Advisory Board Meeting

Outcomes:

Information on meeting outcomes are documented in the meeting minutes, available to view or download.

Day/Time:

9:00 – 3:00, March 27, 2017

Venue:

Illini Room, Illini Center (200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL)

Participants:

Attending from Advisory Board:

In-Person:
- Tom Teper, Co-Chair (UIUC)
- Jerry McDonough, Co-Chair (UIUC)
- Antoine Isaac (Europeana)
- Francoise Leriche (Univ. of Grenoble)
- Cecily Marcus (Univ. of Minnesota)
- Jeff Mixter (OCLC)
- Chew Chiat Naun (Cornell Univ.)
- Kevin Page (Oxford e-Research Centre)
- Doug Reside (NY Public Library)
- Robert Sanderson (Getty)

Remotely:
- Mark Matienzo (Stanford Univ.)
- Derek Miller (Harvard Univ.)

Attending from Project Team:

PIs:
- Tim Cole
- Myung-Ja Han
- Caroline Szylowicz

Staff:
- Ryan Dubnicek, Project Coordinator
- Deren Kudeki, Research Programmer
- Jacob Jett, PhD Research Asst.
- Joo Ho Lee, PhD Research Asst.
- Melina Zavala, Master’s Research Asst.

Agenda:

8:15 – Morning refreshments

**9:00 – Welcome and introductions (Slides)**

9:15 – Board feedback on work to date (will include a break midway):

Demo of how LOD has been integrated into our Motley collection search and browse resource (CONTENTdm)
Mapping Motley and Portraits of Actors Collection metadata to schema.org (Slides)
Strategies used to identify and add links to existing descriptions
Marking up Proust social & literary network of names and mapping Kolb’s notes to schema.org (Slides)
Summary and preliminary observations from baseline Google analytics data and round of user testing, and plans for Motley testing on new interface this spring (Slides)

12:00 – Lunch & discussion: other projects we should be familiar/in touch with

1:00 – Work in progress

Ideas for axes of interest for visualizing and annotating the social network of Marcel Proust
Ideas for replacing and migrating from CONTENTdm

2:15 – Wrap-up, action items & takeaways

3:00 – Adjourn

Supplemental materials (in .pdf):