Governance
Chair: Brenda Gunn
- Investigate at peer systems’ governance structures
- Report and discuss with Steering Committee
- Propose a formal board structure for TARO
Standards
Co-chairs: Becky Romanchuk & Carla Alvarez
- Draft EAD Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) that comply with the newly released EAD3 schema and second edition of Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
- Consider how peer consortia have handled repositories’ use of different standards for controlled vocabulary (e.g., Library of Congress subject headings vs. Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms).
- Discuss the possible role of broad thematic (e.g., Education, Arts and Humanities) and geographic (e.g., West Texas) browse terms that will provide easy entry points to TARO finding aids.
Funding & Sustainability
Co-chairs: Amy Bowman
- Explore grant funding possibilities for update / development of TARO.
- Explore whether any peer systems use a membership fee to sustain operations.
Outreach & Education
Chair: James Williamson
- Keep membership aware of of the Steering Committee’s efforts 2015-2016 and ongoing changes
- Solicit feedback from TARO members (comments / questions)
- Develop training materials
Technologies & Website
Committee Inactive
- Understand technical implications of TARO standards, users, and goals
- Advise on possible technical directions for TARO
- Manage and train other members to use/update TARO Today blog
- Plan and facilitate platform evaluations (ArchivesSpace, XTF, AtoM)
- Produce user personas and use cases
- Create evaluation matrix for platform evaluation
- Conduct Q&A with platform reps
- Create technical documentation that can be shared with member repositories (Work with Outreach Committee)