The following was the agenda for Meeting Four – September 17th - 18th, 2010.
September 17th
8:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
9:00 - 9:30 am: Welcome (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Representatives from Wheaton will welcome everyone to the college and introduce the new participants to the rest of the group. We will then go over the day's agenda. We will also elect note takers for each conversation area.
9:30 - 10:30 am: Describing the Service (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Julia Flanders will present on her work so far in drafting a specification for the service, focusing on questions and issues arising from the draft (circulated in advance).
10:30 - 10:45 am: Break (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
10:45 - 12:00 pm: Describing the Service (cont.) (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Julia Flanders continues her discussion
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
1:00 - 1:45: Schemas and Stylesheets (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Syd Bauman will give an update on his work on schemas and stylesheets, including presentation of an early draft stylesheet to generate basic HTML for display.
1:45 - 2:30 pm: The Repository (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Andy Ashton will give an update on the repository and discuss some proposed ideas for a basic self-service interface, as well as a brief overview of a planned API for developers.
2:30 - 2:45 pm: Break (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
2:45 - 3:30 pm: TAPAS Screenshots (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Patrick Rashleigh will show the group some initial screenshots of what the service could look like and solicit feedback from the group about these shots and establish a process going forward.
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Services Related to the Repository: (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Rafael Alvarado will present an overview of third-party application development with examples, the development of a website for the project, and some of UVA’s current projects with TEI with the potential for connecting with TAPAS.
4:00 - 4:15 pm: Wrap-up. (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) We will briefly review the day’s decisions and discussions and decide if the second day’s agenda meets the needs of this meeting.
4:15 - 4:45 pm: Optional tour of the Campus led by Zeph Stickney
6:00 pm: Dinner at the Colonel Blackinton Inn
September 18
8:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
9:00 - 9:15: Welcome. (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) We will review the day’s agenda and make adjustments. Participants will be reminded that we should also consider the possibility of a fifth meeting and asked to think about what could be a part of that meeting.
9:15 - 10:00 am: IMLS Summary and other Deliverables. (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) We will use this time to create an action plan for producing a summary for IMLS, finishing the specification, and completing additional deliverables like screenshots, schemas, stylesheets, and aspects of the repository. Are there any other documents we should be preparing (e.g. a condensed document or a brochure). (discussion led by Scott Hamlin)
10:00 - 10:30 am: Grant Proposal Planning. (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) What are the sequence of grants we should be applying for (NEH, IMLS)? How can institutions help? (discussion led by Mara Degnan-Rojeski and Shaoping Moss)
10:30 - 10:45 am: Break (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall)
10:45 - 11:30 am: Technical Planning (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) We will consider whether we should think about usability testing at this point or plan for it at all. We will define expectations for how the development of schemas and stylesheets with Brown will work over the coming year. And we will define how we intend to use the web hosting over the coming year. (discussion led Rafael Alvarado).
11:30 - 12:00 pm: Wrap-up. (Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall) Should we have a fifth meeting? What would be the agenda? How do we keep people engaged going forward? We will perform our usual plus/delta exercise during this time.
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch (May Room, Mary Lyon Hall) You may take this with you if you need to depart.