2015-10-01

DLAX There is a planning grant at Middlebury College. They want to get DH to smaller colleges which can often not afford the staffing and space. They want to partner with a network to defray cost burden. Large institutes can also benefit. Outsourcing, however, has several downsides. For instance, who gets to make decisions about priority?

Greg and Param have arrived! They are the new DSG research assistants.

Thoreau project has been approved, they will fill out a form and begin collecting metadata.

Passas has copyright issues, so they might only get an Omeka install, since we can't own any of the content.

On the topic of DMCA requests: ITS takes care of it.

We talked about hosting space, but according to Karl have several years before it's a real worry.

Data Management Planning: It's more like information asset management. We want example documents to share, so the WWP is being volunteered. There will be an info session on Data Management Planning We, during this process we want to encourage open access to data. We start building DMPs immediately following the intake process.

Snellebration is upcoming. We will be reusing a good amount of material from the Open House.