7.20.06
notes by Nancy Reis
Members present:
Alemneh
Belden
Fredericks
Hall
Hoffmann
O’Connor
Phillips
Reis
The minutes of May 11 and June 8 were approved.
Nancy brought up some lessons learned from the Texas Soil Survey Project. There was a brief discussion of quality control and efficiency for various types of activities. We will be hiring a new middle manager in the fall who will take charge of developing appropriate work flows. Meanwhile, we should all be thinking about problems we’ve encountered in our projects and possible solutions to those problems.
Daniel presented the following updates:
Brandon is working on a standardized framework that will help us prepare consistent tutorials for metadata entry, scanning, and other training areas as needed. He has put up a Wiki page outlining considerations and showing good and bad examples. (http://digitalprojects.library.unt.edu/wiki/index.php?page=dpd%2FDocumentation%2FFramework) Because the look and navigation in the tutorials will be affected by the library website redesign, we are concentrating on content and appropriate organization.
The tool is available at http://digitalprojects.library.unt.edu/metadata/.
Some additions are needed to the metadata template:
Hardware: Canon 20D camera, Canon D30 camera, Canon PowerShot S80 camera, Bookeye scanner
Software: Canon EOS Viewer Utility 1.1.0
Nathan discussed metadata for the miniature books pilot project and presented a prototype metadata record. He is seeking suggestions for the best way to prepare individual metadata records for books that are cataloged as a collection in the Libraries’ online catalog. He will be working with the Rare Books staff to refine the metadata as well.
We also confirmed:
Our next meeting will be Thursday, August 24, at 1:00 p.m. Daniel will work with MMDL to schedule our department’s web redesign content meeting for the same afternoon.