May 2014

May 21 in Olin 703

Agenda:

New leadership for VRWG -- we potentially need a new co-chair for the group, preferably someone involved in technical services.

April 2014

April 16 in Olin 703

Agenda:

Capturing video and images associated with 4 new MOOCs (Roberta)- Videos stream from Youtube, can download transcripts, not currently going into either of the Cornell instances of Kaltura. Can we consider cataloging and considering a part of the collection. Roberta confirmed that the videos make sense without the MOOC experience; providing access to the video through the library can be considered without having to necessarily maintain the MOOC experience. There might be IP issues with student and faculty work. Need to work with Jaron to figure out the Library's involvement with MOOC's. Start a discussion with Liz, Danielle and Jaron.
Developments on CUL VR pages (Steven)- Kaila will create copyright for images page.
ARTstor mobile usability test, Steven will circulate a test to VRWG. Please send responses by April 22nd.

March 19 in Olin 703

In attendance: Melissa, Steven, Hannah, Mira, Marcie, Marsha, Eisha, Tre, Kaila, Boris, Susette, Roberta

Agenda:

Images in the new Beta website, http://beta.library.cornell.edu/. The usability group plans to test functionality of both platforms (SharedShelf) and how these platform integrate with the website and how VRWG might be involved in this process (Steven)
VR Page(s) on current CUL catalog (Marsha and Steven)
A new group (RepoExec) is looking at high level issues around the digital platforms we employ, such as redundancy of systems, issues of discoverability, and preservation of digital content. The group is still trying to figure out the best way to approach these issues, but one thought is to break into groups by format. VRWG could play a significant role in a digital media/images group, but RepoExec has not settled an exact process yet.
VRA Conference update (Mira and Hannah)