Technical Services Workshop October 17th

The fall Technical Services Workshop will be held on October 17th at Denison University. All interested staff are welcome to attend, though the day is designed for staff who are working in Technical Services. If you plan to attend let the Staff Development representative at your school know.

The Five Colleges of Ohio Technical Services Workshop
October 17th Burton-Morgan building, Denison University

The Ohio Five Technical Services Workshop is designed to bring staff together to address issues in this changing field. From this workshop we hope participants will find more ways to collaborate between schools, share current practices, and learn about new trends.

Agenda
9:45-10:00 Arrive and enjoy a full breakfast
10:00-10:15 Welcome and overview
10:15-11 Summon for Technical Services
11:15-12 Electronic Resources overview
12-12:15 CONstor Update
12:15-1:30 Oriental Buffet Lunch and Special Interest Lunch Tables
1:30-3 Sharing “Best” Practices (select one: Cataloging, Serials or Acquisitions)
3-3:15 Doorprize drawing and wrap up

For more info see the Full Agenda

Steering Committee Minutes September 22nd

Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes September 22nd, 2011

Technical Infrastructure Committee update
• Report from Alan – OWU has ordered new equipment, from line in grant budget. He hasn't tallied the totals for this line to see who has how much remaining. He volunteered to do so and send out a message to everyone.
• Newspaper project still needs more detailed info from some institutions
• Seeking volunteers to do a pilot video project (short video about a digital collection that could be used as promotional material with other faculty). This needs a faculty volunteer who has worked on a project.

Staff Development Committee update
• Planning the Technical Services Workshop for October 17th
• Professional development opportunitites:
-GLCA workshop on Digital Humanites (Hope College, Oct 7-8)
-OhioLINK Digital Preservation workshop (Columbus, Oct. 24-25)

Campus updates
• OWU –final decisions today or tomorrow on next submissions (received five)
-completed projects: Digital Resources for the Teaching of the History of the Book abd Contemporary Issues in Media Law Podcasts
• KEN – have another call for projects
• DEN – need additional help with costume project and have hired student workers
• WOO – two projects in the works − Working on the Independent Study database
• OBE – working on ongoing projects

OH5 Omeka server project

Notes from a conference call among staff planning to implement a shared Omeka server for digital exibitions support have been posted on the Technical Infrastructure Committee blog

Oberlin Ethnographic Collection talk at Illinois State Museum

Linda Grimm, OC Emerita Professor of Anthropology, gave a talk last week at the Illinois State Museum touching on her NGL project.  Prof. Grimm is working in collaboration with Assistant Prof. Amy Margaris and student research assistant Geneva Dampare on creating an expanded website to facilitate coursework with the digital collection.

New Promotional Flyer from OC Archives

The Oberlin College Archives have created a promotional flyer on their digital collections, include two location collections developed under the grant.

Staff Development Committee Notes August 25

Staff Development Committee Conference Call Notes on August 25, 2011

1. Welcome to our new committee member, Chris Casey from Denison!

2. Review of Summer Institute 2011

• Overall positive feedback!
• Some things to keep in mind for the next event, add moderator for panels etc

3. Review of DRC Admin Training

• Funded by Staff Development Committee but organized by TIC, great training

4. Technical Services Fall Workshop

• Came out from directors' meeting
• Possible date/time Denison on October 17th- will confirm next week
• Kenyon and Denison are sharing technical service. Schools will take this opportunity to look at more ways to work collaboratively, learn new trends, have conversation and share best practice in cataloging; As several OWU technical service people have retried, they might be able to work with other schools and figure out ways to collaborate; Technical service staff from all schools are encouraged to attend.
• OWU folks like the format of "Reorganize staff and work" of Summer Institute ( open discussion )
• Planning will continue after committee members have spoken to Tech Services staff about what they want to see and what will be useful

5. Advanced Digital Imaging workshop for TIC

• color correction, preservation etc
• staff dev will fund the workshop

6. Assessment

• start thinking about how we will do this
• remind staff that there is a survey set up for students to take
• faculty input
• we have good assessment evidence ( staff dev events feedback etc), will help other folks to put together the assessment.

