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Date: Mon Apr 16 11:21:03 2007
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Re: diglib: RE: Proposal for a DCC working group

All this sounds good to me. But I do want to point out 2 things:

1: I never though DCC was about reviewing and recommending content. I thought it was about reviewing recommended content. So if a subject specialist (or anyone else) suggested buying a product (or accepting donated content or developing local content) there would be a group to vet and plan for that content.

2: As we move forward, I think we really have to start thinking about the different genres of digital content. A lot of DCC's efforts have been very much about locally created image content. Scholar's Bank to an extent as well, but that seems more like a stand-alone project. Discussions about tabular data and text have been few and far between, but they have occured (or maybe they've been occuring but I've been absent?). Either way, I do think we need BOTH a more integrated approach to locally-created/hosted digital content in all of its genres AS WELL AS a more hands-on technical forum such as Kate describes.

You can certainly read between the lines that my own content falls into these categories. And yes, I feel like I could use more support from the institution for GIS efforts. But there are other projects as well: the Oregonian and Emerald indexes, the Doc Center's local documents project, the VRC's digitizing efforts (admittedly ContentDM based, so maybe that's a bad example), streaming media. There's most likely more. I'm very curious about whether the shepherds of those projects feel like DCC has been a help or a hindrance to them? Or even involved with them at all? Or should it be?

Jon Jablonski
jonjab@uoregon.edu
___________________________________David & Nancy Petrone MAP/GIS Librarian
Knight Library Document Center
University of Oregon.
541-346-3051



On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mark Watson wrote:

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



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