Present: Ashley Augustiniak, Lee Berry, Ron Brashear, Michelle DiMeo, Hillary Kativa, Stephanie Lampkin, Cat Lu, Gillian Maguire, Erin McLeary, Jay Muhlin, Sarah Newhouse, Jim Voelkel
Absent:
Updates on soft launch and usability testing
- MD: We tested all first-time users, from all across CHF, selected 10 out of 15 broad demographic, reseasrchers, general public, the uninitated
- Gave them a few tasks, screencast, took notes, got lots of data out of it that is informing how we're changing layout, some design stuff, and some stuff to discuss with the committee
- In soft launch - discoverable, not indexed in Google yet, slowly happening, such as unexpected Beckaman stuff
- Ppl coming from Malta and South Korea
- Not linking to main CHF website, and not promoting yet
- Good news is stability!
- Metadata - subjects/topics
- Thinking of putting subjects higher than description, would need subjects to be "aboutness"
- Rights Statement
- Users find RS.org to be confusing - the problem is they click on the rights statement and they don't understand what they're reading, much more used to CC PD license
- We added a PD checkbox under search
- No known copyright and No copyright US not discoverable currently - is that okay? How to address?
- AA: If someone wants PD, they just want to search very quickly
- GM/HK: more research focused users may know more about navigating rights, or would contact R&R
- LB: No Copyright-US, as a blogger am I meant to walk away with the expectation that I can use that image?
- HK: Risk tolerance about being reasonably sure that a No-C-US can be labeled PD instead
- GM: What about taking a more conversational approach with RS.org statements/icons. Such as: "can i use this? yes! probably, etc."
- RB: Going with PD checkbox seems a decent start, can see how things go
- MD: Try this, but using admin notes to work with PD stuff, and let us know if other concerns come up
- Language
- German/Latin long titles, whether to flip translated titles?
- RB: Still in discovery phase, let's wait and see if we get pushback
- MD: File it for more user testing
- Redesign show page
- Lots of oohs and aahs!
Timeline to hard launch and priorities
- Told to hard launch with the rebrand - don't know what it means
- Color and styling will be the same, titles will be changed, not sure where it will sit on the webpage
- Have 108 open issue tickets, now with Anna gone and just Jonathan, so we'll be prioritizing the issues
- Would want links in OPAC to records around hard launch - integrations, talk to Andrea
- AA: Can we tell fellows to use it yet?
- MD: Not yet, partly bc we want to user test it with them
Approve new credit line to be used after re-branding
- Right now it's "Courtesy of CHF Collections"
- Need to recommend to Communications team with new Science History Institute name
- GM: Do we really need "Courtesy of?"
- RB: Feeling fine about dropping the "Collections" part because the assumption is there, okay with that at least for now
- Additional Credit Line: for things like Neville?
- RB: Dont recall ever seeing formal documentation, knows it was agreed upon, but will look into that with Suzanne to see if we are bound to that
- May come up in the future with March of Dimes
- GM/SL: Want to consider Eddleman and Fisher
- PS: Credit line is different than citations, some of this only comes up for citations
- Provenance for museum field can be put in the future
Review new procedure for on-demand photography (R&R)
- HK: Discussed changes to R&R workflow with Jay being fulltime and with Digital Collections being up
- Highlights from doc: majority of how requests are handled is not changing, Gillian and Hillary will receive requests
- No fees for existing digital images, just a slight service fee for 10+ images
- For new digitization, will refer request to the curator of materials to coordinate with Jay for photography (both internal and external)
- R&R tab on the digitization queue, turn around time for ondemand is about 2 weeks for L/A and 4 -6 for Museum
- Old fee structure was around use cases, but rethinking fee structure toward actual labor involved
- 2-D and 3-D photography structure, link document here
- Last year, invoiced 6 requests, this year invoiced 4 so far (out of 70 external requests)