Ian's Digital Weblog

A post Thanksgiving update! This past week I finished cropping (perhaps) a final batch of images so they're ready to be uploaded when I get back(which should put us well over 400 uploaded items). I also read through and amended (a small part) of the memorandum of understanding for the Glenister collection. Tiffany recently emailed us with a list of images to be rotated and renumbered, but we are still waiting on new metadata. I also talked to Mark about the interface requirements, which were fairly straightforward. I expect we'll have that up sometime in the next week, the most difficult part being crafting or finding some introductory text for each collection (perhaps we can enlist the Geoscience department for the Glenister collection?).

Last week for seminar, the digital fellows attended a presentation by Dr. Furuta of Texas A&M University. Furuta related some of the expectations and goals of several humanities based projects he has worked on for the center of digital libraries. I found it interesting that the center for digital libraries exist somewhat autonomously from the library, but also serves as a bridge for collaboration between the library and various departments. I think the goal of balancing the needs of specialized departments (researchers, faculty) and the general public (patrons of the library) has significant applicability to our inter-departmental, albeit much smaller scale digital projects.