In our meeting today we basically focused on two things: the work of our Research and Editorial Team and how to keep this Developing Librarian blog vital and varied–reflective of the vital and varied nature of our own experiences working on this project.
Our Research and Editorial Team consists of Mary Cargill and Elizabeth Davis. They shared with the group a preliminary list of sources for Morningside Heights history. The question arose of how this team’s work on metadata will be coordinated with the work of other teams and individuals. It was agreed that they will wait until people start posting more items to the project site to assess the metadata issues that are arising. It was further agreed that people should make use of the Library of Congress Authorities file: http://authorities.loc.gov/ wherever that file provides a name for a building or other site on which they are working. Bob suggested that there are many kinds of documents that have overarching significance for Morningside Heights: for example, manuscript census records. He will work with the Research and Editorial team to get some of these types of documents incorporated into our site.
This blog has gone through some lull periods and has lately become more active again now that the group has been gathered into teams. We would like it to become more consistently active, however. We agreed on a plan in which each of our four teams in weekly rotation would be asked to do a posting. (Those teams are: Design; Research and Editorial; Project Management; and Development.) Blog entries are about process and they don’t need to be long.
The Design Team will have two logo designs ready to show the group at our June 3 meeting. They have been learning Illustrator, which is very different from Photoshop. The Development Team continues to work on Git. And Project Management continues to plan our agendas.
