening soon.

The workshop has a max size of 15 participants, so sign up early if you are interested.
If there is a wait list, we can discuss a Winter offering in a Texas location.

Here is a description:

Introduction to TARO: Encoding and Submitting Finding Aids

Date: Wednesday, May 24

Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm (full day) 1.00 – 5.00 pm (half-day)

Cost: $100.00 (full day – price includes box lunch)/$50.00 (half-day)

Location: SSA Conference Hotel (info)

Trainer: Amy Bowman and Amanda Focke

Description:

This workshop will teach the hands-on basic skills needed to participate in TARO, including basic XML familiarity and editing, EAD familiarity, how to upload files to TARO, and troubleshooting. The full day is recommended for those with little or no TARO, EAD, or XML experience. The half-day (afternoon only) is recommended as a refresher for those who might feel rusty and/or have work environment changes which have changed their approach to TARO (such as using collection management software now instead of hand-encoding XML). The workshop is open to anyone but is focused on TARO guidelines and workflows.

This is not an intensive EAD course, or an intensive XML class, but will show the basics to get you started and share resources to help you once you return to your workplace.

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Would you like a detailed class specifically on EAD/XML?
Amigos is offering such a class live-online (four 2-hr sessions), in March 2017.
Get the details here: http://www.amigos.org/node/3587

All best,
Amanda Focke
Rice University
TARO Steering Committee Chair, 2017

Feedback for governance plan / Nominations for next Steering Committee

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Dear TARO representatives,

1.) The TARO Steering Committee is wrapping up its NEH Planning Grant, and would like to take steps to formalize its committee structure while working toward writing an implementation funding grant. Please see the TARO Bridge Governance Plan online here. Comments are welcome and will be accepted through September 30, 2016. Please submit comments to the TARO list or to the current TARO co-chairs, Amy Bowman (a.bowman@austin.utexas.edu) and Amanda Focke (afocke@rice.edu).

2.) TARO would like your participation in forming the next TARO Steering Committee. To that end we ask for nominations as described in the 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 October 7, 2016,
the slate will then be distributed, with online voting opening Friday Oct 21 ending Friday Oct. 28, 2016 (also by an online form).

Thanks so much for offering any feedback on the governance plan and for nominating candidates for the Steering Committee,
TARO co-chairs, Amanda Focke (afocke@rice.edu) and Amy Bowman (a.bowman@austin.utexas..edu)
Current list of steering committee members: https://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/admin/staff.html

Update on schema conversion Summer 2016

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Fellow TARO folks,

We are wrapping up schema conversion for repositories who already create schema-compliant EAD using ArchivesSpace and Archon (known as “Group A”).
Directions for those repositories are online at TARO Today blog (using Archon, and using ArchivesSpace).

We have begun working individually with the hand encoders known as “Group B,” as listed below.
San Jacinto Museum of History was converted last week and the process went smoothly.
Updated instructions for working with TARO-friendly EAD are available here.

Below is the schedule for Group B, with Group C following in early 2017.
Basic info on how the conversion process works and which group each repository is in

Thanks, everyone!
Amanda Focke, TARO Steering Committee co-chair

account repository Conversion Date
sjmh San Jacinto Museum of History (Oxygen) July 12-14
tslac Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Oxygen) July 26-27
swcpc Texas Tech University, (Oxygen) August 2-4
tturb Texas Tech University, Rare Books (Oxygen) August 2-4
ttusw Texas Tech University, Southwest Collection (Oxygen) August 2-4
ttuua Texas Tech University, University Archives (Oxygen) August 2-4
ttuav Texas Tech University, Audio Visual (Oxygen) August 2-4
utlac The University of Texas at Austin. Benson Latin American Collection (Oxygen) August 16-18
utlsc H.J. Lutcher Stark Center, University of Texas at Austin (Notepad++) August 30-Sept 1
uttyler University Archives and Special Collections The University of Texas at Tyler (limbo between Archon/AS) August 30-Sept 1
utsa University of Texas San Antonio (Oxygen) August 30-Sept 1
tsusm Texas State University (Oxygen) Sept 13-Sept 15
dalpub Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library (NoteTab) Sept 13-Sept 15
utlaw Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin (Oxygen) Sept 13-Sept 15
utmb Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections, Moody Medical Library, University of Texas Medical Branch (Oxygen) Sept 27-Sept 29
smu Southern Methodist University (Oxygen) Sept 27-Sept 29
hamtmc Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center (Oxygen) Sept 27-Sept 29
apts Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Notepad++) Oct 11-Oct 13
aushc Austin History Center, Austin Public Library (NoteTab) Oct 11-Oct 13
utarl University of Texas Arlington Library, Special Collections (XMetal) Oct 25 – Oct 27
uthrc Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin(Oxygen) Nov 8 – Nov 10
drtsa Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo (Oxygen) Nov 29 – Dec 1
houpub Houston Public Library, Houston Metropolitan Research Center (limbo between AT/AS) Nov 29 – Dec 1
utcah The University of Texas at Austin. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (Oxygen) Dec 13 – Dec 15