2007, September 11 Minutes

Many thanks to Gale for all her hard work on Visual Resources over the past eight years. She will be missed.

General updates:

Danielle made open-call to group for suggestions on VRWG. Please feel free to email dkm26 with any ideas on how
to improve the effectiveness of VRWG.

Projects:

Still awaiting copyright info from Lab of O- this project needs to wrap up NOW! Yesterday...
KVRF running smoothly
MacDougall-
- Margaret finalizing metadata
- final batch of images (700-1000) to be shipped to DMG by end of year-- some issues with dust that need to be
  discussed in person
- We will look for a springtime upload of additional content-- contingent on time availability of programmers in DLIT

Luna 6.0 (!)

Mid January- Surinder will present to VRWG and pull in people for testing as needed
- Susette will bring to Usability group
- We will want to get faculty and staff feedback
- Webfeat integration? /no more webfeat?
- Glen may get involved from Documentation perspective
We will plan on actual implementation in Summer 2008 (no upgrades during semester)

Help pages-- we will discuss/present Help pages during first VRWG meeting in Jan

Susette and Lance are working on help for general image searching (Find It)
Glen & Karen are working on Luna documentation and general clean-up of existing resources
Gale will pull together a general FAQ for desktop problems for Amy to use in LIBIT
We need to determine the best/most visible place to put help pages.

NEXT MEETING AGENDA:

Luna 6.0
Help pages
Include Amy from Desktop (LIBIT-L) Karen, Martha, and Margaret and possibly HFJ folks

Project Updates:

Lab of O
- We are in the final phases of development- still awaiting approval from Lab before final release.
- Susette & Gale conducted Usability Studies on the collection and came up with a list of recommendations (see Usability Results)
- The following recommendations fell within the "feasible" realm:
  - Copyright:
    1. Displaying size one when user clicks on an image-- Mira investigating
    2. Fix "image unavailable" statement to "Image may not be further enlarged due to copyright restrictions"
    3. Activate link for copyright statement.
    4. Investigating link option in background
  - Metadata
    1. Investigate issues with search/index (so that user can search on "robin" and get results -- not "American Robin"
  - Help Pages
    1. Glen, who is on the documentation committee, will work with team to create new help documentation. Eli agreed to send on documentation related to this.
- MOU for ongoing maintenance-- this is in its final phases and will be shared with group upon completion (likely next meeting)
MacDougall
- Anticipated load TBD-- likely late fall/early winter. Stay tuned.
KVRF
- Done! Things seem to be progressing smoothly with regards to weekly uploads. Hopefully we can post documentation regarding workflow on wiki (Mira/Surinder?)
Luna 6.0
- Release date still TBD, but Surinder will keep us informed. Sounds like there will be significant changes.

Patron/Client Support

Contact list on web (who to contact for what)--
- We agreed to keep LunaSupport-L as the primary outlet for help.
- We DO need to determine who will monitor the list to make sure that things are responded to within a reasonable time-frame.
- Proposed point person with back-up TBD-- (please feel free to volunteer!)
Personal collections
Passwords update
- Awaiting recommendations from Martha Walker...

General

Subgroups? Discontinue? (Go back to monthly meetings)
- There is still a list of "to do" on front page of this wiki- we need to determine what we WILL do and what we can't do... next meeting agenda item.
Consultants
Vision for the future

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