January 24, 2018 at 10 in Olin 703
In attendance: Jasmine, Mira , Marsha, Jenn, Melissa, Susette, Tre
Jasmine: JSTOR Commons and Tre: Kaltura (April 27)
Melissa and Jenn to discuss the Digital Collections Portal
Susette: people are starting to accumulate a lot of images that may be work-related and they may be starting to accumulate them in ways and we are now all forced to have the phone as part of work because of two-part authentication – We need a system for managing work related images. VRWG could play a role in training people in keeping them and the metadata. OCR-ing images from the phone.
How to take good images – Heather does a session on how to take pictures in archives and how to manage the metadata in Zotero.
Mira: How to create a good image for OCR – HOW DO YOU SCAN TO CREATE GOOD OCR
What is OCR? What is PDF? What is PDF with OCR?
Taking images in one session and then OCR
How to get good results on a basic level
1) image creation
2) basic OCR
Repo Exec: want to talk about the best practices documents (intersection between VRWG and Repo Exec)