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
- 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)
1.1.1 AI historic working papers
1.1.2 David Taylor Model Basin Technical Reports
1.1.3 NUREG Technical Reports
1.2 MIT Theses
1.3 Technical reports (medium priority)
1.3.1 Special monographs from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)
1.4 Technical reports (lower priority)
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
- McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars
- Web-only/born digital publications on planning
- AMS series maps
- Boston map collection
- Pamphlet collection
- Visual Arts Program (VAP) - Current Projects
- Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) archives
- Maurice Smith digital image collection
Themes:
- Boston Theme projects
- Energy Theme projects