Present: Ashley Augustyniak, Lee Berry, Ron Brashear, David Caruso, Michelle DiMeo, Anna Headley, Hillary Kativa, Stephanie Lampkin, Cat Lu, Gillian Maguire, Erin McLeary, Sarah Newhouse, Daniel Sanford, Patrick Shea, Jim Voelkel
Absent: Andrea Tomlinson
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Software Upgrade and Path to Soft Launch:
- Soft launch target is summer 2017, roughly the 3 year mark from the project start.
- Digital Collections & Web Teams had meeting. We are not waiting for rebranding due to the long timeline.
- The hard launch can wait for the rebranding.
- When the soft launch happens the name hydra in the URL will be replaced with a more meaningful one. This involves talking with Chuck and Ponce.
- Currently there are still have many unknowns with website integration. The goal is to hammer these out in meetings with 2010.According to what people understand, content on the website now 20/10 web contractors.
- Others in the room who met with Web Team regarding digital collection content currently on the website were told it will remain up until Hydra launches then go down.
- It is unclear exactly what that means. The sideshow slideshow will still be there but other images may be taken down.
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- For the soft launch there will be a number of changes to Hydra as it currently is
- Facet browsing will be improved prior to launch (More facet info)
- Search functionality will be extended to additional fields
- The display snippet for search results will be adjusted to show different fields. Creator term(s) will always show regardless of , not the creator term(s) chosengeneric term creator/maker.
- Blank/unused fields in on an item page will be collapsed/hidden
- Sufia will be upgraded from 6.5 to 7.2 to support multi-item works
- Currently Anna is working on building a migration path for 6.5 to 7. Hasn't yet been done in the Hydra community.
- The lightbox display tool will be used for the soft launchinitially after migration, but there is a goal to move to a IIIF compliant viewer, possibly before soft launch.
- Once a Sufia 7 migration is completed, Digital Collections team will provide training for catalogers on the new workflow for it will be done.
Questions:
- What is the timeline for the Sufia 7 migration?
- The aim is November but there are still issues to be worked out before a hard date can be given.
- Will content that goes down on the website be directly mirrored by content in Hydra or will it be taken down without necessarily having the same images in Hydra yet?
- It is unclear if this will be a 1-1 switch or not, but general General consensus seems to be that it will not be a 1-1 mirroring of data.
- Sloan has discussed points of integration (possibly uploading images into Drupal with links back to Hydra) but these are still unclear in details.
- One potential method that was brought up by the website team was to have a Website's basic structure will remain unchanged and Hydra will be added in, possibly as a search box in each section of the website that searches only items matching the section (rare books, archives, museum, etc).
- This Information design is based off user interviews studies the website team has done with Night Kitchen but we have Digital Collections team has not seen those yet.
- The current understanding is that the website's basic structure will remain unchanged and Hydra will be added into that.
- A warning that Library warned that the website tried to mirror automatically pull images from Othmeralia but formatting and resizing issues caused problems. It would be worthwhile to avoid that for Hydra.
- IIIF image viewer on Hydra may allow that to process to be automated in the future to make such formatting more viableso that pulling into Drupal could be more automated.
- Generally speaking most website issues are TBD until a meeting with 2010 20/10 and further details are available.
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Curating Collections:
- The goal of the soft launch is have to something representative of the different sections of the CHF .(Museum, Library, Rare Book, Archives)
- The soft launch won't be limited to access on site, but it will not be announced and it will have the beta tag.
- The initial plan was to handle Meeting this past summer with curators identified 3 broad themes to build the initial digital collection around.
- This has been challenging due to limits such as technical limitations: no Works (multi-page objects) in Hydra, and photography limitationschallenges with space, objects and equipment.
- As a result curators have branched out into other themes as well.
- This is not negative, many has proven to be positive: much of the content found this way selected has been very exciting. (e.g. Second Skin museum exhibit and the Stamp collections were specifically mentionedarchival stamp collections)
- With the soft launch coming, what should be in Hydra and what would be a problem if it was missing?
- Archives: Works is currently limiting content, but there are no major missing areas. Would be happy to launch as-is and keep building.
- Photographs: There are no major missing areas.
- Rare Books: Some major acquisitions that had a high profile should be included in Hydra, such as selections from recent Debus acquisition. The Newton manuscript and the Rittman Manuscripts were mentioned.
- Rittman is not yet cataloged, which needs to be done before it is in Hydra.
