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- Stalled due to complications with rebranding CHF, so cannot finalize any styling or branding. Digital team plans to show Communications/Web Team a mock-up in April and have them sign-off on timeline to soft launch.
- Focused discussion on how to present collections on this short-term digital collections home. Preview of homepage mock-up to spark discussion: FirstDraftforDCC.pptx
- Beckman Collection will be highlighted for funder (Jody showing them in August.) What other categories do we want to use to highlight our collections? Division, Genre or Subjects? Everyone preferred Subject-based categories over Division (used on current website.)
- Display Sets functionality is coming, where we can curate small groupings. Till then, we will link to a page of existing results.
- Categories that we agreed suggested in the meeting:
- Scientific Instruments (though some concern that Beckman will overwhelm results)
- Portraits and People (one of the most popular at the Smithsonian & already popular with our web users)
- Scientific Education (not currently being used, but could highlight the Museum's chemistry sets and molecular models, among other things in Library and Archives)
- Alchemy (always popular, spans Fine Art and some Rare Books, will probably include new manuscripts)
- Science on Stamps
- Health and Medicine (for more user-friendly option than category Life Sciences)
- Toxicology (another Life Sciences option, could include some of digitized works on warfare and insecticides)
- Women in Science (maybe return to this when we have more women throughout history; should also consider models versus actual women scientists; maybe don't want it with Portraits & People)
- Concerns about existing metadata were raised, particularly about how to get it to conform to these new categories. We don't want to make the data worse by applying relevant information only selectively to some items and not others to which they really should be attached. Additional concern is that much of the metadata needs to be cleaned up and standardized across curators because facets across collections aren't working as well as we want.
- Cat and Michelle will work with these suggested categories above and see how they can best highlight the diversity of CHF's collections using some of these.
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