DC Project Priorities (aka non-developer dependent work)
| Project | Priority | Timeline | Links | Status | Status / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discuss and explore managing hybrid collections (digitized and born digital items in a single collection) in DDR. | High | CY18 Q1 - Q3 | Complete | Discussions fueled the creation of these user stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12BpzYKTlscvODT3glXQsogxS4cQv3Tr6OgyXnPM823A/edit?usp=sharing | |
| Section A, Boxes 4-25 | Medium | Ongoing | Section A | In Progress | Boxes 20-25 to be launched Q1 2019 See notes from ingest/metadata/launch process meeting: https://3.basecamp.com/3615344/buckets/2109882/documents/852877626 |
| Migrate Behind the Veil | Medium | TBD | In progress | Collection is remediated and awaiting a meeting to discuss ingest. | |
| Re-Imagining Collection | High | CY18 Q1 | Complete | ||
| Make Documentation more Accessible | Medium | ?? | Not Started (from DCIT perspective) | Started this page (though it links to some olde docs that need updates) as a first step: 1. Workflow and General Documentation [click for more links] Digital Collections documentation is buried - lets make it easier to find. Project documentation - Work on in November. | |
| Incorporate enhanced chapel recordings metadata into DDR | High | CY18 Q1, 2 and 3 | Complete for first batch | Provide access to a batch of enhanced metadata by mid-late July 2018 for Homiletics conference. See: https://3.basecamp.com/3615344/buckets/2109790/documents/956373595 | |
| Migrate T2 Content - remaining still image | Medium | Ongoing | In Progress | See quarterly schedule - we made great progress in 2018! | |
| Migrate T2 content - remaining A/V | Medium | Ongoing | In Progress | This was difficult in 2018, but I feel optimistic about 2019 | |
| Memory Project in DDR | High | CY18 Q3 & 4 | Not Started | Work on this project was postponed to Q1 and Q2 of 2019 per planning efforts in late 2018.
See: Memory Project | |
| Ingest / apply basic metadata for A/V and Nitrate Preservation Projects | Medium | CY18 Q2 | In Progress | We did some of this work in 2018, but more needed in 2019. Review backlog and identify roles | |
| Finish Radio Haiti? | Medium | CY18Q2 | In Progress | 2 (or more) batches of Radio Haiti ingested in 2018, as well as work on the grant to make the files more accessible via YouTube and IA. Final batches to be ingested in Q2 2019. Ingest scheduled for October 2018, May 2019 and June 2019 if need be. | |
| Chronicle 1990s | High | Complete | All the 90s are in Tripod2 | ||
| Emma Goldman | High | CY18 Q1 | Complete | First diversity and inclusion project - associated with Baskin exhibit. | |
| Apply Rights statements to legacy DCs | Medium | Ongoing | Tracking page | In Progress | Didn't make a lot of progress on this - prioritize in 2019. Dave Hansen in discussions w/ RL Curators Field experience student involved too |
| Usability testing on A/V related features (esp. captions and transcripts) | Medium | CY18 Q3 or 4 | Will not start | This is being de-prioritized given AUX assessment project. | |
| Make Captions and Interactive Transcripts Accessible | High | CY18 Q1 and 2 | Complete | Several projects have captions / transcripts in the works - lets get these out into the world.
