11/30/11

Steering Committee Minutes November 10

1) Technical Infrastructure Committee update
Looking at Newspaper Request for Information and will soon establish a Newspaper Committee. Once the committee is formed will start contacting vendors.

2) Staff Development Committee update
Reviewed survey results from the Technical Services Workshop. Part of the feedback was requests to have groups meet regularly and stay in communication.
The Committee funded two requests for money to go to conferences. A small amount to a student who did a poster on one collection and larger amount to staff members presenting on the entire NGL project at the HASTAC Conference.

3) Campus updates
  • Kenyon- Approve another grant, and working on getting 2 or 3 more
  • OWU- Nothing New
  • Denison- 4 new grants coming up, 3 are related to digitizing student journals, the 4th is related to the Denison Homestead
  • Oberlin- has a gathering of faculty to show off the Shansi collection
  • Wooster- Focusing on student thesis collection right now

11/16/11

Faculty Preview Oberlin's Shansi Project

Oberlin College recently hosted An Introduction to the “Shansi: Oberlin and Asia” Digitization Project, an event for faculty to learn more about the OC Archives' Shansi Collection and the NGL project that is putting a significant sampling of the collection online.

OC Faculty members Bonnie Cheng and Ann Sherif 
OC Archivist Ken Grossi










The event included

  • An overview of the archives of Oberlin Shansi and associated personal papers, documenting the activities of Oberlin Shansi and the Ming Hsien School in early twentieth-century East Asia.
  • Examples of selected photographs, films, texts, correspondence, maps, objects and ephemera available electronically for the first time.
  • Discussion of the ways the collection, both online and in the College Archives, will be useful in your teaching and research.
  • Presentations by Eric Estes, Carl Jacobson, Ken Grossi, Anne Salsich, Ann Sherif, and Bonnie Cheng of the new digital collection, and objects from the Archives on display.
The Shansi project is creating a collection of digital objects that document Oberlin's early contact with Asia. The project is expected to be completed for use by students and researchers in January 2012.

11/7/11

Omeka server administrators continue planning

Notes from today's conference call are posted on the Technical Infrastructure Committee site.

11/2/11

NITLE Digital Scholarship webinar

Sign up for the free 11/11/11 1 hour NITLE digital scholarship webinar (or view the recorded version later).  Some of us heard webinar participants speak the Hope College workshop last month and they are quite good.

Steering Committee Minutes October 13

1) Technical Infrastructure Committee update
  • There is a newspaper document prepared for the newspaper project proposal.
  • Omeka server is up, the Omeka committee are testing it out now.
  • The team is looking at the Cleveland history project from Cleveland State and Mark Tebeau to see if we can replicate the idea with our local information--in Oberlin, Granville, Gambier, etc. A project like this will bring. Some public exposure and possible ways to share student research.
  • Matt is working on map interface and an IR-setting up the technical side for each school.
2) Staff Development Committee update
Technical service workshop will be on Monday, October 17 at Denison. About 30 people expected to attend.

3) Campus updates
  • Oberlin--nothing new
  • Kenyon -- 2 potential projects/proposals in the works. We are reviewing our budget as well.
  • OWU--2 projects completed the 12 steps. 2 others still in the works.
  • Denison-- working on existing projects and expanding student journals
  • Wooster - waiting for several new proposals. One new project in the works. YouTube political commercial project.
4) Any other business
Presidents meeting: We think it is important to underscore the value of OhioLINK to education and higher Ed. Talk about what we, Ohio Five, have contributed to OhioLINK as a group over time and in recent years. Talk about the importance of long term sustainability of OhioLINK as an asset to Ohio and the education Ohio institutions offer.