Beginning in March of 2016, the teams from both Common Media (CM) and the three colleges (3C) were hard at work finalizing our Phase I work. We are very happy to report that the result of that work is a Project Plan for Phase II. The Library Directors approved it and gave us the green light to proceed with our collaboration. We have updated our About page with an overview and scope of Phase II!

We are very grateful to partners CM for their expert project management and for applying their deep technical experience with the Islandora platform to the Phase I process. Additionally, the entire team on the 3C side put in a huge amount of work to facilitate the (quite deep) scan of our current digital repositories, metadata, and DAM environments.

So what’s next? 3C Team Lead members held a kick-off meeting with CM last week to review the Phase II timeline and project plan for any necessary re-calibrations, and discussed one of the first major project segments ahead of us — metadata! There are two areas where metadata management are particularly important: for the successful migrations or rebuilding of our collections/assets within the Islandora repository, and to support the capability for our users to search across all three of the schools’ collections from a single front-end. A 3C/CM Metadata Team will be formed to support and facilitate this work, comprised of staff from all of the schools led by Liza Coburn, Metadata Consultant for CM. A scope and responsibilities charge will be created for the Metadata Team, and their work will begin ASAP.

There are other operations in the works: some continuing project management administrative follow-up to get the wheels going (setting up shared documentation spaces, setting up tools for communication and task tracking), as well as a closer look at the elements of the first major project milestone and breaking out how that work will happen over the next weeks and months.

We hope to update this site as much as possible over the course of Phase II, and we’re happy to answer any questions you may have about the project! Please use the Contact Form at the bottom of this page to get in touch.