Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
See below... sent to all of you via email as well. Christine, I copied the message to you via the UB Learns email tool since I didn't have your email...
Hi all,
It looks like we have been welcomed aboard to the Tibetan Language DL team. There is one other person involved as well -- Tricia. In her post she forgot to mention Christine as part of the team as well. I will post that Christine needs to be included as well per my earlier post to Craig after class last Thursday. This will mean there are eight people on the team, but if you read Craig's post about the possibilty of doing some video and the whole text to speech idea, I think we could certainly argue that there will be enough work for everyone.
So... since we asked to be a part of this team and we were already welcomed, my personal feeling is we should just go with the Tibetan Language project -- the full team is already in place, the material is already in place, Craig knows the material very well, and time is running out...
Agreed? Or do you strongly disagree?
~ Lynn
Hi all,
It looks like we have been welcomed aboard to the Tibetan Language DL team. There is one other person involved as well -- Tricia. In her post she forgot to mention Christine as part of the team as well. I will post that Christine needs to be included as well per my earlier post to Craig after class last Thursday. This will mean there are eight people on the team, but if you read Craig's post about the possibilty of doing some video and the whole text to speech idea, I think we could certainly argue that there will be enough work for everyone.
So... since we asked to be a part of this team and we were already welcomed, my personal feeling is we should just go with the Tibetan Language project -- the full team is already in place, the material is already in place, Craig knows the material very well, and time is running out...
Agreed? Or do you strongly disagree?
~ Lynn
Friday, January 30, 2009
Contacting...
Hey all--
Jacinta fowarded contact information of Pride Center of WNY and GLBT Archives of Western NY for us. I already sent email and included my and Janet's telephone numbers, (Sorry Janet, its' random choice).
Hope to hear good news from them.
Jacinta fowarded contact information of Pride Center of WNY and GLBT Archives of Western NY for us. I already sent email and included my and Janet's telephone numbers, (Sorry Janet, its' random choice).
Hope to hear good news from them.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Hi all!
A couple things...
First, the Hallwalls project is a no go. After talking with Carolyn again I found out they are just not at the stage yet where they are ready to set up their digital library. They have several more steps to go through before they can do that, including preserving their media materials before they can even start digitizing and doing streaming video clips of them. They are also planning a total website redesign and incorporating a digital archive into that. They won't be ready for this until later in the spring and we may already be done with the semester by then. So... perhaps the Canisius project will work out, or the Holocaust one. According to the discussion board there are two other people currently interested in that - Joe and Christine. Or, something else may come up.
Second, in the Team Project description Dr. Wang says to use open source software, but in the first class he said we are not restricted to that. I think he recommends it though because it's freely and easily available. But if we go with Canisius it would probably be ideal to use what they've already got, especially since we are encouraged to work with actual libraries and their existing collections. It wouldn't make sense to have to use open source software if that's not what Canisius has and/or wants. I guess depending on what project we decide to do, we should double check with Dr. Wang before moving forward.
Okay, that's all for now. See you all on Thursday... Lynn
A couple things...
First, the Hallwalls project is a no go. After talking with Carolyn again I found out they are just not at the stage yet where they are ready to set up their digital library. They have several more steps to go through before they can do that, including preserving their media materials before they can even start digitizing and doing streaming video clips of them. They are also planning a total website redesign and incorporating a digital archive into that. They won't be ready for this until later in the spring and we may already be done with the semester by then. So... perhaps the Canisius project will work out, or the Holocaust one. According to the discussion board there are two other people currently interested in that - Joe and Christine. Or, something else may come up.
Second, in the Team Project description Dr. Wang says to use open source software, but in the first class he said we are not restricted to that. I think he recommends it though because it's freely and easily available. But if we go with Canisius it would probably be ideal to use what they've already got, especially since we are encouraged to work with actual libraries and their existing collections. It wouldn't make sense to have to use open source software if that's not what Canisius has and/or wants. I guess depending on what project we decide to do, we should double check with Dr. Wang before moving forward.
Okay, that's all for now. See you all on Thursday... Lynn
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Welcome!
Hello Everyone! Just as an update I spoke with my practicum supervisor and it appears that they are already up an running with Content DM software at Canisius. For our purposes I believe we need to be working with something open source. Do you three know of any open source Digital library programs that are used in Archives? I would like to check one out this week.
Janet
Janet
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