Present: Ron Brashear, Michelle DiMeo, Anna Headley, Cat Lu, Erin McLeary, Sarah Newhouse, Daniel Sanford, Patrick Shea
Absent: Lee Berry, Dave Caruso, Gillian Maguire, Jim Voelkel
Updates
- A target date for the soft launch has been set for July 17th. A detailed set of milestones has been prepared with a Gantt chart. Included in this process are a number of spots for feedback and buy in. Soft launch means we're opening it to IP addresses outside of CHF, but it won't be linked to CHF website. No target date for this yet. No idea what it will look like or what functionality the integration will have.
- After December meeting, everyone agreed to ordering changes. The adjustments to ordering in metadata fields has just been implemented & we are now using an alpha-sort.
- An additional title field as been added. The new rule for foreign language titles is to use the additional title field for the translation. It will take some time but old records using the [ ] method will be adjusted to fit this.
Home Page Design and Collection Development
- 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 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 (could highlight the Museum's chemistry sets and molecular models)
- Alchemy (always popular, spans Fine Art and some Rare Books, will probably include new manuscripts)
- Science on Stamps
- Health and Medicine (for Life Sciences)
- Toxicology (another Life Sciences option, could include some of 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)
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