Notes: November 6, 2014

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

Held November, 2014

Present:  Chris Awre, Jenn, Melissa, Patricia Hswe, Tracy MacMath, Mark Notess, Cynthia Ramlo, 


 1.       INTRODUCTIONS

 Mark Notess, Indiana University

  • Avalon Product Owner
  • Hydra PageTurner

Cynthia Ramlo, Indiana University

  • Avalon User Experience Designer

Patricia Hswe, Penn State University

  • Head of User Services for Scholar Sphere Institutional Repository

Chris Awre, University of Hull, United Kingdom

  • Hydra Partner

Tracy MacMath, Yale University

  • Hydra and Blacklight

Jenn: Cornell University

  • moving to Hydra

Melissa, Cornell University

  • moving to Hydra

2.       ROUNDTABLE

Patricia showed ScholarsSphere 2.0 scholarsphere.psu.edu. This release includes Word Cloud, Featured Deposit, Researcher of the Month and Latest Deposits.

Chris sent the url for the Hull History Centre catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk

Jenn and Melissa showed Southeast Asia Visions http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/ which includes complex page and book-level metadata, as well as a page turning application.

Cynthia showed the new Avalon production release media.dlib.indiana.edu and discussed some of the new bulk editing features that are currently under development. 

 

3.       DISCUSSION

There was a general discussion of the need for page turning applications, as well as interest expressed in ways of sharing design issued. Following up on a discussion from the recent Hydra Connect meeting there was a discussion of developing a means of asynchronous sharing of designs and deliverables as a means of encouraging feedback and critique. 

 

5. NEXT MEETING

  • December 4th