diglib: Fw: BTP/CIC Joint Project

["Mark R. Watson" <mrwatson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

DigLib:

FYI - interesting development.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Carver" <dcarver@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
To: <alexandera@lindahall.org>
Cc: <bonamici@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>; <mrwatson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>;
<nhelmer@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: BTP/CIC Joint Project


Adrian,

A few things:

1. This sounds like a very exciting initiative, and I hope we (UO) will be
able to participate.

2. Did I ever send you the name of our DL person? If not, it is:

Normandy Helmer
Coordinator of Preservation & Digital Services
nhelmer@oregon.uoregon.edu

3. That was a great meeting in Tempe. Thanks for your work in pulling it
together!

dac

>BTP Deans/Directors,
> At ALA Midwinter, Jim Williams, Sherrie Schmidt, Fred Heath and I met with
>Ken Frazier from Wisconsin and Tom Peters, Director of Library Initiatives
>for the CIC. The purpose of the meeting was to explore potential
>opportunities for collaboration between the two consortia on digital
>library and/or scholar's   Interest from both groups was high and the
>discussion  ultimately focused on the possibility of developing an initial
>project involving U.S. government documents related to foreign relations of
>the U.S. (FRUS),   The CIC folks drafted the following statement, which has
>been approved by BTP board chair Jim Williams:
> The goal of the proposed CIC/BTP Interconsortial Digitization Project
>(IDP) expands the hope and promise of the initial FRUS (Foreign Relations
>of the  "to drive down the cost of digitization and scale up production
>It is hoped that the  development of low-cost digitization methods will
>inspire further collaboration among research libraries to enlarge the
>public domain of knowledge accessible "  The 43 research libraries within
>the CIC (The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC),
>http://www.cic.uiuc.edu, and the BTP (Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium),
>http://www.big12plus.org, are being invited to participate in an ongoing
>program to digitize entire runs of important   The work will be completed
>in a  decentralized fashion at locations determined by the participating
>libraries. Some libraries may decide to outsource their portion of the
>production work. The procedures and specifications for the FRUS project
>completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
>(http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/) and the ongoing Colorado
>Digitization Project (http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org) would be
>blended together to form a single set of guidelines to be used by
>Although external funding will be sought for this program, it's initial
>stages and ongoing expenses will rely "
> Please note that this information has been communicated only within the
>BTP and CIC communities at this point; no public announcement has been made
>as yet. Tom Peters advised in a subsequent message that he did not expect
>the CIC "" on this proposal until their next meeting in late March, which
>fits nicely with our schedule for the next BTP deans/directors meeting in
>early April. For that meeting, in fact, the BTP board of directors has
>indicated a strong desire to organize a program addressing
>digitization/scholar's portal initiatives, so this proposal would fold
>neatly into that conversation in Provo. Stay tuned for more information on
>this and other aspects of the upcoming spring meeting.
> Thanks, Adrian
>  *********************************************
> Adrian W. Alexander, Executive Director
> Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium
> http://www.big12plus.org
> Treasurer, BioOne, Inc.
> http://www.bioone.org
> EMAIL: alexandera@lindahall.org
> "One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of
>" -- George W. Bush (Feb. 9, 2001)
> **********************************************
>
Deb Carver
Interim University Librarian
University of Oregon Library
541-346-1892
541-346-3485 (fax)