Steering Committee Update -- July 15, 2010

a. Technical Infrastructure
Catalina is studying DSpace, local projects underway, the basic OhioLINK DRC metadata scheme, and project management and calendaring software. She visited Kenyon this week, and Denison is next week. Alan noted that Oberlin (and others in OhioLINK) have been testing DSpace 1.6, which has new batch editing for metadata capabilities, etc.

b. Staff Development
Catalina will create a draft the staff survey Surveymonkey; she’ll incorporate some related questions from a recent Web Junction survey. She and Amy will discuss this soon.

c. Denison has another grant application from the Geosciences and it is out for review.

d. Oberlin reported that ContentDM has a new module with loader flexibility for METS/ALTO newspaper uploads. METS/ALTO is the standard for national newspaper digitization projects which allows keyword and article level access. Kenyon is scanning their current issues of the student newspaper.

e. Mark asked whether we want to have 6-month interim reports, so preparing future reports won’t be so difficult. Susan agreed to do one for the budget. Each institution will prepare one for their activities. Committee chairs will prepare one. A bulleted list is sufficient and we’ll coordinate this with project tracking records that Catalina will keep. Mellon needs the next report from us in March, 2011.