Notes from January 12, 2012 MHCC meeting

Owned by Lindsey Loeper
Last updated: Mar 07, 2012
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Current list of members:

  • Rich Behles (University of Maryland, Baltimore)

  • Jason Domasky (Baltimore County Public Library)

  • Aiden Faust (University of Baltimore)

  • Jenny Ferretti (Maryland Historical Society)

  • Susan Graham (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

  • Jennie Levine Knies (University of Maryland, College Park)

  • Jeanette Lichtenwalner (Columbia Archives)

  • Lindsey Loeper (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

  • Ellen Mulligan (NARA Mid-Atlantic Region)

  • Barbara O'Brien (McDaniel College)

  • Christine Reilly (CECOM History Office)

  • Michael Scott (Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage)

  • Rob Shindle (United Methodist Historical Society)

  • Jason Speck (University of Maryland, College Park)

Using the feedback from the 2011 survey of MHCC members (see survey results in the Spring 2011 Newsletter) the Wiki subgroup has reformed as the Online Content Development subgroup. Our task will be to research other platforms and re-consider MHCC's online presence. Members of the subgroup will each look at a possible platform and report back to the group pros/cons. Possible platforms include WordPress, Drupal, MediaWiki, Omeka. MHCC members also suggest: LOC's Recollection, LOC's Viewshare, Blogspot, Ning (for list serv). During the discussion we identified four areas of inquiry:

  1. A web space to reach researchers and promote the MHCC member institutions and all MD history and culture organizations

  2. A web space for collaboration amongst MHCC members, to share meeting minutes, etc. - this could be the same or different from #1

  3. Migration of the current e-mail reflector to a system that will allow for searching and reviewing old messages

  4. Identify registers or online lists of repositories to share our repository information, such as ArchiveGrid

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