Omeka admin. group meeting 1/26/12

The Omeka administrative group met via Google Hangout to catch up on progress, such as it was.

• most institutions haven't had time to work with the system much over the holidays
• Catalina found the portal page she'd lost off the system and will continue to work on that; she'll bring others in to help and give feedback as needed.
• Oberlin is planning to have a student start on an NGL related exhibit in early February
• Marsha B. had developed for Oberlin some ver 1.0 how-to powerpoints-- Alan will post those for others to take a look at
• Steve will run a chron job to back up the Omeka files (zipped and tarred) on the Bluehost cloud.  We'll do this weekly for the time being. 
• We reminded ourselves not to create additional Omeka super user accounts.

TIC call 1/13/12

A brief summary of topics discussed at the 1/13/12 committee conference call:

• Catalina noted good progress on the "DRC in a box" concept she's working on for OhioLINK
• Matt Rolf's finished working on a google map interface; OL staff will assist us in moving this into production soon; Denison and Oberlin have a current need to use this interface
• Matt will next be working on the newspaper and page turning interface based on Miami U.'s student newspaper collection interface
• CONTENTdm collection migration is also on Matt's agenda
• We decided that we won't convert the "Mega Metadata Spreadsheet" into some type of database format tool, but we will review what collections' metadata is listed and add representative metadata applications from our projects.
• Catalina reported on DRC collection admin training at Denison-- she'll recyle this for Oberlin in February.  Others are welcome to attend at Oberlin or Catalina can set up another session too.
• Newspaper digitization vendor responses are in; Alan will get the workgroup on a call soon
• Omeka workgroup will have a conference call in late January.