Notes from 2CUL JSMIN meeting, March 10, 2016
Attending: Sarah Elman, Kate Harcourt, Jesse Koennecke, Jim LeBlanc, Joyce McDonough, Chew Chiat Naun, Mark Wilson
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.
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 helped to set up a Cornell Vitro instance for Amber Billey for the collaborative LD4P work we plan to do in developing the RBMS linked-data vocabulary. Columbia and Cornell will be sending representatives to 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. Kate is also laying 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 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.
We spoke about ways to "preserve, promote, and invoke the 2CUL brand in broader collaborative forums" in support of the charge for the Alliance. Ideas included