Much of November and December were spent getting ready for new collections to be added to the DRC, a process now just waiting for the new instances to go live. For this I've worked with stakeholders to select metadata and discussed access and copyright. I've also spent a good deal of time playing in the backend of DSpace so I'll have the knowledge to get the new collections up fast. The upcoming collections include Wooster's IS database and Farmers' oral histories, Denison's relocation camp documents, which will be added as part of GODORT's DRC instance, and the Writing Our Story and Looking Back, Looking Forward collections at Denison, Kenyon's EAD encoded finding aids, OWU's medieval manuscript project, and the Oberlin Scholarship collection, which is up but needs some improvements. Hopefully we'll have all these collections ready to go early next year.
In addition, I've worked with the Technical Infrastructure Committee in the search for the Interface Specialist we'll be hiring next year, and starting a metadata group to bring together staff with different knowledge or interest in metadata. Watch for more news about that in 2011.
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