[Sigdl-l] Minutes, SIG-DL Planning Meeting

[Katherine McNeill-Harman]

Minutes
ASIST SIG-DL Planning Meeting
November 19, 2002

Present: Suzie Allard (Past Chair), Deborah Barreau, Allison Brueckner, 
Deborah Helman, Katherine McNeill-Harman (minutes, Secretary/Treasurer), 
Tom Terrell (Chair-elect)

Suzie Allard transmitted the recent financial records to Katherine 
McNeill-Harman, the new Secretary/Treasurer for SIG-DL.

The group was reminded to anticipate next year's deadline for applying for 
SIG of the year.

Tom Terrell currently is the SIG-DL list owner.  Suzie indicated that she 
knows of a potential volunteer who might be interested in taking over this 
duty--she will investigate this.

In discussing the finances of the organization, the group indicated 
interest in spending the money in a visible manner.

Suzie mentioned that some volunteers were scheduled to write up brief 
summaries of select SIG-DL panels at the meeting; she and Kate 
McNeill-Harman will coordinate putting this information up onto the SIG-DL 
web site.

Suzie reminded the group of that evening's SIG-DL Dutch treat dinner.

Members viewed the updated SIG-DL brochure.

Suzie discussed the upcoming annual report, due in August of 2003, 
reminding the group of the template created by Allison Brueckner.

The group also discussed if and how to increase activity on the mailing list.

The group then brainstormed ideas for technical panel sessions for the 2003 
annual meeting, proposals for which are due on January 28, 2003.  Following 
are ideas mentioned, followed by the person who volunteered to coordinate 
it if need be:

1) Continuation/follow-up on 2002 panel, Foundations of Digital Libraries: 
Organizational & Management Issues, to include other examples of management 
issues. (Kate)
2) The ASIST digital library to house ASIST publications (including the 
Bulletin, ARIST, JASIST, and conference proceedings).  Members of SIG-DL 
are being consulted on this project as needed.  Allison has many original 
documents for this project.  In a related project, members briefly 
discussed WIKI, a collaborative workspace that ASIST might want to consider 
utilizing. (Suzie)
3)  Distributed/consortial digital libraries, which could include the 
California Digital Library (Roy Tenet mentioned) and OhioLink (Kate).
4) David Levy as a speaker on the future of digital libraries.
5) Naval Postgraduate School's visualization project (Tom)
6) Broadband and wireless infrastructures as they relate to digital 
libraries (Tom)
7) Howard Besser from UCLA as a speaker (Tom)
8) XEROX PARC projects
9) Multilingual projects, such as that of the University of Monterrey in 
Mexico (Suzie and Deborah Barreau)
10) Oceanography (Allison)
11) UCLA and UCSB gazetteer
12) Medical digital library projects, such as the genome project
13) National Science Digital Library follow-up (Deb Helman)
14)  Design, usability, and HCI of digital libraries (possibly in a more 
interactive, Q&A format) (Kate, Tom, and Suzie (who will talk to Andrew 
Dillon))
15) High school students and technology

Members not attending the meeting were encouraged to think of ideas for 
speakers for these sessions.

Deb Helman also reported that some members of SIG-STI were considering 
organizing a summit on science and engineering digital archives, in which 
SIG-DL would want to get involved.

Members also discussed doing a survey of the number of people on the 
mailing list and possibly having evaluation forms for the panels in 2003.

Kate will post the minutes to the mailing list and send them to Bob for 
inclusion on the web site.  Members.  She will also send the name and 
contact information of the new officers to Gretchen Whitney, SIG Cabinet 
Director, Dick Hill, and to the officers.

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Katherine McNeill-Harman
Data Services Reference Librarian
Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E53-100
Cambridge, MA 02139
mcneillh@mit.edu
617-253-0787