Dsg 2015-02-19
Announcements
- An ad for the GIS position has been posted. Mid-May is the "aggressive expectation" for hiring someone for this position.
- An undergraduate has been hired to work on the Arader Prints Project. He/she will most likely have a work space in 260 Snell.
- On Friday, February 27th, DissCo will host its first event of the semester in the DSC. There will be pizza.
DSG Staff Updates
Our primary topic of discussion was providing updates on DSG staff / affiliate work.
Hillary is working on the proposal for the Scholarly Communications Institute. She is also working with Dave DeCamp on ways of customizing OJS (focusing specifically on finding and documenting best practices as they relate to design questions and issues).
Juliahas resumed discussions with Ben Schmidt (History) about Bookworm and the DSG. There was a grant proposal that focused on incorporating Bookworm into the interface of DSG projects that was turned town but will be revised and submitted elsewhere. Julia is also meeting to discuss server needs for Bookworm at the library.
Julia is also working with a group that is working on scholarly communication in the digital age for an event at Northeastern from April 27-28. The event is invitation-only, but there will be outcomes like white papers, potential grant proposals, etc.
The DSG has its goals as part of the library's strategic planning exercises for the year:
- To develop a formal program for DSG workshops and educational programs (a regular, predictable annual process)
- To engage library staff engaged or involved in digital scholarship projects and methods
- To continue work on the DRS Toolkit
- To develop data curation and data management activities (Jen Ferguson will be involved here)
Syd spent a lot of time dealing with a Subversion error, which required a move to a new server. He's also working on a spacing problem (concerning words that are hyphenated due to a space issue in original publication contexts) in the WWP encoding work that may have wider implications for TEI work beyond the WWP.
Sarah S. has been working on spreading the word about the DRS Project Toolkit via the faculty newsletter. She is working with DSG projects: specifically, the Catskills project (overseeing the work David Castillo [Simmons intern] is doing on MODS records) and with Stephen Sadow on the metadata included in his poetry project. Sarah also mentioned that she has finished the first round of usability testing on the DRS, which means it should be ready for launch by the end of February.
Ashley has been bug-hunting for TAPAS and the WWP, brushing up on Javascript (via Code School), and considering an application to the Balisage conference.
Linda has been reading up on Vagrant and Virtual Box and learning more about virtual servers.
Amanda has been working on summaries / types of events and documenting them on the DSG wiki, thinking about best practices for projects, working with Eli, and doing some library instruction work on Wikipedia for an Online Communities course in the Communications department. She is working on the timeline for project check-ins in April and May. Jim will help with coordinating and agenda items for these relevant meetings.
Jim has met with Amanda to discuss Podio and DHQ to discuss bibliographic developer work (and he has updated relevant wiki pages). He has been working with Sarah C. on getting the first DissCo event up and running and planning future events. He is also working on a proposal for a summer digital event (and applying for funding for the event via the Humanities Center).