Goal

Responsible Parties

Status

Priority / Time frame

Revise Digital Collections Best Practices Document: include equipment and software we have; include basis for determining priority: uniqueness, national/world importance of the collection, curriculum support, usage, rights, condition of the materials, donor request, etc.

Vicki, Tom, Lindsey

In progress.  Will make .doc a wiki page and will have a meeting before end of December 2009

Post scanning instructions on wiki

Susan, Lindsey

COMPLETED

Post data dictionaries on wiki

Vicki

In process.  Will post project-specific data dictionaries (SG, LL).  SG send VS Hughes metadata fields.

Conditions of Use:  revise SC rights & reproduction page (including a section for UMBC-created materials & ETDs), making a link from CDM to a new window to this page

Susan, Tom, Janet

Janet has posted link from CDM, Tom and Susan need to revise the page.

Tom & Susan will complete by end of December

End of December 2009

Procedures & workflow:  Susan will create a page on wiki and everyone and post their core procedures and project workflows

All members

https://spaces.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7537871
 In progress

Update photo collections scanning priorities

Tom

Tom distributed a copy.  A copy will be posted to the wiki.  Must decide on priority, identify grants.  TB will upload to wiki 11-17-09

Funding/support for more students to scan:  Lynda will request from LEC

Lynda

ON HOLD

Funding for new flatbed scanner:  Tom will request from LEC/Larry

Tom

Book scanner has arrived.  Tom will ask re:  flatbed again.  RW may still supply us one.
TB will give demo on book scanner.

Consortial CONTENTdm group:  Talk with counterparts at Towson, UB, St. Mary's to determine interest in a local group

Lindsey, Susan, Janet, Vicki

Will discuss with Jennie Levine, Director of UMCP DCR on 10/20/09.  LL will ask the USMAI archivists' groups.

CONTENTdm launch: promote (Insights, Retriever, myUMBC spotlight, tutorial, etc.); train (train Reference Librarians; train campus staff through Training & Development dept.); More ideas?

Susan, Janet, Joe, Vicki, Lindsey

https://spaces.umbc.edu/display/library/CONTENTdm+Launch+Schedule
COMPLETED
Anna Yip working on tutorial
UMBC Magazine will be doing an article on Digital Collections 12/4/09

Donate link on the CDM page:  Tom will talk to Alla about this; can ask Alumni Center or other dept. that currently do this.

Tom

In progress

EAD Finding Aids

Lindsey

Hold off until all collection level records are in PP.  Desired Timeframe: Summer 2010

Online Exhibits:  can't use Omeka.  Susan and Janet will put up first exhibit re: Sci fi pulps and fanzines by Amy McGarrahan and Nicole Smith

Susan, Janet

COMPLETED: Janet has uploaded Sci fi pulps & fanzines online exhibit

Other ideas:
The poster exhibition
WPA photos?
Chim (David Seymour)
Photos of cameras through the ages
Photo history
Actor's portfolio
Merkle Collection drawings
Photos of Maryland or by Maryland photographers
Jaquish
Fichter

2.0:  Susan will look for UNLV code that includes capacity for user generated comments, tags, etc.  Other ideas??

Susan, Janet

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/dmbridge/
http://www.contentdm.org/USC/usermeetings/Dolski-Egan.pdf

Other forms of promotion: putting more photos on Flickr, putting links in wikipedia, open library

Susan, Lindsey

University photos on Flickr.  More links on wikipedia in progress.
Open Library: SC students are checking what is scanned already vs. what we have.
 Flickr Commons:  (LL has applied...waiting for reply) Hughes, Hine, other out of copyright

Grants & Collaborations

Tom (LC & Eastman House, MDHS),  Susan, Vicki

Hughes Co. & Panorama (portal w/MD Hist Soc?) > TB spoke w/Jenny Ferretti from MD Hist. Soc.  Waiting to hear about their situation first.  MDHS has scanned & described their Hughes (but not those from the Peele Museum).  Look up amount of images, etc.
Grossman (Possible CLIR Hidden Collections grant)
TB: Hine & LC & Eastman House collaboration

Other Projects??
MDCH> Latrobe papers --  handwritten speeches are being scanned by MDCH: FREE!
IUIS> have given $ to maintain collection and we'll use that money to scan their meeting minutes  -- work w/Michael Dick to use feeder scanner & have student do a web exhibit

WorldCat Sync>  upgraded, now have capability

In progress
MDCH will begin to scan in January