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Announcements and updates (all)

• Danielle:
  
  • Hydra group will present to CUL soon. Exploratory work on integrating some of the collections (Shared Shelf, Kaltura, DLXS) has been successful. Ideally will have unified front end for digital collections (in Blacklight to dovetail with D&A) that allows robust search. Continuing to work on incorporating/supporting contextual pages for each collection.
  • We are not working on the Johnson Museum collections; they're going with eMuseum, which they will support.
  • Luna is being deaccessioned.
• Dean: We are an IIIF founding sponsor. Jenn: working with in house code for making this work. Need to push back on ArtStor, since they're still in demo on it.
• Gail: working with Zsuzsa to get stories out about http://blogs.cornell.edu/publicaccesshelp/. This is in support of new funding requirements.

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eCommons upgrade update (David Ruddy)

• DSpace upgrade happened the July 13th 
  
  • v1.8 to 5.2
  • continuing to work on small improvements and bugs
• Improved features include:
  • responsive front end (thank you Melissa), better search capability,eEmbeddable AV viewer, versioning for datasets
• Moved to a new URL. (ecommons.cornell.edu)
• Talking to Weill about their desired repository solution, which may be eCommons - details yet to be worked out
  
  • Discussion about "What is eCommons?" Is it a set of specific services? Is there policy integrity? Weill may want more autonomy. RepoExec is an appropriate group to address that question.
• Evan @RMC: patrons are using it, having some trouble with phrased searching. Asking for specific issues, so they can be sent along to eCommons admins

IR subgroup update (Jim DelRosso)

• Bepress recommendation to LEG was to not accept offer
• Working in JIRA but will create output useful to larger group for review and feedback
• Starting with User Stories to create features needed in Hydra/Sufia based system, but also need to consider infrastructure, sustainability, etc.

Discussion: facilitating “communication” (all)

• Group will share agendas ahead of meeting, minutes will be posted to public Wiki, both will be announced on CU-LIB.
• Will accept agenda item requests via email to Wendy, and also create a spot on the Wiki for this
• Wendy raised the questions of sharing minutes/agenda
• Wendy: do we need to broader communications?
• Dean: Schedule broader presentations for specific topics
  • Use forums such as R&O and Metadata Working Group

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