Dsg 2015-02-05

Announcements and Updates

• Hillary is putting together a proposal for the Scholarly Communication Institute. where members of the DSG might discuss how NU helps to support digital scholarship in its creation, maintenance, validation, etc. She is also considering who from the DSG staff might be best as attendees and will be in touch with these potential participants.
• Jim and Sarah Connell noted that they have created a digital space in Slack where graduate students interested in digital scholarship can have informal conversations, exchange ideas, etc. They will monitor the activity of students in the space and use it as a potential area for DissCo-related ideas and events.
• Julia and Patrick have met with people in the NULaw Lab to discuss their mapping project. The NULawLab and the library will collaborate on grant proposal to fund the adoption of the usable parts of the mapping tools as parts of the DRS Project Toolkit.
• Following up on previous discussions of Archive-It. Julia asked Patrick about the potential that Archive-It could crawl sites related to projects but not hosted on Northeastern's servers. Patrick didn't think it would be a problem in terms of cost, Additionally, the question of Michelle Romero attending an upcoming DSG meeting was again raised.

DRS Project Toolkit Updates

• Sarah Sweeney noted that a blog post is up with information about the DRS Project Toolkit CFP. A blurb that library liaisons can use in communications with faculty has also been written.
• Content about the CFP is also up on the library's main site thanks to communication with Jen Anderle.
• Sarah has also checked in with Steve Sadow and Phil Brown for updates on their projects.
• Next steps in promotion include e-mails to the NULab faculty list and NUDigital list, as well as tweets announcing the CFP.