2017-05-11

• Dan Cohen, the new Dean of Libraries, is visiting
• Introductions
• Dan has a vision for a more unified library and we’re hoping a part of that is having more digital opportunities in other places.
• We’re invested in curation because of experiences we’ve had watching previous sites collapse
• We want to build unified digital mechanisms, and support strong faculty partnerships, and prefer to leverage these relationships to make toolsets as opposed to individual mechanisms
• We cultivate quite a few areas of expertise, and work to assure they’re executed well and gracefully
• We also provide mentoring and pedagogy
• We also do research, on top of our expertise and pedagogy
• We also have several self supporting projects that live within our unit - WWP, WHQ, etc
• DRS is part of the library as a whole, contains admin, academic and research materials.
• It contains communities organized according to the university structure
• We often work with individual projects interested in holding materials. This is where CERES comes in!
• CERES is esed to express DRS materials in a WordPress site, because the DRS isn’t really meant for publishing, it’s meant for archiving.
• We have an annual process where we take proposals for enhancements
• We’re looking to make it scalable - so investing development time in things multiple groups will make use of
• This has also expanded into CERES Classroom - we tested this with Prof Aljoe’s class
• We will have a second pilot using CERES Classroom in Connell and DIllon’s class
• The other major development in the coming year is building a workflow software for structured data called Charon.
• It will have three pilots - Cherokee Language, Jesuit Relations, And ECDA. All three want TEI data which can be published and utilized.
• We also offer GIS and dataviz services, including class visits, consults, and workshops, all across the university
• Hillary works with us for open source and research dissemination/publications
• We have complicated relationships with research computing, but certainly want to offer a role of support
• We have a strong relationship with NULab, sharing many people between the groups and co-sponsoring many events.
• They have a common intellectual space, and have complementary roles. NULab is a faculty research group and develops curriculum and projects, while infrastructure, curation, and project management are supported by the DSG.