View descriptions and membership of each of the CHIT Committees and Working Groups.
CHIT Committees and Working Groups
Purpose:
This group, composed of Museum/Library directors, IT leads, collections managers, and ITS leads, is responsible for all strategic planning and high level decision making.
Chair: Susan Gibbons, Vice-Provost for Scholarly Collections and Communications
Members:
- Courtney Martin, Director
- Frank Mathew, Director
- Barbara Rockenbach, Director
- David Skelly, Director
- Stephanie Wiles, Director
- Jeff Campbell
- Renato Cayuela
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Larry Gall
- Alison Gilchrest
- Dale Hendrickson
- Michell Light
- Thomas Raich
- Nelson Rios
- Rob Sanderson
- Elizabeth Williams
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
This group is the functional steering group for the LUX project, and the group includes IT and collection leads from Library, Museums and ITS
Co-Chairs: Dale Hendrickson and Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
Members:
- Jeff Campbell
- Renato Cayuela
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Melissa Fournier
- Larry Gall
- Heather Gendron
- Dale Hendrickson
- Lindsay King
- Peter Leonard
- Thomas Raich
- Nelson Rios
- Rob Sanderson
- Freyda Spira
- Kalee Sprague
- Patrick Sweeney
- Tim Thompson
- Yer Vang-Cohen
- Heather White
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
Technical support and guidance for CHIT projects – including CDS2 and LUX – ensures alignment between LUX and local unit (especially YUL) projects, and planning for future shared service solutions
Co-Chairs: Michael Appleby and Jeff Campbell
Members:
- Renato Cayuela
- Mark Custer
- Melissa Fournier
- Larry Gall
- Xinjian Guo
- Dale Hendrickson
- Eric James
- Seong-June Kim
- Kameryn Larkins
- Thomas Raich
- Nelson Rios
- Rob Sanderson
- Tim Speevack
- Tim Thompson
- Yer Vang-Cohen
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
Reporting to CCD, this sub-group includes collections data and cataloging experts from across campus with a focus on harmonization, reconcilation, and alignment of metadata for shared services, such as LUX and CDS2.
Co-Chairs: Larry Gall and Rob Sanderson
Members:
- Jeff Campbell
- Alison Clemens
- Mark Custer
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Alicia Detelich
- Melissa Fournier
- Eric James
- Seong-June Kim
- Francis Lapka
- Peter Leonard
- Youn Noh
- Tim Thompson
- Patricia Thurston
- Yer Vang-Cohen
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
Reporting to CCD, this group is focused on how LUX leverages the data model and graph technology for effective search and discovery functionality in LUX
Co-Chairs: George Miles and Heather White
Members:
- Anna Arays
- Alison Clemens
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Eric James
- Seong-June Kim
- Patricia Kane
- Thomas Raich
- Rob Sanderson
- Kalee Sprague
- Patrick Sweeney
- Tim Thompson
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
Reporting to CCD, these teams are focused on LUX UI wireframes, design, content
Co-Chairs: Heather White and Yer Vang-Cohen
Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Teams:
- LUX Design Team: Heather White, Monica Ong Reed, Andy Melien
- Design Review Team: Heather White, Monica Ong Reed, Andy Melien, Kameryn Larkins, Edward Town, Yer Vang-Cohen
- Assessments: Heather White, Jenn Nolte
- BARC - UI/UX work: Heather White, Monica Ong Reed, Yer Vang-Cohen
- LUX Content Team: Heather White, Melissa Fournier, Patrick Sweeney, Rosemary Volpe, Freyda Spira, Anna Arays
Purpose:
This group is identifying issues and solutions that address bias and systemic racism in how Yale describes and presents its cultural heritage collections. To learn more, please see: Bias in Collections (BARC).
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Williams and Robert Sanderson
Current Members:
- Anna Arays
- Alison Clemens
- Benjamin Diebold
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Erin Gredell
- Rob Sanderson
- David Thompson
- Tim Thompson
- Jessica Utrup
- Yer Vang-Cohen
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
This group was convened to have collaborative and nuanced discussions about how rights information is captured and presented in LUX, CDS2 and local catalog systems.
Chair: Melissa Fournier
Members:
- Alison Clemens
- Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
- Sandra Enimil
- John ffrench
- Larry Gall
- Erin Gredell
- Rob Sanderson
- Yer Vang-Cohen
- Arabella Yip
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager
Purpose:
The ITS Team is responsible for building and supporting CHIT projects.
Service Owner: Jeff Campbell, Associate Director of Digital Asset Technologies
Members:
- Jeff Campbell, Service Owner
- Seong-June Kim, Technical Lead
- Kameryn Larkins, Front-end Developer
- Xinjian Guo, System Administrator
- Renato Cayuela, Director of Community Applications
- Sarah Prown, Project Manager