2015-11-19

Steven Braun is our new Data Visualization specialist, and arrived on Monday.

There will be a DSG & NULab holiday party during office hours on the 16th, immediately following the all-staff library party

TEI is now being offered regularly as a language exam option for graduate students.

Bahare is speaking to another class. It seems the school of architecture is very interested in her services in particular.

Introductions and round table:

• Sarah: Working on the DRS.
• Syd: Working on TEI
• Hillary: Working on Digital publishing, currently trying to build a website to display out of print NU publications. (Also mentioned Scalar being something to consider for the future, which has come up before.)
• Ashley: Working with XML and XSLT. Right now concentrating on the "Cultures of Reception" project for the WWP, cleaning up data and creating reports while working with Sarah Connell.
• Sarah Connell: Project manager for the WWP. Right now working on getting exhibits ready for publication, and working on an intertextuality grant with Julia.
• Joey: Working on reformatting and migrating different types of A/V collections. Works heavily lately in preservation and sustainability, helping put together a preservation policy.
• Linda: Working on TAPAS. Right now specifically working with Ruby and PHP.
• Eli: Working on web development and design. Currently works on the library website, TAPAS front end, DRS front end, and DRS Toolkit Development.
• Bahare: Working on consultations on GIS, giving class presentations, geocoding texts for the WWP, and helping coordinate an interdepartmental group of ArcGIS users.
• Amanda: Working on wrapping up the semester, getting information on the semester's activities, and doing wikipedia projects with classes. Also developed with Sarah a workflow for incoming Omeka projects.
• Julia: Working on writing some grants, teaching TEI and XSLT workshops, and working with the new proposal for a Boston Data Center.
• Steven was contracted by CLIR to do a visualization presentation of their data curation fellows. It was very cool and impressive.

We talked as a group about how people often care more about pretty pictures than getting good data and visuals with Data Viz, and how Steven has dealt with that in the past.