2017-03-09

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  • We've been having server issues today. Omeka sites and some WWP sites are still offline.
  • We will be having a Wikipedia visiting scholar!
  • Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a well-known wikipedian invested in women's history. She will likely be joining us in mid-march
  • Podio impact stats are high - we make up a significant chunk of consultations given.
  • Jacqueline Wernimont will be visiting next week - Monday there will be a panel in room 90 at 10:30, and then a workshop at 11 on Tuesday.
  • Information about the move.
  • Patrick thinks the DSG goals were both spot-on and ambitious.
  • He reframed the goals under the lenses - the final version can be found in the DSG Only Docs folder.
  • Two R and I people will be joining us for Toolkit meetings around projects, to foster connections.
  • Jess and Julia have been working on the Cherokee Language Project, which focuses on preservation and education of Cherokee.
  • The problem they are working on is how the data for Cherokee lives in a system like Charon.
  • They showcased a diagram of workflows/work types and the ways they connect and call upon each other within the system.
  • This work is valuable for any translation-related work.
  • Also showed a few tools like Alpheios and CorA.