Meeting Minutes for 04/16/2024

Agenda: 

• New Business & Updates
  • News from the Good Marmot Folk
  • Boulder migration is underway

• Dark Matter
  • Islandora Upgrade and Migration News
    • Still getting quotes from two vendors for upgrade
      • Proposal from Born Digital in hand
      • Discovery Garden is still working on a quote
      • Expected to have something finalized in the next few weeks
  • Accessibility News
    • Accessibility standards and image alt text
    • Transcripts for various object types
      • Book, PDF, Postcards, objects with handwritten text
      • Everything? 
      • Please put in service request for individual libraries for running reports for objects w/o transcriptions
  • Generation of captions and transcripts--a demonstration, compliments of Chris.
    • Chris will provide a recorded demo of the software later on due to technical difficulties with the demo today
• MUG 2024
  • Marmot needs volunteers from the various committees to be on the MUG planning committee. The more the merrier!
  • The committee helps decide which sessions are chosen for MUG using a rubric
  • Typically, one meeting a month – sometimes two meetings a month closer to the event date
• Reports & Open Discussion 
  • Contemporary Photography: Vail Public Library 
  • Historical Society Newsletters: Mesa County Public Library