Dsg 2014-03-06

DSG Staff meeting, March 6, 2014

Meeting Notes: Please add, reorder, edit, as needed.

DSG Planning

• Project tracking
  • Needs to be tracked/inventoried/cataloged
  • Perhaps in PODIO using a Wordpress plugin
  • What types of information
    • Who's involved, what their roll is, who needs access
    • Status of the project
    • Start date
    • Resources needed: server space, installations
    • What is being paid for
    • Access restrictions
    • IP information
    • Description for public consumption
    • Main contact person
    • URL for the project itself
    • Logo
    • Description of DSG contribution
    • Technologies used
    • Grants, proposals submitted
    • Links to press -- this project in the news
    • Links to documentation
    • Links to open source components and code
    • Topic/subject categorization, tags (e.g. content)

• Programs

• Outreach and marketing, including within the library/Website
  • Library page references Digital Scholarship Services
  • Wordpress is now the website we were originally considering
    • Hot sheets, policies, programs
  • Wiki is mainly internal
    • Meeting notes
    • internal policies
    • drafts
    • internal documentation
    • master, editable documents

• DSG policy areas to work on
  • What services/resources we offer
  • Curation - long term support, maintenance of DSG projects
  • Best practices for documentation
    • where to keep, what to keep, how often to "groom"

• Other?
  • Who we are - expertise sharing
  • Knowledge of peers - understanding of the people around us

2014 Goals

• Launch DSG: web site, staff, first iteration of strategic plans
• Write three major proposals in support of DSG projects
• Develop project tracking database plus web visibility
• Roll of first phase of DRG DRS related services
• Develop native DSG workshop series