2017 VRWG Meeting Notes

1) Discuss the idea of an annual meeting related to image collections statistics -- When would this be? What would it entail? (All)

• Request stats from Artstor, Digital Collections Portal, Shared Shelf, Flickr...
• See how advertising affects – we would need to be diligent about keeping track of the outreach – too much work?
• See an inventory of what happens with digital collections
• Mira worked on Luna collections that were potentially used for Flickr
• Creating a concept map
• What is the goal of collecting the stats? Do we want to know which collections are getting used the most on a macro level (Flickr vs Artstor)? Who is using it? What are the help questions being asked? Which collections do people need help with?
• Many less VRHELP questions, perhaps because we aren't using Luna
• Pulling the data with the fiscal year and meeting after that
• Pulling storage status in Shared Shelf (Mira)
• Could get stats from Kaltura for AV (eCommons)
• Collection by collection analysis could be useful
• Artstor to ShSh Commons: Southeast Asia to Beautiful Birds
• Tre and Marsha to work on logistics

2) Digital collection promotion email digest (Tre)

• Format for putting out a monthly digest to remind people of new collections and services (for things beyond VR too)
• Helpful for ATC to get this information (hands-on support center)
• Could be on the web: Confluence and DCAPS website
• Helpful information to pass to liaisons and liaisons can pass on
• Monthly digests and larger blasts for the services
• Tre welcomes feedback
  
  

3) Arts & Sciences grants -- Getting the word out and identifying projects (Tre)

• Call went out in December
• Used to do more matchmaking and partnerships and sometimes A&S faculty is the only PI on paper
• Deadline of interest is February 15, we can do follow-up and feedback
  
• Norman Daley collection used by Adam Smith (Anthropology) – could be a benefit to have a partially digital experience, some of it has been digitized
• Last year was the first year open to graduate students with faculty sponsorship
  
  

4) Wikipedia Art & Feminism -- Who is will volunteer and what is your proficiency with Wikipedia? (Susette & Marsha)

• Julia and Heather are interested from RMC
• RMC: Identifying names, collections...
• New or existing articles to be be improved
• Eisha and Jasmine will come
• Susette and Marsha will send out a call for volunteers to CU-LIB **

GETTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT NEW LICENSED RESOURCES! Get selectors in the habit of getting in touch with VRWG to make awareness better. Susette just licensed Images of the Civil War (Adam Matthew) product. Content rich, poor interface.

5) VRWG Programming and Lightning Talks at the end of the semester (Marsha)

• Exposes problems in the chain of production
• Promotion and challenges of collections 
• Tre – AV landscape (translate for people) – data files from a repository for anywhere you want it to go
• Metadata to file naming...
• Group of people, diverse subjects, accessible language (avoid jargon) – for a lay audience
• ATC faculty event where we could do outreach (Marsha is willing to be involved)
• Resource smackdown!