Dsg 2015-04-09

Announcements

• Julia and Jim updated staff on recent conversations between the library and The College of Health Sciences re: PT students using the space and the restriction of access to undergraduates.

DRS Project Toolkit: Final Submission Round-up

The DSG reviewed the (final) four additional DRS Project Toolkit submissions received since our last DSG meeting's discussion of potential candidates. Initial review comments on each submission can be found in Podio (via the DRS Project Toolkit app).

One submission from this group of four has led the DSG to consider Omeka's presence / role in the toolkit and how Omeka's interactions with the DRS might benefit teachers and students interested in using Omeka as well as the DRS. Specifically, the DSG is determining how the DRS might efficiently ingest and archive content from class Omeka projects after students and teachers have finished working on content. Preliminary meetings are ongoing to determine the additions to the DRS Project Toolkit that might address these matters.

Jim and Dave DeCamp will collaborate on documentation that makes recommendations for what teachers and students interested in Omeka should consider before working with the technology in class.

We then completed a final overview of all DRS Project Toolkit submissions, determining that there are three candidates that we are interested in accepting, three that we'll follow up with for additional information, two that we'll encourage to re-submit when additional work is completed on their projects (as part of a potential "second wave" of DRS Projects, and two rejections.

The names and additional information here is available (or is in the process of being made available) via Podio (we're keeping it off here since it's a public forum). Additionally, we already have three "proto-pilot" DRS projects in development (outside of this group of proposals).

Jim will begin drafting the language to use in communication with pilot projects, and he will discuss these drafts next week at the next DSG Managers meeting.

DRS Project Toolkit: Tasks, Roles, and Workflow (Preliminary)

After running through the Toolkit candidates, we then began discussing the particular tasks involved in the creation, use, and maintenance of the Toolkit and its use by our first crop of pilot projects. Jim is in the process of typing out and documenting these areas (and the particular members of the DSG team who will complete these tasks), and we're going to re-visit, expand, and revise these duties (as well as organize them chronologically) at our meeting next week.

Jim will store this content on the DSG DRS Pilot Project Workflow page.