September 2007

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 (!)

• early January- Surinder will bring up in test

• 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 

VRWG Meeting Agenda & Notes: 9-11-07

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