June 2013
June 15 in Olin 703, 11-12
In attendance:
Agenda:
- Wiki Sub-group updates (Steven)
- AAP Grants Pilot Project (Marsha)
- Strategic document on streaming A/V (Marsha)
- Discussion of 3-D Printer demo for CUL staff, co-sponsored by FAL and VRWG Public Services (Marsha)
- Classroom AV survey (classroom types, scored classrooms for av) (Roberta)
- Uris Art Collection: Scope of project, status of online collection (Susette, if she can attend)
- Announcements (All)
May 2013
May 15 in Olin 703, 11-12
In attendance: Kaila, Mira, Liz, Boris, Jason, Hannah, Steven, Marsha
Agenda:
- Updates: Moving LUNA server in the beginning of June, where images can be uploaded directly. Archivision module 7 in Shared Shelf and 8 will be available this summer. Why are the modules for Archivision separate in ARTstor and Shared Shelf? It makes sense that they would be purchased separately, but do they need to remain divided in the databases?
- New Adobe subscription model (Steven): SF will touch base with Desktop Services. Advantages of this new model include potentially more frequent updates (keeping up with CS3 has been a problem), software is never out of date, could mean more access. Disadvantages include that it will likely be more expensive and will require Internet. Streaming models are becoming the way of the future.
- Images in Discovery and Access (Steven): Public services people working with images will be involved (Kaila, Susette and Marsha). When they have something to see it will be brought to VRWG for feedback. New catalog should accommodate images of all types and will have a better algorithm than Summon.
- VRWG Brown Bags: Brainstorming and Assessment (Kaila and Marsha): Lunchtimes are not the best for everyone. Not much news regarding Kaltura, but come the spring Tre and a new hire could discuss AV. Jason suggested that Danielle might speak about the cross-campus AV report. Other topics: Digital archiving, eCommons, images in the new catalog, possibly involve the museum. The Brown Bags could potentially be co-facilitated with another CUL group, such as Metadata or Instruction. Kaila and Marsha will discuss sending out a message to the VRWG listserv to get suggestions for additional topics.
- Cornell representation at VR committees regionally and nationally (Marsha)
- Kaila will report on LOEX conference workshop: "Make it Pop: Integrating Information Literacy into Your Teaching "Songbook," and making students (and librarians) more visually literate.
April 2013
April 17 in Olin 703, 11-12
Agenda:
- ATC's 2013 eText and Authoring Primer (Roberta), written as an R&D piece, now considering how to translate for an external audience. Considering creating a picker? Website? Need to understand the need better, come up with use cases. Possibly come with questions for faculty to build use cases (Jaron, Roberta, and others are going to meet outside of VRWG)
- Collections in Luna, ARTstor, Sharedshelf (Jason and Danielle) Promotion to date it has been up to curator, occasional Chronicle articles, etc. DCAPS is going to do a new quarterly digest. Choosing a platform is complex because of different collections requirements, e.g. currently multimedia support is not great in Sharedshelf. We continue to cross pollenate collections in SharedShelf, ARTstor, ARTstor Commons as appropriate. Registry of Digital Collections could be the place to keep track of where collections are available, but we would need to revive the tool (which is unstable, at best).
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.