May 2013
May 15 in Olin 703, 11-12
Agenda:
- VRWG Brown Bags: Brainstorming and Assessment (Kaila and Marsha)
- Uris Art/Artifacts Project (Susette and Jason)
April 2013
April 17 in Olin 703, 11-12
Agenda:
- ATC's 2013 eText and Authoring Primer (Roberta)
- Collections in Luna, ARTstor, Sharedshelf (Jason and Danielle)
March 2013
March 20 in Olin 703, 11-12
Agenda:
- Updating the VRWG web presence and print materials (Steven and Marsha -- What we've identified should be done and what do you think?): We need to figure out which pages are public and note which projects are ongoing and which have been completed. Nothing should be deleted. Perhaps we should eventually include an ARTstor workflow as we have with Luna. We looked at the Visual Resources page from the catalog (http://www.library.cornell.edu/visualresources/tools/) and we will examine the language with the Usability group with a cognitive walk-though. Danielle suggested that we explore what our peer institutions are doing.
- Ideas for VR (Marsha)
- SWANK information (Marsha)
- When will Sharedshelf be publicized/announced to CUL?
- Would be good to reinstate collection announcements -- more discussion on protocol.
February 2013
February 20 in Olin 703, 11-12
Canceled
January 2013
January 16 in Olin 703, 11-12
In attendance: Boris Michev, Mira Basara, Liz Muller, Jason Kovari, Steven Folsom and Marsha Taichman
Agenda:
- 2013 Goals (See http://staffweb.library.cornell.edu/node/810 for the original charges of VRWG). We discussed whether were we going to be a working group and/or a public group/outreach/information sharing. Consensus seemed to be on information sharing forum, (technical information, public services, outreach).
- Possible projects- Review and update our web presence and print materials (VRWG website, wiki, image database list, print material; liaise between curators and communications as new collections are unveiled, branding collection homepages from the DRC Image Collections (Danielle and Melissa would need to be involved)
- Membership- The group decided to focus membership on CUL and Museums, perhaps touch base with those who haven't been seen in a while.
- Brown Bags for 2013- We have a couple topics (maps, image resources and data visualization). Marsha and Kaila would love more topics VRWG members for consideration, even if said members aren't interested in presenting themselves.
- vrwg-l: Should anyone else monitor this? Danielle oversees the list. Marsha makes referrals when appropriate.
- Updates (Kaltura, etc.)- Kaltura was unveiled in November- 3 users have been set up, mostly for investigating the platform. Artstor- latest release was lacking acceptable new multi-media functionality, trying integrate Sharedshelf and Kaltura, working on mapping to Sharedshelf, still need to go through ARTstor for building new collections. History pin- we've uploaded some images, search "Abolitionist Map of America" on the PBS site.