- Many user requests for manuscripts, so it would help to put them online. We will start with testing ingest of smaller multi-file works (front and back of a letter) before ingesting books that are several hundred pages long.
- Museum: Chemistry sets are a priority, then glassware, and finally electrochemistry, Given the then electro-chemistry. Given that soft launch date is close to opening of Decay exhibit, some material from the Decay exhibit that should be included, too.
- Pulling some objects for quick photography sessions is a possible idea.
- Objects in the exhibits may be on loan, which so wouldn't go in Hydra. This was an appeal of Spotlight to allow linking the objects from the home institutionat other institutions.
- For StretchSecond Skin, there are objects on the mannequin which can be done prior to the final dressing on Monday.
- The full sized adult mannequin will require some setup in another room, possibly a Conference Center room.
- Standards for mannequin shots are needed.
- An exhibit field on metadata template would be useful to track what digital objects have been in an exhibit. Exhibition history would be tracked elsewhere, but could add multiple fields if used in multiple exhibits.
- How should staff-curated exhibits made via Exhibit Labs be treated? Will they need an entry in the exhibit field?Unsure, but open to future discussion regarding use of Exhibit or Collection fields.
- Oral History: Currently waiting on Works to add objects.
- There are still questions on viewers for both pdf transcripts and audio recordings. Will need to sit down with oral history when ready.
- Modern Library: Things look good.
- A suggestion was given to include scans Ron suggested that Library includes some highlights from recent donor collections (e. The g. Flavor Chemists was mentioned specifically as one to include.
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- Ron and Erin shared the opinion that an eclectic collection was not seen as a flaw as long as some key areas are covered. Others agreed.
Workflow and Processes:
- Archives: Workflow is working well.
- Is a another curation across collection meeting needed, or can curators just check Hydra to see what is currently in and adjust their plans based on that?
- No replies. Michelle noted this idea posed by Michelle was good.
- Should people be allowed to download images? If so what quality do we want to provide?
- At the start of the project there was excitement about a more open access goal.
- Rights and Reproduction (R&R) tends to cost more in salary than is gained from fees.
- Jim asked about embedding metadata in the photos with notes about the CHF being the creator if the image was used widely.
- It was asked how likely users would be to check this
- Another issue brought up was how many online tools strip said metadata.
- Hillary mentioned an intermediary step to have users check a box to acknowledged the R&R terms and details
- This was mentioned due to scholars and publishers often contacting R&R to confirm the permissions. This might be something they can point to.
- JSTOR was specifically mentioned as an example.
- Public domain works should be clear that they do not need any permissions
- Should R&R data be copied into Hydra or linked to the website?
- Anna mentioned that the rights metadata could be there and a link be placed to full R&R data on another page.
- Sarah brought up the difference between the legal requirements and the best practice ethical goals when dealing with this issue and that is a good idea to distinguish between them.
- A broad concern was to make sure that the user understands what their rights are in regard to the image, be as clear as possible what they can do.
- An example was mentioned by Jim about another library adding a copyright warning on public domain works. (I forgot to type the full name of the University library in question -Dan)
- A citation link/page/object was mentioned as a way to make things easier. (Not sure how this compares to the current citation tool export links. -Dan)
- This was mentioned due to scholars and publishers often contacting R&R to confirm the permissions. This might be something they can point to.
- At the start of the project there was excitement about a more open access goal.
- A desire for analytics about downloads and other use was brought up.
- Some of this is possible in Google Analytics, other parts may use the Sufia reporting tools.
- Cat gave a list of current goals for facet browsing:
Anchor facetbrowsing facetbrowsing - Subject/Topic
- Maker/Creator
- Genre
- Type
- Division
- Date
- Rights
- Lower priority facets were listed as
- Language
- Place
- Medium
- Collection
- A date slider was mentioned as a desired tool for the date facet.
- Date boxes would also be included.
- Anna explained how fuzzy dates are handled in the index (1910s indexes as 1910, 1911, etc in the index)
- Do we need to bring content from the current website collections into Hydra?
- Archives: No
- Photos: No
- Museum: No
- Modern Library: No
- Moving forward there will be user groups for the linked data work.
- When Sufia 7 is ready there will be workflow training on the new aspects.
- Oral histories will wait until after the soft launch for integration.
- A second developer is in the works thanks to Gore fund and board money. They might work on oral histories.
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