The project idea chart used for July 22, 2008 DSG meeting:
In preparation for our July 22 meeting, each library should pick two ideas to develop as upcoming projects. One or both should be OCA-friendly projects. These could be ideas from the existing lists on the DSG wiki or new ideas. Enter your project ideas and designate the sponsor in the chart below.
Library | Project Idea | Sponsor | Appropriate for OCA? |
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Archives | 1865-1903 Annual Reports to the President | Archives staff | no? |
Archives | Early MIT publications and administrative reports | Archives | no |
Barker | Heat Transfer Lab reports | Angie Locknar/CR | Yes? |
Barker | Vail Collection Books | Carol Robinson | Yes |
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Humanities | Communication Forum | Baudoin/Manoff | yes |
Humanities | Ellen Swallow Richards | Baildon/Archives | ? |
Rotch | McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars | Jennifer Friedman | No |
Rotch | AMS Map Series | Lisa Sweeney | No |
Science | Anderson Solar Energy Tech Reports | Michael Noga | Yes? |
Science | NBS Special Publications -- being scanned by someone else | Michael Noga | Yes |
Archives
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- Annual Reports of the MIT President
- Course catalogs
- Faculty minutes
- Corporation minutes
- Theses
- MIT Publications
- Faculty research notebooks (Edgerton, Forrester, Rossi, etc.)
- Hale audio tapes
- O'Sullivan photographs
- Gaffield glassmaking collection: papers and selected rare books
- Oral history audio tapes
- Events videos (commencement, etc.)
- CAVS
- MIT 150th Oral Histories
- Laptop and hard drive
Dewey
- Born-digital items
- Sloan Working Papers (HD28.M414)
ESL
Digitization
1.1 Technical reports (high priority)
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1.4.1 Water Resources reports
1.4.2 Solar Energy Technical Reports at LSA (Anderson collection)
Microcards (micro-opaques)
- Boston Photo Imaging currently has several of these and has found a way to scan them. Beverly has a meeting the week of August 11th to discuss their suggestions. Jenn Morris suggested these links:
- http://www.merrittgraphics.com/services/scanning/capabilities.php
http://www.donnegan.com/Document_Imaging___CDs.html
http://www.crowleymicrographics.com/
http://www.databankimx.com/document_management.htm
And here's some places that sell the equipment to scan microcards: http://e-imagedata.com/
Preservation/Migration Projects
2.1 Dark Diskettes Archive (medium priority)
2.2. At-risk conference proceedings archive (medium priority)
Humanities
- Authors@MIT sound tapes
- Oral histories from the Music Department
- Hale audio tapes
- Communications Forum sound and video tapes
Rotch
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- McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars
- Web-only/born digital publications on planning
- AMS series maps
- Boston map collection
- Pamphlet collection
- Visual Arts Program (VAPCenter for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) - Current Projects
- Pamphlet collection (Planning subdivision)
- Boston Maps collection
- Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) archivesKidder-Smith slide collection
- Maurice Smith digital image collection
Themes:
- Boston Theme projects
- Energy Theme projects