diglib: RE: Proposal for a DCC working group

["Mark Watson" <mrwatson@uoregon.edu>]

Lesli & DCC:

Interesting ... actually you've written down a good description of the
direction in which I'd like to see DCC move as a committee.  In discussions
with Faye, leading up to her acceptance of the position at OSU, she made an
excellent point that DCC should not be in the business of digital content
selection as that role properly belongs to the subject specialists but
rather in the business of digital infrastructure.  I think she's right and
would like to see us re-focus DCC more on the technology and procedures for
digitization and building digital collections.

So, in the absence of a meeting this month, let me through this out for
online discussion.  How about renaming DCC to DIG:  Digital Infrastructure
Group.  We will abandon the idea that DCC will review and recommendation new
digital content but rather make sure there is a working forum for all
practitioners.   We'd need to decide whether the topics you are writing
about will be the "bread and butter" of DIG or if they are truly so "nuts
and bolts" that they require a sub-group.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Lesli Larson [mailto:lalarson@uoregon.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:16 PM
To: mrwatson@uoregon.edu
Subject: Proposal for a DCC working group




Mark--

Kate Ball and I have been talking with Mary about putting together a digital
content creators-type working group, perhaps as a subgroup of DCC.  We'd
like to form an inter-departmental working group through which we could
share info on scanning practices, content DM issues, file naming
conventions, digital file management, equipment calibrations, etc, and also
review ongoing and future digital projects.  Group could also host
presentations or training sessions by outside experts and put forward
suggestions for future, broadscale, even grant funded digital projects.  I
see this group as having a more nuts and bolts focus--while still relying on
DCC for advice/direction on more broad based policy issues such as file
naming conventions, digital preservation, etc.

We thought that the group could meet on a monthly basis--perhaps during the
same time slot as DCC (but on an alternative date).

Let me know what you think.

Regards,

LL


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Lesli Larson
Image Services Coordinator
Metadata Services and Digital Projects Department
Knight Library
University of Oregon
541-346-1946
lalarson@uoregon.edu