Anne Hepburn and Jason Williams presentation for the "Case Studies 1" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

2. Building an institutional repository specifically for an arts community

4. Mimi is ... ... A multimedia archive for a college and a museum ... Foundation for rich student portfolios ... A collaboration between the Library and IT

6. PNCA • 600+ Full-time enrollment (BFA + MFA) AICAD member • 100-year history — formerly Museum Art School

7. 44,000 original student works

10. Museum of Contemporary Craft • Founded 1937 • Entered Partnership with PNCA in 2009 • Very active in Mimi

11. Communications + Public Programs • PNCA and MoCC • Mimi holds multimedia from: _ Public Events _ Exhibitions _ Lectures and Panels

12. Continuing Education • Roughly 1500 students all ages annually • Mimi holds an archival collection of Children’s Art

13. Build Our Own? Really? Internal Collaboration From acquiring Grant Funding To designing metadata schemes that fit varied formats + External Collaboration Talking with other institutions about their experiences

14. Other Options LUNA Insight ContentDM DSpace Extensis Portfolio Fedora

15. Running Start Built our own Calendar and LMS HTML5 • CSS3 • Ruby on Rails • Multimedia Processing

16. Mimi Features • Customized metadata • Dublin Core & VRA Core • Full-text search • Any file type (images, video, audio, PDF) • Beautiful, engaging and fun

22. Volunteer Supported • PNCA Volunteers are MLS students from Emporia State University, Portland cohort • Museum has separate volunteers cataloging their archival holdings and new exhibits

23. 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