TS-DACS held its first-ever Virtual Community Forum earlier this month, with the topic of further aligning the DACS Principles with the DACS Rules. We had a very successful three half-days of structured activities. TS-DACS heard many new thoughts and scenarios that will likely inform its next steps and its work in years to come.
The following is a quick summary of the event. Meeting materials, including the agenda and artifacts created during the meeting, may be viewed in the TS-DACS Google Drive.
We had 38 registrants, with 28 participants ultimately attending. We started on Day 1 by articulating our personal priorities, writing user stories, expressing rules to address those stories, and matching them to their respective Principles. On Day 2, we took a tour of the TS-DACS github, took ownership of the prior day's Rules and matched or translated them to github issues, and worked on those issues in breakout sessions, reconvening as a group in the afternoon to review and discuss each group's work. The morning of Day 3 was dedicated to articulating and acknowledging pain points and blockers and jointly finding small ways to proceed. We finished the meeting with a collaborative agenda that touched on the larger issues surfaced during the meeting and looked ahead to next steps.
Throughout, we engaged in deep listening, made space for the unexpected, and surfaced questions about the needs of practitioners and future ways of reaching out to our stakeholder communities that were as surprising to some of us as they were insightful. Last not least, we had some fun! :-)
We would like to thank all participants for trusting TS-DACS with their precious time, and for lending the process their deep expertise, broad range of experiences, thoughtful analysis, and open dialog. Please continue to do so by creating and weighing in on tickets, reaching out individually, saying hello when our paths cross in other contexts, and last not least, by volunteering to serve on TS-DACS or another SAA body.
We look forward to continuing the conversation--
with deep appreciation,
Regine and Maristella for TS-DACS
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Regine Heberlein
Library IT Data Analyst
Princeton University Library
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