1. Development Team Update
The Development Team showed our group the new home page for our Morningside Heights Digital History project site. This new page incorporates an historical map for Morningside Heights with its original colors restored (and slightly heightened for emphasis and clarity). The page surrounding the map was also revised to be in a color scheme that complemented the map. These color scheme revisions originated in decisions made in our Design Team. The revised color scheme represents a departure from our earlier plan of determining a desired color scheme for home page and altering the map coloring to fit that scheme.
2. Transitioning to CUL Server, Current Status and Issues
There were four outstanding questions which LDPD had addressed to our group. They needed to have these questions answered prior to transitioning our Project site onto a server administered by Columbia Libraries. We reached consensus for most of these questions. For example, we do want the project site cataloged. After considering the commitment involved in migrating the site again and again as needed, we agreed that we would: a.) keep it alive until a migration was needed and b.) make sure that it gets preserved as a frozen site. The Development Team was charged with discussing issues for which questions remained.
3. Summer Schedule Various options for a summer schedule were discussed. It was decided, however, to table this discussion until we have understood more about what will be involved in Phase 2 of project. Phase 1 of the project, the Morningside History website, is still slated to be launched in June 2015.
4. Phase 2
The group considered that substantial time and effort had been required for Phase 1 of The Developing Librarian–the construction of the Morningside History project site. For phase 2 we agreed that we would retain the emphasis on developing and enhancing digital skills but abandon the idea of all contributing to a single digital project. Instead, we will work on individual digital projects of our own choosing. We will still dedicate group time to labs and meetings and we will educate one another about our projects.
Action item: Each member should send a description of his or her individual Phase 2 project to Barbara. The Developing Librarian blog will still be actively maintained to chart our progress in Phase 2.
5. Friday open labs
Barbara has sent out invitations to the group for a series of Friday open labs in May and early June. These are optional lab sessions in which group members can work together in finishing up work needed to be done prior to project site launch in June.
