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March 2015

March 25, 10-11am in Olin 703

Agenda:

February 2015

February 25, 10-11am in Olin 703

In attendance: Hannah Marie Marshall, Danielle Mericle, Boris Michev, Matt Ryan, Eisha Neely, Marsha Taichman, Mira Basara, Melissa Wallace, and Eirini Diamessis

Agenda:
  • We welcomed a new VRWG member from DMG, Eirini Diamessis!
  • VRWG programming
    - Eisha suggested a program about using images and video in social media. Best platforms for different media, using images to promote collections and events, copyright and citation concerns, etc.
    - Hannah/Mira – to provide a training to staff how to embed metadata into files.
  • Update from Danielle on her Artstor/Shared Shelf meeting
    - Danielle gave us an update from her meeting with ARTstor. Shared Shelf 1.2 should be released sometime in March. In April, KVRC database should be moved from Pictor to Shared Shelf.
    - Shared Shelf API and IIIF development – this will give us better access to image databases.
    - We pay to ARTstor for storage usage, right now we have 1.3 TB, 1.5 TB will be different higher rate. Hannah and Mira will work to replace Archivision tiff images with jpegs to free up some storage
    - ARTstor doesn’t allow to download tiff images. RMC needs to be able to download tiffs
    - MacDougall collection – metadata is migrated to SS, we need to upload jpegs.
    -we all agree that faculty user group should be supported by VRWG and CUL, not by ARTstor
  • Marsha is going to set up a group that will be working on migrating collections out of LUNA to Shared Shelf
  • We talked about using social media to promote new collections and services. Tre is going to set up a twitter and Instagram account under dcaps_cul
  • New collections/AAP grants projects
  • Possibility/thoughts to publish more open collections via Flickr commons
    -     There is an opposite opinions about publishing collections via Flickr. Some people think that will be one more platform to maintain, while other thinks that will be minimal effort to publish, maintain and low cost. Mira is going to find out more about our current Flickr account, collections, etc. and bring feedback to the next VRWG meeting.
  • Hannah Marshall will talk about the preliminary research that she'll be presenting on the poster at VRA conference "A Comparative Study of Indexer- and User-assigned Subject Metadata in a Teaching Collection of Art Images"

 

 

January 2015

January 22nd in Olin 106g

Announcement sent to CU-LIB

The Visual Resources Working Group (VRWG) is pleased to present:

What is IIIF and how will it impact our image delivery systems at Cornell?

Thursday, January 22 in Olin 106g

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has the following goals:

  • To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to image-based resources hosted around the world.
  • To define a set of common application programming interfaces that support interoperability between image repositories.
  • To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such as image servers and web clients that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.

Simeon Warner will discuss the current state and likely future of IIIF (http://iiif.io/about.html). Artstor will be implementing IIIF so it will be one of the APIs through which a significant portion of our content will be available.

Simeon will provide a general IIIF introduction, some comments on how it applies to the Cornell environment (Artstor, Spotlight and Hydra, in particular), and give some demonstrations. Danielle Mericle and Steven Folsom are leading efforts to use Artstor images via Spotlight, and they will spend some time discussing image delivery.

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