Project Ideas

The project idea chart used for July 22, 2008 DSG meeting:

In preparation for our July 22 meeting, each library should pick two ideas to develop as upcoming projects.  One or both should be OCA-friendly projects.  These could be ideas from the existing lists on the DSG wiki or new ideas.  Enter your project ideas and designate the sponsor in the chart below.

 Archives

1. Annual Reports of the MIT President
2. Course catalogs
3. Faculty minutes
4. Corporation minutes
5. Theses
6. MIT Publications
7. Faculty research notebooks (Edgerton, Forrester, Rossi, etc.)
8. Hale audio tapes
9. O'Sullivan photographs
10. Gaffield glassmaking collection: papers and selected rare books
11. Oral history audio tapes
12. Events videos (commencement, etc.)
13. CAVS
14. MIT 150th Oral Histories
15. Laptop and hard drive

Dewey

1. Born-digital items
2. Sloan Working Papers (HD28.M414)

ESL

Digitization

1.1 Technical reports (high priority)

    1.1.1 AI historic working papers
    1.1.2 David Taylor Model Basin Technical Reports
    1.1.3 NUREG Technical Reports 

1.2 MIT Theses

1.3 Technical reports (medium priority)

    1.3.1 Special monographs from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)

1.4 Technical reports (lower priority)

    1.4.1 Water Resources reports
    1.4.2 Solar Energy Technical Reports at LSA (Anderson collection) 

Microcards (micro-opaques)

• Boston Photo Imaging currently has several of these and has found a way to scan them.  Beverly has a meeting the week of August 11th to discuss their suggestions. Jenn Morris suggested these links:
• http://www.merrittgraphics.com/services/scanning/capabilities.php
  http://www.donnegan.com/Document_Imaging___CDs.html
  http://www.crowleymicrographics.com/
  http://www.databankimx.com/document_management.htm
  And here's some places that sell the equipment to scan microcards: http://e-imagedata.com/
  

Preservation/Migration Projects

2.1 Dark Diskettes Archive (medium priority)
2.2. At-risk conference proceedings archive (medium priority)

Humanities

1. Authors@MIT sound tapes
2. Oral histories from the Music Department
3. Hale audio tapes
4. Communications Forum sound and video tapes 

Rotch

1. McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars
2. Web-only/born digital publications on planning
3. AMS series maps
4. Boston map collection
5. Pamphlet collection
6. Visual Arts Program (VAP) - Current Projects
7. Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) archives
8. Maurice Smith digital image collection

Themes:

• Boston Theme projects
• Energy Theme projects