2008 Goals
- Create a prototype DAM for Vet School with the aim of generalizing it for other Cornell projects
- Build a full life-cycle infrastructure for CUL's web-based assets
- Add new content and upgrade CDSun site
- Migrate existing digital collections to DLXS (single) platform
- Upgrade and enhance eCommons@Cornell
- Integrate Fedora into CUL's infrastructure
- Investigate enhancements to image collection delivery
- Promote Professional Development with group training, code readings and reading groups.
- Participate in eScholarship initiatives and programs such as the Forum on Publishing in Humanities or Bathrick's conference on changing authorship
- Complete the LSDI repository and start migrating the digital collections to the same architecture for a unified bitstream preservation model
- Explore the future of Luna Insight and strategic directions for visual resources delivery and management
- Create home page for digital collections - here is a good example
- Assess DCAPS cost-recovery model and explore if we want to continue providing cost-recovery based services in 2009.
- Continue advocacy for DLIT staff training, job satisfaction, recognition, etc. Experiment with a new wave of PR for our digital scholarship services - based on capacity
- Explore how to better integrate usability in our application and technology development efforts - staff training
- Revisit DLIT organizational structure
- Submit NEH/IMLS grant proposal for Vicos/Tibet DAM project
- Participate in submission of IMLS grant proposal for Johnson Museum DAM project
- SDG: Continue to improve our tools and methods for assessing our online systems: a) build phase two AJAX interface for the logs system; b) more usability testing
- SDG: Improve discoverability of our collections (OAI, support for Web Vision Implementation team's Library Outside the Library goals)
- SDG: Integrate WorldCat Local with Borrow Direct and Voyager and new CUL Website