October 2015

October 28, 10am-11am  in Olin 703

In attendance: Hannah, Susette, Liz, Eisha, Eirva, Tre, Mira, Marsha, (a guest hawk)

Agenda:

• Status of collections migration from Luna to Shared Shelf (including Utopia and Political Americana)
  - We are making a great progress to meet our target to decommission LUNA by the end 2015. Political Americana – metadata is uploaded to Shared Shelf catalog and is waiting for Liz and Eisha to review metadata before we publish the collection. Rhea and students are working to collect images for the collection.
  Utopia collection – we exported entire metadata, but only RMC material will go to Shared Shelf. Hannah is going to map fields and upload to SS, she will decide will this set go to RMC collection or separate collection. Images are ready for upload
  - Lab of O – before we start migrating this collection  Tre/Danielle/Hannah/Mira will check with Lab of O to see is there need to migrate this collection to Shared Shelf or Lab of O will manage on their end.   
  -Matt recently mentioned that HFJ will be in eMuseum sometime in November. We are going to ask Matt to provide workshop how to use eMuseum before Spring semester starts.
  -Karma – Mira will start soon to work on this migration. This shouldn’t be a problem

• Make an action plan to remove Luna from the Visual Resources pages on the library catalog and in Libguides
  - Susette and Marsha will remove Luna from VR page and libguides. Mira will test to update one handle of ADW to point to sscommons/ADW page. If this works, we will update all handles, so links from Flickr will go to Sheard Shelf collection level. Once when we have portal for all collections we can update on our end handle server.

• Update on Artstor’s plans for embedded metadata support
  - Recently ARTstor announce that embedded metadata support is coming soon to ARTstor. That means instead of downloading zip file that includes an image and xml file, image will be downloaded with embedded metadata.

• Discussion of upcoming events. Brown bag workshops ahead in 2015: Omeka led by Susette on October 30, and Wikipedia with Meghan, Eirva and Kelee on December 8
• Announcements

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September 2015

The meeting was canceled.

August 2015

August 26, 10am-11am  in Olin 703

In attendance:

Danielle (WebEx), Eirva, Eisha, Tre, Desi, Melissa, Jenn, Susette, Boris, Hannah

Agenda:

• Demo the new digital collections portal site (Jen, Melissa and Danielle)
• Status of current A&S grants and upcoming projects
• Bastides projectFuture and changes within VRWG
• VRWG workshops and talks

Danielle:

New digital collections portal: http://digital-stg.library.cornell.edu/

We are migrating DLSX text collections that we would like to centrally manage rather than having so many boutique-y websites that can feel outdated quickly. This portal will provide a single point of access for all collections regardless of format type rather than creating more collection silos – everything will be in one place. This initiative was bolstered by the paper that is being written on AV streaming, and the fact that we are happy with Artstor's cataloging, but not so much their delivery system. The portal was met with more success than anticipated and the team wanted to get feedback today. The Hydra group will become the Digital Collections Portal group

Melissa:

Showed the public facing website for Cornell Collections of Antiquities and the staging development site for the portal. We will continue using Shared Shelf as cataloging tool, but we will be harvesting the metadata in new ways. The images will be downloaded then used with the IIIF viewer. We will have to set up user scenarios and think about how our patrons would use this/what they need. The results cam be emailed, cited, bookmarked, and downloaded in one zip file. Eventually we will be able to do multiple collection searches.

Bastides update:

The Bastides project will go into the digital collections portal. The team met with John, and we are looking to launch the website in early November (by his 94th birthday).

A&S Updates:

See http://blogs.cornell.edu/dsps/2015/08/28/new-arts-sciences-grants-announced/ for more information.

Lindsey Cooper archive (Ben Piekut, ethnomusicologt), with estate of avant garde musician in London (late fall/winter)

On Our Backs (Susie Bright archive) – working on this this spring (Kate McCullough, Brenda Marsden)

Costume collection (two A&S faculty and one in human ecology), non Western collection, migrating entire Filemaker Pro database with Hannah Marshall

Sterrett collection of photos from RMC (Ben Anderson)

Workshops:

Omeka (November), AV Preservation (January)

July 2015

July 22, 10am-11am  in Olin 703

Agenda:

• Luna migration progress:
• - Marsha Marsha and Susette sent the email to AAP and A&S faculty to let them know about decommissioning Luna. There are no major or negative responses so far. Bonnie MacDougall pointed out that metadata in SS is not same as in Luna. Hannah and Mira will work on this to sync these two databases.
• - HannahHannah, Mira and Rhea are working on Political Americana migration. Export from Luna is in xml format, which is difficult to convert to xlsx for Shared Shelf upload. We might need help from Dianne D. to write a script. Rhea hired a student to transfer images from DVD and sort out for SS upload.
• E-Museum update: The Johnson Museum signed a contract with Gallery Systems and will be migrating their collection to TMS
• Status of current A&S grants and upcoming projects
• Bastides project
• Future and changes within VRWG
• ARTstor/SS updates
• - ARTstor ARTstor merged indexing results from SS and ARTstor library. We don’t need any more to publish collections in both places, but we need to go back to each collection and deselect ARTstor target and republish each collection. Right now it looks like that each collection is published twice. Hannah will talk with Elizabeth to see is there a simple process to fix this.
• VR workshops and presentations: We came up with a few additional ideas: AV streaming and policy with Tre, Tableau with Boris as well as other resources (a primer)

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