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- We welcomed a new VRWG member from DMG, Eirini Diamessis!
- VRWG programming
- Eisha suggested a program about using images and video in social media? Best platforms for different media, using images to promote collections and events, copyright and citation concerns, etc.
- Hannah/Mira – to provide a training to staff how to embed metadata into files. - Update from Danielle Mericle on her Artstor/Shared Shelf meeting
- Danielle gave us an update from her meeting with ARTstor. Shared Shelf 1.2 should be released sometime in March. In April, KVRC database should be moved from Pictor to Shared Shelf.
- Shared Shelf API and IIIF development – this will give us better access to image databases.
- we We pay to ARTstor for storage usage, right now we have 1.3 TB, 1.5 TB will be different higher rate. Hannah and Mira will work to replace Archivision tiff images with jpegs to free up some storage
- ARTstor doesn’t allow to download tiff images. RMC needs to be able to download tiffs
- MacDougall collection – metadata is migrated to SS, we need to upload jpegs.
-we all agree that faculty user group should be supported by VRWG and CUL, not by ARTstor - Marsha is going to set up a group that will be working on migrating collection collections out of LUNA to Shared Shelf
- We talked about using social media to promote new collections and serviceservices. Tre is going to set up a twitter and Instagram account under dcaps_cul
- New collections/AAP grants projects
- Possibility/thoughts to publish more open collections via Flickr commons
- Hannah Marshall will talk about the preliminary research that she'll be presenting on the poster at VRA conference "A Comparative Study of Indexer- and User-assigned Subject Metadata in a Teaching Collection of Art Images"- moving this agenda for next meeting
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