March 3 meeting JP of history is working with about 10 local musuems to create a searchable archive which aggregates holdings of Chinese-Canadian records from all of those museums Final product is fairly straightforward database similar to what Nikkei National provides for Japanese materials. Starting with Nanaimo and Cumberland Deadline is 31 Dec 2015 Wants a unified web-based environment (i.e. not simply scraping from whatever each place is providing). The main part of the task is settling on one common storage format and then migrating existing records into that format. Project has $10,000 and some commitment(?) of labour from the participating museums. Likely solution is AtoM as it's web-based and intended for this kind of aggregation and presentation to public task. Possible issues: - ongoing cost of Virtual Machine and AtoM licence - ongoing workflow as museums add to their records (i.e. is AtoM in addition to, or in place of, their existing DB considering their existing DB may have more than just Chinese material in it.) - porting of data probably won't be hard, but there might be some issues reconciling fields from various sources into one data model Martin has been investigating the use of AtoM for the Landscapes of Injustice project, so should be consulted on this before any decision is made.