NGL Steering Committee Call Note Aug. 19, 2011

Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Meeting 8/19/11 at Oberlin
• Working on project updates
• Looking into an Omeka shared server
• Writing documentation and procedures
• Investigating the outsourcing of the newspaper project
• Setting goals for the last portion of the grant

Staff Development Committee

• Planning a Technical Services Day as a staff development opportunity
• Working on ideas for faculty workshops
• Thinking about assessment for projects
• Collecting statistics on how the projects got used in the curriculum from the faculty reports
• Would like to gather info on how the projects have affected undergraduate research (ex. Anderson project OWU; undergraduate scholarly journals DEN)

Ray reported that OhioLINK wants to develop capacity for Open Access journals on a statewide central server

Mark reported that a group interested in developing a Latin American Journal will be meeting at DEN. The journal is called ISTMO (http://collaborations.denison.edu/istmo/ ) The journal covers Central American literature/cultural studies. It began in 2001 and is currently in its 22nd issue. Faculty at Wooster are very involved and the journal is hosted at Denison.

Campus Updates

• OBE on the verge of launching the King-Crane Commission with a media blitz
• WOO podcasts with regional dairy farmers (oral histories) are completed. Four potential new projects are in the works
• OWU developing two new project ideas. Two existing projects are completed (media law and medieval manuscript projects)
• DEN trying to complete all the current projects
• KEN has nothing new started but are working on numerous existing projects

Grant update

• Susan stated that there is enough money left in the grant to do about 5 more projects per campus.
• We need to be 95% committed by the June 2012 Mellon board meeting.
• Mellon wants a second proposal by March 2012

Collaborative newspaper project

• Campuses need to post information about their “runs” on the summary web page or send them to Catalina
• Technical Infrastructure committee is talking about the technical end of the project
• Many faculty are interested
• There is about $40K available for the project

Preliminary Grant extension conversation with Gene Tobin

• Missionary project (proposed) is a large-scale digitization project and may send up “red flags” because Mellon has another large-scale digitization project and Mellon has very specific criteria on how they evaluate these kinds of projects. We would have to have clear and explicit assessment criteria.
• The Internet Archive idea would go out three years and might cost $17K a year for 1 shift of student assistants to scan. We should explore what collections we might have that would fit the research component for the IA. A proposal for this would be much stronger if there is curriculum integration

Summon

• Alan, Michael, and Gwen Evans(BGSU) and the Summon rep are having a meeting to work on issues relating to OL INN_Reach