Here’s a brief summary of activities to bring us up to today:

• Beginning September 2015, The 3C Project Team Leads (Abigail, Bob, Elisa, and Sarah) were charged by our respective Library Directors to begin a planning and discovery process that will lead to an eventual collaborative implementation of the Islandora digital repository system. This system will provide the infrastructure for a 3C shared digital library program. Our timeline for this planning process is roughly October 2015 to April 2016, and is being referred to as “Phase 1.”
• “Phase 1” will result in a comprehensive planning document that will be used to move 3C into two further phases of implementation of Islandora and shape a lot of the details–things like where the system will be installed/hosted, what particular features it will have, how it will be supported between the schools, and what the beginning of a shared digital library initiative might really look like in real life.
• 3C has contracted with Common Media to help us in the process of gathering requirements and needs across the three campuses in order to successfully plan the technical implementation of the system.
• Concurrently, the 3C group is working on internal administrative items, namely a governance roadmap, that will inform how the repository will be managed and developed collaboratively.
• Additional work is underway to collect information about our respective metadata schema and management; we are also gathering specific stakeholder and user feedback to inform a larger picture for system functionality. Deeper technical surveys/requirements will be undertaken in December and into January.
• The 3C Project Team meets f2f every other week to work through our Phase 1 backlog and tasks. The wider group of 3C staff involved in the project holds a virtual stand-up meeting every Monday with a Common Media Project Manager to ensure optimum communication between contractor/client, and monthly meetings between the 3C Project Team Leads and Common Media staff are also on the books.
• Virtual contact among the project participants is powered by Slack, Google Docs/Drive, and Teamwork.

We plan to make use of this blog to provide general updates on our progress and provide additional information about the project as it develops. Please feel free to contact us by using the form at the bottom of the page!