Digital Medieval Manuscript Initiatives

The meeting will take place, both days, in Meyer Library, Room 182.

Day 1:
9:00 - Meeting begins with coffee and introductions
10:30 - Coffee break
10:45 - Meeting resumes
12:00 - Lunch break
1:00 - Meeting resumes
2:45 - break
5:00 - Meeting adjourns
6:30 - Group dinner at Calafia Cafe, Palo Alto

Day 2:

9:00 - Meeting begins
10:30 - Coffee break
10:45 - Meeting resumes
12:00 - Lunch break
1:00 Meeting resumes
2:45 - break
5:00 - Meeting adjourns
Evening: ad hoc drinks and dinner

Because this meeting is intended to be a working session with specific outcomes (refinement and implementation of the current draft of the Medieval Manuscript Manifest; finalizing first pass at required web services; agreement on way forward with community viewer), the following is a guideline for the agenda that may change as the sessions progress.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - SharedCanvas / Manifest Day

9:00 Introductions, opening comments and agenda setting
9:30 State of the model - Rob Sanderson
10:00 From manifest to viewer - Lee Reilly and Christopher Jesudurai
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Discussion of manifest-creation work at Hopkins and e-Codices (Mark Patton and Rafael Schwemmer)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Working sessions
building and refining manifests from existing configuration files
tools using manifests (viewers, discovery, Digital Mappaemundi, Margot Annotation Tool)
2:45 Coffee Break
3:00 Continuing working sessions
4:00 Wrap-up: outcome - (shared scripts, documentation, implementation-specific requirements that the model doesn't address)
6:30 Group Dinner at the Calafia Cafe in Palo Alto

Friday, March 18, 2011 - Web services and viewers

9:00 Framing: Review web services requirements and conversations to date
9:30 Stanford's current image services (Douglas Kim)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Working sessions:
Bibliographic and Image Technical metadata requirements/services
Descriptive metadata services
12:00 Lunch
1:00 (continued working sessions and documentation of results)
2:45 Coffee Break
3:00 Image viewer work for the community - where are we, what's next?
4:30 Conclusions, next-steps, timeline alignment
Evening Group Drinks and Dinner (ad hoc)

List of Attendees with Affiliation:

• Albritton, Benjamin (Stanford University)
• Bonicel, Matthieu (Bibl. nat. de France)
• Bradshaw, Shannon (Drew University)
• Chartrand, James (Independent)
• Cramer, Tom (Stanford University)
• Davis, Ian (University of Waterloo)
• Jefferies, Neil (Oxford University)
• Jesudurai, Christopher (Stanford University)
• Kim, Douglas (Stanford University)
• Martin, Sean (British Library)
• McRae, Lynn (Stanford University)
• Patton, Mark (Johns Hopkins University)
• Reilly, Lee (Stanford University)
• Sanderson, Rob (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Schwemmer, Rafael (University of Fribourg
• Snydman, Stu (Stanford University)
• Taylor, Jamie (Google)

Meeting Location: All sessions will be held in Meyer Library, Room 182 on the Stanford Campus.

Housing: All visitors will be staying at the Stanford Guest House.

Transportation: the Marguerite shuttle runs a regular free service between the Guest House and campus, schedule information also available at the Guest House.

Food: Coffee services and lunch will be provided both days. A group dinner is planned for Thursday night, and an ad hoc dinner for Friday night for those wishing to attend.