It’s not you ...It’s Mimi

Anne Hepburn // Jason WilliamsPacific Northwest College of Art

Portland, Oregon, USA

Building an institutional repository specificallyfor an arts community

Mimi is ...... A multimedia archive for a college and a

museum

... Foundation for rich student portfolios

... A collaboration between the Library and IT

PNCA• 600+ Full-time enrollment (BFA + MFA)

AICAD member• 100-year history — formerly Museum Art School

44,000 original student works

Museum of Contemporary Craft• Founded 1937

• Entered Partnership with PNCA in 2009• Very active in Mimi

Communications + Public

Programs• PNCA and MoCC

• Mimi holds multimedia from:

_ Public Events_ Exhibitions

_ Lectures and Panels

Continuing Education• Roughly 1500 students all ages annually

• Mimi holds an archival collection of Children’s Art

Build Our Own? Really?

Internal CollaborationFrom acquiring Grant Funding

To designing metadata schemes that fit varied formats

+External Collaboration

Talking with other institutions about their experiences

Other OptionsLUNA InsightContentDM

DSpaceExtensis Portfolio

Fedora

Running StartBuilt our own Calendar and LMS

HTML5 • CSS3 • Ruby on Rails • Multimedia Processing

Mimi Features• Customized metadata

• Dublin Core & VRA Core

• Full-text search

• Any file type (images, video, audio, PDF)• Beautiful, engaging and fun

Volunteer Supported

• PNCA Volunteers are MLS students from Emporia State University, Portland cohort

• Museum has separate volunteers cataloging their archival holdings and new exhibits

Future• 100,000 - 150,000 items within 2 years

• Backbone of next generation student portfolios

• Full integration with all PNCA + MoCC websites

• Integration with other schools? Libraries? Museums?

• Open to the public 2012