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- With the conclusion of the TSI project, Colleen Major and Robert Rendall (members of the original 2CUL TSI Steering Committee), are no longer serving on JSMIN.stepping out of JSMIN. We are grateful to them for their three-plus years of service on the TSI Project!
- Cornell has postponed the target date for its OLE implementation from summer 2017 to summer 2018.
- Kate and Jim hope to submit their final article on TSI to LRTS within the next few days. Thanks to Adam and Robert for reading and commenting on the draft.
We identified the "discrete projects and initiatives of mutual strategic interest" in which we are currently engaged under the banner of the 2CUL Technical Services Strategic Alliance:
- The E-Resources Working Group continues its regular communication and collaborative efforts, although their routine phone calls are less frequent. Colleen has gotten INTOTA to add the NERL Wiley database to their system, which benefits Cornell as well as Columbia. The group has also been talking about usage and assessment of e-resources, including the COUNT-IT workflow, which may turn into a 2CUL project.
- Mark explained that although three of the four 2CUL teams with which he's involved no longer have regular, routine contact, Columbia continues to consult with Cornell regarding initiatives such as Cornell's authorities browse in Blacklight, the recent Summon upgrade, and how we're all handling the front-end interface for databases.
- Kate remarked that Jason Kovari has helped to set up a Cornell Vitro instance for Columbia's Amber Billey for the our collaborative LD4P work we plan to do in developing Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project to develop the RBMS linked-data vocabulary. Columbia and Cornell will be sending representatives to the next LD4P meeting in Washington DC at the end of this month. The Columbia and Cornell Metadata Working Groups continue to broadcast and attend each other's programs – most recently the presentations on Columbia's Promoting Access to Research and Collaboration (PARC) program and Cornell's "Linked Data Reality Check." Along with Harvard and Brown, 2CUL has been talking about better pricing models for ISNI. As current Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), Kate is also laying planning the groundwork for the appointment of a PCC advisory committee on moving from MARC to linked data, with Steven Folsom as chair – an idea that originated in within 2CUL technical services while Steven was still working at Cornell. Naun added that our 2015 plan to share BIBFRAME expertise and training together is likely to materialize after our LD4P work begins.
- Sarah plans to continue her lobbying for better East Asia serial records at the Council of East Asian Libraries (CEAL) meeting later this month. She is recommending moving away from Serials Solutions toward getting records from the University of Hong Kong. She may ask Cornell for help with this arrangement.
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