October 2011

• Announcements
• Video sub-group (Danielle, Jason?)
• Database List discussion update (Kaila) 
• ARTstor Shared Shelf

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August 2011

• Announcements
  • Visual Resources and Public Services Librarian position -- see attachment
  • Visual resources booth at the Olin-Mann Grad Event, Sept. 13, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Olin Libe Café
• Video sub-group update (Danielle)
• updating of content on the VR site -- set meeting for small sub-group to review (boris/dm/lm/sn/kb)
  • Workshops- rss or generic?
  • Collection lists- up to date?
  • Designating two/three people in charge of maintaining site
• and an investigation into old and outdated info in Find Database Names/images/ERM: http://erms.library.cornell.edu/search~S4/m?Images
• Database List discussion (Kaila, Jason, Maaike) - 20 min.
• Visual resources paper
• Faculty Grants 2011 (Danielle)

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May and June 2011

• Welcome to Jason Kovari
• Reviewing front-end of library homepage- Jason and Kaila will lead  
  • We need to review the relationship between Luna Commons, Image database list, catalog records, and Digital Registry
  • Luna Commons collections --
    • will get cataloged
    • TBD - Image database list
    • Approval of Berg Fashion Library for inclusion in Images database list
  • Image database list
    • determine policy as to what goes in
    • add map collection to both drc and image database list
    • Add Cornell digital registry into database list
  • Quick review of all lists to make sure they are aligned
  • Ultimately need to find a better home for the DRC
• Historypin.com - Danielle will call
  is a new, free way for archives and members of the public to share their history. Historypin allows users to overlay historic photographs on Google Street View and Google Maps, providing compelling windows into the past at the click of a button. Many major archives in Europe and the USA are already on board, and we're also developing community learning programmes in the UK and in New York.You can see a quick video about the project here, and you can see some examples of photographs here.
  Our content team can upload images for you, in time for the summer launch of the site, when our Historypin smartphone app will also be available; allowing people to go a step further, and view historic photo's while on location. Over the coming months we're aiming to develop a range of tools that will enable archives to show Historypin on their own websites - and even have their own bespoke apps.
  Over 40,000 photographs and stories from individuals and archives in Europe, the UK and the US, have already been uploaded, and received some great press coverage. Our current partners include San Francisco Municipal Transport Archive, The New York Transit Museum and PhillyHistory.org, with The New York Public Library and the Museum of the City of New York, getting on board imminently. Our archives section and the attached .pdf can offer you more information.
•  Rebranding the group- punt for now, if necessary Visual & Multimedia Working Group option
• Summer workshops (Kaila)
• Kaltura update and video subgroup (Danielle) (steering group: kaila, danielle, boris, and jason)
• Aeon project?
• KVRF slide collection culling and retirement update

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