Week Two
This week I met with Lorna Truck, retired DMPL Director and all around guru, my mentors, and other great people from the marketing department to discuss the overall plan for the projects. We talked about connecting with the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections as a way to broaden the scope and impact of the project. What are our goals and how will they align with the IDHC? In their words the IHDC is “an online repository of Iowa history and culture created by bringing together in digital form documents, images, maps, finding aids, interpretive and educational materials, and other media from collections held by a wide range of organizations throughout Iowa.” How can we be sure that our collection is appropriate and will enrich the collection?
The State of Iowa Library will soon take over the project and they will be making available multiple CONTENT dm licenses for libraries around the state to use. Some of the deadlines for this were altered due to the flooding and it is not currently clear exactly when CONTENT dm will be available. From this meeting, we decided that not only should contact with IDHC move forward, but that I should work on a project plan utilizing the framework Joe prescribed. Also, I would make contact with IDHC. Nancy Kraft is the Committee Chair for IDHC and happened to be attending the Consortium of Iowa Archivists meeting that I was also going to on Friday. I emailed her and we decided to have a chat during the luncheon. She gave me some pointers for moving forward with the project and recommended using the Colorado Digitization Project’s standards.
This next week I will be working on the project plan keeping all of this in mind.