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| Collection level metadata | Medium | CY18 Q3 and Q4 | In Progress? | Maggie led a focus group of DC stakeholders in a discussion about needs for collection level browsing. Some of these require some development time, which is not allocated to DC as of early 2019. ACDC would like to see us do some user testing on browse features. | |
| MSI Data Model | Medium | CY18 Q1-2 | Stalled | Need to make progress on this in 2019 Testing and R/D Development in Jan 2018 Resume work after April software update, which may impact the data model. | |
| Create requirements to enhance the display technical metadata in DDR (both from FITS, DPC and possibly other) | Medium | ? | Paused | Expositing FITS metadata has been submitted as a user story in Jira and is in the backlog: DDR-1506 - Getting issue details... STATUS DCIT discussed this on March 20, 2018. Maggie Dickson (old account) (Unlicensed), Farrell (old account) (Unlicensed) and Mike Adamo (Deactivated) to discuss further and work with DPWG and MAG as needed. Hopefully we can task this and move forward. Maggie has notes - from MAG or small meetings. | |
| Finish ROAD | High | CY18 Q3 and 4 | Paused | Make progress in 2019 Complete editing ROAD derivatives, ingest and launch. | |
| Roles and Groups | Medium | ? | In Progress | Group met in 2018 to review all the DDR groups. The requested modifications still need to be submitted. Will do in Q1 2019. Need to know:
Consult with upcoming DDR governance groups to be formed in Q2 (hopefully). How about we work on this and provide recommendations/best practices to ACDC and DP3 if applicable? | |
Project Priorities for CY 18 and beyond
- Manage smaller level projects as they appear
- Migrate all the orphan projects
- Migrate all the patron requests
- Will require lots of RL collaboration
- All outstanding proposals
DDR Development and DevOps Priorities (should they become available)
| No. | Feature | Priority | Desired Time Range | Links | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDR models changes for Duke Chapel Enhanced metadata | High | CY18 Q2 | Placeholder page: Chapel Recordings Enhanced Metadata | Complete | Planning to start in Q1. Move to TOP! | |
| Batch Ingest support for projects like Section A | High | CY18 Q1 | Complete | We defined requirements in 2018, and then opted not to request the development as other development needs have a higher impact. See: DDR-1444 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||
| Functional requirements around Hybrid collecitons | CY18 Q1-3 | Complete | Requirements have been defined Define necessary requirements for DDR backlog Timeline is for discussions, not implementation. | |||
| Searching and retrieving collections in DDR Admin interface for both general and RL Reading room use | Medium | CY18 Q2-3 | In Progress? Complete? | I think we did everything but make the result set downloadable, and that feature is on hold? DCIT on 3.20.18 identified 3 needs:
Molly to set up meeting with David C-S, Jim C, Maggie Dickson (old account) (Unlicensed), Noah Huffman (Deactivated) and Farrell (old account) (Unlicensed) in Q2 to discuss. | ||
| Plan sustainable future for Fugitive Sheets digital collection (and any other remaining "special interface" collections in T2). | Medium | CY18 Q3 or 4 | Non-DDR Digital Collections Platforms | Not Started | Discussions and planning, not implementation | |
| Plan for Full Text Search and CDM replacement | Medium | CY18 Q3 or Q4 | Non-DDR Digital Collections Platforms | Not Started | Discussions and planning, not implementation | |
| Implement Disqus commenting platform | Medium | CY18 Q1 & 2 | Complete | ACDC opted not to incorporate Disqus. MB to discuss w/ other institutions and ACDC. Implementation planning to follow. | ||
| File Tracker | Medium | Ongoing | Complete? | Collaboration with DPC, DCIT, RL, Core Services Reports are being generated. DPC in touch with Core services about modifications. | ||
| Manage Large DDR Ingests | High | Ongoing | Not Started | This is moved to 2019 AdViews will be a good test for large ingests. Unclear if this work will result in functional requirements. | ||
| Make timecodes in description fields copyable links | Medium | ? | Not started | See comments on: DDR-1327 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||
| Alert users that audio captions are available in embed views | High | ? | Not Started | Discussed at DCIT 3.20.207. Re-consider ideas when Dev time allows. | ||
| WebVTT chapters | Medium | CY18 Q3 | Not started | Discuss what needs these will address and if/when/how to implement |
Development needs on deck for CY18 and beyond
- Support full text collections:
- OCR
- term-highlighting
- Mets Alto for newspapers
- Export text easily
- Import corrected text easily
- support distance reading and text mining related work (may just rely on exporting text data sets).
- Turn off CONTENTdm
- Would love to see the day where everything we digitize is linked through the catalog and finding aids.
- Lots of technology and workflow implications.
- Aligns w/ MAG
- People should be able to understand what they find in the catalog AND of course be able to find digital collections. Thinking through what is digitized, digital, and electronic versions.
- Implement Altmetrics
- Re-Curate collections following ingest
- Change the data model of a collection
- Requires suffia?
- Long Distant future....
- Enable Crowdsourcing (this requires policy / workflow planning as well as development work)
- Allow crowds to identify people
- submit corrections to metadata
- create and correct transcriptions → https://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
- Enable Crowdsourcing (this requires policy / workflow planning as well as development work)