Olive’s Scrapbook Project

Check it out so you know when you should add stuff!

http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/lis462/Powerpoint_presentation

and here she is : http://gslis.simmons.edu/gsdl07/Henty/orhmainpage.htm

And remember to fill in Tom’s survey! He says…

“The time commitment survey for the digital library cost evaluation has been sent out. If you don’t get it by tomorrow, email Thomas Fulda at fulda@simmons.edu for a resend.

Two things to remember:

First, all responses will be considered anonymously, whatever information you submit will only be used for cost evaluation purposes. Any information that makes it into the report will be at the committee level only; no individuals will be singled out.

Second, I know it’s been a long semester for everyone, so just do the best you can with the time estimates. I don’t expect a minute by minute breakdown of every little thing you’ve done; a ballpark figure should be enough.”

I guess it’s showtime folks! A huge thanks to the Web and Greenstone teams who have worked really hard since last meeting to put together the site for tomorrow’s usability testing.

Agenda

• Usability testing and discussion(75 mins)
• Opening Day (20 mins)
  • potluck
  • who says what
• Candy’s wrap-up

Remember, we are meeting at the BPL on the Copley Square side at 9:30am tomorrow.

After that we are coming back to Simmons and meeting in the Tech Lab for

• A presentation on MS Project (40 mins)
• Intellectual Property discussion (5 mins) - please read the white paper tonight
• Marketing and Fundraising discussion (5 mins) - again, please read the white paper
• Review content (5 mins) - yup, you know what this is going to say…check it out on the wiki
• Figure out exactly where we stand on
  • scanning (done!)
  • metadata
  • web design
  • Greenstone
  • QC/QA
  • etc
• Anything else we have time for

I have three reminders for everyone

1. We are meeting this Thursday at the Boston Public Library (Main Branch - outside on the Copley Square side), at 9:30am. After this we are rushing back to the tech lab for a presentation
2. ALL metadata should be complete. As you finish the PMD please email the team member responsible for QC/QA your pages (Cover - page 12 are Rachael, page 13 to 26 are Tamar, and 27 through the back cover should email Amanda). When you finish your DMD write the code word at the top of your metadata wiki page.
3. Check out the content section put up by Kelli before Thursday
4. Not a reminder, but a celebration…according to Tom we are officially done scanning
5. I’ll post the agenda for Thursday tomorrow.

Hi all,

Hope Thanksgiving was good for everyone. Just a reminder that your descriptive metadata is due today. Make sure when you are finished you should place the code word at the top.

Also, Joelle has created more banner images and would like feed back on those in the discussion page for marketing and fundraising.

See you soon.

A

Cindy was so kind as to put thumbnails of the scrapbook pages up on the wiki . Thanks Cindy!

Hope everyone has a safe and full Thanksgiving

Joelle has posted ideas for the banner to the wiki. Please post comments to the discussion page by Sunday 18 November at 9am. There is a list of questions on the discussion page to help guide your comments.

Thanks!

Or the end is nigh! That’s right gang we have just under a month to finish, I can almost see the end now (there is lots of cake there, just to let you know). Onward…

• First up is the Teaching Resources Content Team (5 mins)
• Then, Marketing with a logo idea
• Next, the usability plan–Please read the white paper before class (15 mins)
• And last, but not least Greenstone will let you in on what all they’ve been doing (20 mins)

Tom has gone through the first batch of finished scans, and he has done corrections for some of them. Mostly, just renaming files etc. So if you got the email about corrections please be sure to change your metadata to match what he has done.

That trick I mention is as follows… Tom says “This isn’t listed in the instructions, but I rotated all
images so that up is up.  (acheived using Photoshop pull-down sequence “Image”/”Rotate Canvas”/”90 degrees CC”).  If objects have been pasted into the scrapbook sideways, I rotated objects at the item level so that up is up.”