2015-07-23

Recurring strands/themes

• Amanda introduces, way to keep track of the larger threads of DSG work, Julia may have more specifics to add

Workshops and outreach

• planning Sep or Oct workshops now is a good idea
• having workshops from end of Aug to mid Sep is not a good time -- generally busiest time of year for faculty, new students, and most library staff
  • If proposing library staff help with launch in September, often good to schedule training/internal practice for August

DRS workshops

Sweeney had some target-specific training sessions on DRS last year, now planning to re-institute formal scheduled events to help people get ready for the Fall

• events open to broader library (and anyone else) audience. Sarah has many different formats planned, demos, questions, training, so that she can respond to whatever audience wants
• goal is both that attendees will have ability to provide support, and Sarah gets an idea of current needs

DSG/NULab Open House in Fall (late Sep, early Oct)

• NULab likely to partner with us
• looking for “lightweight but substantive” format, where NULab and DSG folks have informal poster session, projecting recent work on a laptop or screen and stand around for questions
• What are lessons from previous Open House that didn't have many attendees, and what should the format be for an Open House?
  • Poster-style presentations: have a certain number of slots (spaces), let folks sign up first come first serve. Spaces include: large screens, mediascapes, pinwheels
  • (AL): Or have a panel? Informal Q&A -- chance to people to ask questions about projects. Something showing specific application: here's how to use in your classroom or own work. Get people in door for discussion, then can circulate for petting zoo.
  • Suggestion (SS): panel that handles both Q&A and pre-established topic; may work particularly well if topic(s) quite broad. Similar to Discussions @ DSC series. Should still pose a guiding question, topics might be:
    • sharing open data
    • representation of physical materials online
    • best practices for sharing credit
• Final suggested format: two periods: get people in the door for a discussion first, then have the petting zoo (“discussion @ XX:00, followed by an open house/petting zoo/Project Menagerie/DH Melange”).
  • In publicity, need to note that discussion starts at a specific time, since "Open House" implies drop-in any time
  • Top marketing idea: bring NU Husky mascot, create two extra felt heads for Ceberus, make it a real petting zoo.
• Jen Anderle likes plenty of advance notice; have told her informally that we will have this event, but don't have a firm date yet so left it at that

Open October

• HC is planning on Oct being open access month, rather than have everything in a single week, so there should be fruitful overlap if DH Petting Zoo is held in early October
• We think having snacks is generally a good idea — Julia and E. Dillon (DSG and NULab) to figure out how it gets paid for, some funding for OA-related events
• H & Julia have been discussing having separate OJS sessions (also envisioned for Oct): possibly first a general session about new modes of dissemination, then a more specific "so you want to start an open access journal?"

Other workshops

August

• Julia is planning a schema workshop
• Amanda is planning lightweight DSG technology hour-long event internal to library, will likely asks folks for help. Lib staff have asked for brief demo of technologies used
  • XML
  • Twitter
  • [two others]
• Sarah's DRS workshops (discussed above)

Fall

• Will WWP be doing their workshops in Fall? WWP folks will work on this.
• Abbie is hoping to continue Jim's Open Office Hours and Working Group and DissCo
  • Sarah C could help Abbie w/ DisCo
  • perhaps to be combined with a speaker series (NULab may have funding for that?)
• There is funding available for speakers during Oct on the theme of open access (open source, open whatever), can work with HC on that
• WWP is likely to do another set of XML/TEI/WWP training in the fall for their own internal new employees — not open to public, but given individuals would be welcome
• Another Omeka workshop? Dave and Jim held one and solicited feedback from attendees, may have useful insights
• Amanda hoping Bahare and new data visualization person would do an intro GIS / data visualization event (or two separate events) in late Oct or Nov
  • library staff has shown interest in basic visualizations or Google Map API
  • perhaps first have internal library staff event, to give presenters practice, then have second session open to public