7. Faculty Workshops

• start thinking about it
• do we fund them to go to external outlets or internal ones?
• Food for thoughts: bring IT folks to talk about pedagogical tools, workshop + lunch bag
• Identify local needs, set aside money for each school to meet the needs of faculty
• Carol suggests Ray to come to talk about OA at OWU.
• Denison will possibly hold faculty workshop that shows off thier digitization tools and talks about digital projects
• Will start with OWU and Denison, then evaulate before having workshops at the other campuses

8. Other webinars, conferences, etc we should know about?
GLCA

• Check the Event Page

TIC meeting notes August 18th

Technical Infrastructure Committee meeting at Oberlin August 18th, 2011

Project updates
Members need to update our project info sheets - images are in there, if we need to update them.
Denison: Costume Collection- coming along nicely, it's almost ready to go; Looking Back Looking Forward- cleaning up metadata; Writing our Story- waiting on transcripts for; Herbarium- is in test and will be harvested into Production; have some journal projects coming.
Kenyon: Things are moving along - the test instance slowness issues have caused some delays, so we're a little behind.
Oberlin: King-Crane- in ContentDM; Geological Images- currently have photo cds, and are using software to extract the tifs; Shansi- coming along really well; Paleantology is having work done by a student over the summer; Borges- faculty member is working on rights; Music for Children- faculty is studying clips; Artist Books- going to happen in the fall once they get a book scanner; Anthropology- lot of work done this summer taking a relational database in MySQL and mapped it to ContentDM.; Musical Iconography- thinking of using the book scanner for this, in the fall; They're waiting on IIP; They have also been working on Web of Science export to DSpace for faculty publications.
Ohio Wesleyan - Media Law- done except OCLC record; History of the book- done except OCLC record; Chinese movie database- working on metadata; Real Estate Atlases- outsourced scanning, slightly stalled over summer; Herbarium- specimens needs to be selected and repaired, taking some time, but student has been working; Japanese skill builder program- working with IS rep for things in Blackboard.
Wooster Farmer's Oral History collection- up and ready to go!

Omeka
At this point, we have four schools using Omeka - OWU and Oberlin are hosting it locally; Wooster and Denison are using the hosted service. Built by the Zotero folks and Omeka is well supported. Should we looking at this consortially?
Quick best idea was - if someone can work with local IT and it's not too hard to get a server going, we could distribute support (admin functions) among several folks.
Or there are funds in the grant to pay for hosting or a server? A one-off application hosting in the cloud would be reasonably priced enough so as to be sustainable.
In the end, consensus seemed to be that a cloud-hosted solution (i.e. GoDaddy.com) may be the best way to go.

Matt's agenda
IR interface for everyone to use. Basically a cleaner version of the Oberlin scholarship theme; delayed to sometime this week; deliverable is a theme document.
Agreed upon the priority list as stated on the website.

Training
Digital Imaging nuts and bolts, will start working on this with Staff Development.
Newspaper Digitization
At the information gathering stage at this point, what state are our newspapers currently in?
Catalina will be putting together a consortial proposal on the "why?"
Developing a request for bids based on the content we find, in terms of outsourcing
METS ALTO - the standard for newspaper digitization; standard in ContentDM
Mark pointed out that we should make sure that the resulting image will work in multiple platforms

Portal site
Things we're hoping to provide - grant generated documentation, links to collections, perhaps a harvested collection or combination harvested collection
start to develop a document which could be a portal content draft
perhaps a blog? Suggestions?

Reminders
Update hardware list on TIC page with any equipment that was purchase with grant funds; Denison is cataloging equipment
Update project info sheets
Administer Student surveys

Promulgating results
Poster sessions- What does a presentation look like?

Next grant possible activities
Internet Archive digitization
Newspaper digitization
instructional technology integration
preserving data sets?