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- Eveline: Displays that involve collaboration with students and faculty and preserving these
- Sarah Kennedy: Google Reverse Image Search (Roberta could do this)
- Roberta: Digication portfolios/platform tool with Amy Cheatle that Cornell pays for and can be exported when they graduate
- Liz will talk to RMC, she may not be there, but someone could
- Tre: Kaltura bare bones structure
- Sally: Ways that we are using Kaltura (Mike Tolemeo)
- Jasmine will do something metadata-y
- Asking Rhea and Simon to discuss different image resolutions on different screens (ASK THEM)
- Jenn: Spotlight
- Melissa: DCP highlights
- Marcie & Marsha: Artists' book exhibition (ASK MARCIE)
- Talk to Camille and makerspaces people (printing an artists' book for the exhibition)
- Mira: PDFs, PDA and information for faculty to create awareness
- Susette: Finding images in primarily text-based databases
2) Discussion of Spotlight (Jenn)
- Working on a description of what they are offering, including how much customization will be available and then things will get deployed for everyone
- Trying to get people to understand that materials get archived outside of Spotlight and then they pull in an API
- Hannah Chapman published her exhibit, people can talk to her
- Using it for RMC
- Ken, Nick at Mann and Jenn and Melissa
- Many libraries already have plans
- A3: Deposit items into Shared Shelf and then pull into Spotlight (will try to make skinning easier, but pretty standard layout)
- https://exhibits.library.cornell.edu/summers-yield (Hannah's exhibit)
- Marsha and Liz will talk about RMC as a repository for A3 materials
3) Mellon-funded HFJ/CUL Photography Collections Initiative (Liz & Susette)
- Spearheaded by Stephanie Wiles and Anne Kenny
- 4 year Mellon grant for library and museum to work together to improve access to photography collections for teaching
- Joint curator will be hired to be posted soon, emphasizes teaching and looking at collections and recognizing value
- 2 year archivist/cataloger to work at RMC, job to be posted later in the fall
- Mostly pertains to RMC and Kheel, no digitization component, developing teaching sets
- Teaching sets of a few hundred images of those that have not been digitized
- Will allow HFJ to have money to hire a curator longer term
- Mellon wants to see how we collaborate and can these two cultures work together as a research institution
- Andy Grunberg to help with organization as a consultant
- Categories for teaching sets: history of photo, Asian studies, landscape and the environment, labor and work, inequality and the legacy of discrimination.
4) Arts & Sciences Grants (Tre)
- 13 proposals, 6 positioned for budgets
- Process of assembling rough budgets
- One graduate proposal on prison writing
- VRA will meet again in May, announced in May/June
- About to burp out 5 or 6 collections that are A&S projects – Exciting!
Wednesday, March 22 at 10 in Olin 703
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