Dork Shorts notes
Quick notes on what people shared at the Dork Shorts session:
Omeka-run online museum for the MSU campus archaeology program
Goal: online exhibit to lok at twhat the program has done, locations, objects found, and they relationship with the MSU
Mita Williams
How we deal with individual silos in collections: digital collections, books, etc.
Discovery layers in the library
– relevancy is difficult
– choosing the right result
– how to bring local content up
leddy by design: infoservices.uwindsor.ca/leddywebdev/
jamun – showcase.uwindsor.ca:8888/jamun/
Amanda Sikarskie and Justine Richarson Quilt Index
quiltindex.org
Any institution that has quilt collection can add the info on their wiki
GradHacker: Katy Meyers, Alex Galarza, Micalee Sullivan
gradhacker.org
Planning to introduce this to various conferences. Looking for content.
Megan McCullen – Alma College
Alma is planning on conference on human rights.
Invite sessions on human rights in relation to the moral & ethics session.
Harriett Green
Project Bamboo – www.projectbamboo.org/
Collab w/ institutions; looking for researches on digital collections.
Amanda Französisch
Thatcamp – thatcamp.org
Use WordPress MultiSite; your THATCamp site can be hosted there.
Rebecca Bizonet
MakerFaire 2nd in Detroit Henry Ford
July 30-31st
Dejah Rubel & Randal Baier
Gordy Motown Collections
merlyn.emich.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=19