diglib: October & November DCC Meetings

[Corey A Harper <charper@uoregon.edu>]

Sorry for the length of this message

Upcoming DCC meetings:

October 16th:
So far, I have one agenda item for the October DCC meeting.  Faye, Ed 
and I would like to talk about Terms of Use statements for licensed 
digital content hosted locally, such as Art on File and Saskia.  The 
proposed idea is to list full terms of use in ERM, and include a brief 
statement in CONTENTdm Metadata linking to the full terms.  This will 
include a broader discussion regarding sharing access rights and 
responsibilities to our users via ERM.

November 20th:
As per our discussion on Sept. 18, I had been planning on initiating a 
discussion regarding DCC membership on the diglib list.  However, I now 
believe we need to take a step back and look more closely at the group 
itself before making decisions about increasing the number of full 
members or eliminating the group's current status as a voting body.

I think we need to have a broader discussion about the mission, role and 
charge of this group; we need to address whether our primary role is to 
facilitate digital library development or if we should continue playing 
a more active role in policy development and prioritizing digital 
projects as we did under Carol's charge.

If the latter is the case, we may want to consider having more 
administrative / department head membership and possibly having a Chair 
with a higher profile than myself.

Library Administration sees the need to better identify the roles and 
responsibilities of the DCC and will likely want to contribute to this 
broader discussion.

I think that any decision we may reach must be informed by the Digital 
Library Services discussion groups currently being organized by Library 
Administration, and that we should address the issue of the DCC's role 
after these discussions are complete.  I would like to have this topic 
on the agenda for the November 20th meeting.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

-Corey
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Corey A Harper
Metadata Librarian - CMET Team Leader
Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
541/346.1854
charper@uoregon.edu