TIC meeting April 2012

Notes by Steven Flynn...


Campus updates

Kenyon. First round of projects completion. Medieval manuscript project is done. Holocaust is digitized and complete but possibly want to publish to DRC or omeka. Islam collection having some problems with professor getting back to us. Chemistry project is on sabbatical, stalled. Mcgalla video history project, adding stuff to restricted collection, working with Cleveland public school teachers who have login to DRC, minimal metadata at this point. Approved 2 other projects. Digitize back issues of literary journal, HIKA. "community within" project working with view share to create a data set and send back to dspace interface, using I frame to create a custom front page for collection. Japanese language collection: faculty staff member no longer at Kenyon. Honors thesis being submitted, found some bugs and Catalina helped to fix the license text issues. 

OWU. Based atlases. Hard drive was intercepted by 3rd party but eventually forwarded to student with images in tact and data. Arberium, more metadata, students ended up scanning 1400 specimens. Japanese language collection, professional artifact photographer (?) is that Japanese? Food project, student editing oral histories. Photos of southwest, gonna be done next week. Virgil project. Tombs of the unknown, going to Tanzania to take photos of tombs, need to check up. Potters for peace, video files of faculty members making pots. IR, updates coming later.

Check with college secretary of the about some real political campaign ads made by students, needs to be contextualized?

Oberlin. Geology collection, waiting on maps thing with ohiolink in order to have the map up and running. Biggest issue with real time updating of collection. XML DOM transformations require greater level of permissions. We could use a static map instead for demonstration purposes. Artist book project, student did 1 week of work didn't backup and the hard drive crashed, will retake the shots. Borges, ethnography.  Contact group for students that want to do omeka project, one student has lofty goals for omeka. paleontology collection is stuck due to sabbatical, hopefully will restart in the summer. Music pedagogy videos collection bogged down, but should pick up. Musical iconography collection-- about 3/4 of work is done. New version of IR with RSS feeds. Shansi collection is done. Didn't get hoped for NEH grant to put jazz albums in DRC, still looking at smaller book scanner. Oberlin is moving to hosted contentdm and creating a single digital portal for digital collections.

Denison. Costume collection nothing more until summer, *OMEKA* collaboration with Denison? Herbarium collection is done, adding a few things, creating a collectors collection, with biographical information about the collectors. Homestead collection put off to summer, it's a collection of digitizing archives from student run farm, will start in May. Earth materials rock collection, mostly done this summer. Writing our stories collection is on test, in the process of renaming files (current macro must have at least 8 characters in file name). Journal collection, Josh has Excile, Ephilmarus and Episteme loaded in, back issues for now but all new issues will be uploaded too. No work on IR so far, except the theme is set up.

Newspaper

METS ALTO, 

We want PDF to be single issue.

TIFFs will be dark archived

We can compare differences in how students reacted to different events in 60s and 70s.

Migration. 

Omeka. Should migrate costume collection to Omeka and merge with Denison. Catalina proposing moving to ohio5.org. Will work its Steve xi and Michael Upfold.

Funding. Institutions have the option to move some of their local funds to other outlays like newspaper.

Training and documentation with staff. Any ideas or needs for training of staff let Catalina know.

Matt's redesign of Denison and Wooster.

XML issues with needing hosting, proposes to use iframes and DRC hosting for map themes.

ContentDM migration, needs VPN access to Denison but there's a hold up.

There will be a meeting to discuss Wooster and Denison themes.

NITLE symposium, digital humanities, Alan needs talking points.