Project Committees
Budget Committee
Kate Lane, Jeanne Sanviti-Masher
This committee tracked labor costs through the entire process, and presented data on what the digital library would have cost had it not been a student project.
Content & Context Committee
Lauren Rodriguez, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Lerner, Pamela Fairlie, Sarah Kasten
The Content and Context Committee provided the background about Simmons, Boston, and the times to help the scrapbook users understand the context. They also created lesson plans for teachers to make the most of scrapbook content.
Database Committee
Andrew Clark, Bharti Joshi, Jasurbek Yahshiyev
This team was responsible for working with the software that underpinned the scrapbook interface and interaction.
Descriptive Metadata Committee
Lauren Miller, Bart Admonius, Marie-Helene Bugnion, Rebecca Wingfield
The Descriptive Metadata Committee decided how the objects in the scrapbook would be described, what information would be captured about each object, and what kinds of subject headings they would have. They also entered much of the data.
Digitization Committee
Elizabeth Brown, Joshua Parker, Wendy Brown
The Digitization Committee created the page scanning instructions to use in digitizing the pages and also instructions on how to "slice and dice" the page scans to create images for each object.
Environmental Scan Committee
Bart Admonius, Elizabeth Lerner, Rebecca Wingfield
The Environmental Scan Committee gathered a collection of other scrapbook Web sites, surveyed the class to gather opinions as to what worked and what didn't, and presented a report so that we could learn for our own scrapbook.
Evaluation and Usability Committee
Laura O'Brien, Paul Baker, Pamela Fairlie
This committee developed a testing instrument and tested a prototype of the library with real users (including one in class), so that revisions could be made to any components of the site that did not seem clear to users.
Intellectual Property Committee
Melissa Gonzales, Sarah Kasten, Kate Lane
The Intellectual Property Committee did research on all of the copyright issues that pertained to all of the items (including photographs, commercial theater programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence), and prepared a terms of use statement for the site.
Marketing Committee
Laura O'Brien, Melissa Gonzales, Jeanne Sanviti-Masher
The Marketing Committee developed mission statements, library name, colors, and logo; worked with the Web team on branding, and orchestrated the unveiling.
Preservation Committee
Claire Lobdell, Bevin Maloney, Marie-Helene Bugnion
The Preservation Committee set the standards for archival preservation of images, and developed forms to capture necessary preservation information.
Professor
Candy Schwarz
Candy likes to say that she wound the students up at the beginning of the semester and then they all went off and created a digital library, with a little bit of feather-ruffling and panic on the side for her to deal with. She also took up any spare time with lectures on theories and principles of digital library creation and maintenance.
Project Manager
Jeffrey Gallant
The Project Manager showed the class how Project Management tools can be used to chart progress and indentify critical paths. He took minutes at each meeting, helped set the agenda, and tried to keep us on tracks
Photo-Chronicler
Wendy Brown
The Photo-Chronicler took pictures of digital library creation in action and posted them on flickr for posterity.
Quality Control Committee
Paul Baker, Lauren Rodriguez
This committee's work was all done at the last minute, checking that everything worked as intended and that content was clear and accurate.
Selection
Bevin Maloney
Bevin assigned each student a number of scrapbook pages, trying to ensure that everyone got a little bit of varied content (correspondence, photographs, clippings, etc.).
Web Design Committee
Jen Langley, Joyce Myeza, Aiden Graham
This committee created the site architecture, developed the look and feel for all pages, and coded the structure into which content would be deployed.
Wiki Gardener
Claire Lobdell
The Wiki Gardener made sure that the project wiki (which was many pages big) was consistent, and that everything was easy to find and clearly presented. .