Sept. 27 and Nov. 1, 2002 meeting notes

Present:

Sept. 27 - R. Becker, Ed Berger, L. Langschied, s. McDonald, A. Montanaro, B. Sewell, J. Still (via teleconference)
Nov. 1 - R. Becker, L. Langschied, s. McDonald, A. Montanaro, B. Sewell, J. Still (via teleconference)

The goals are to develop guidelines and a questionnaire to evaluate digitization projects.

The primary stakeholders are Libraries' faculty and staff, teaching faculty and researchers; secondary stakeholders are students.

Purview of Working Group:

• Digitization Projects, not all digital projects, e.g., not digital projects such as research guides and instructional tutorials.
• The focus on evaluation of matters related to content: is it significant to field, important impact on RUL teaching & research; nature of content - how long is useful, how often does it need updating, etc.
• Only projects that will have the RUL imprimatur, i.e., on RUL web page and have IRIS record. No "~" projects.

A list of criteria has been established. We are developing weighting for each criterion and how they interact with each other as well as how they will articulate with the technical issues of sustainability that will be developed by DAWG working group.

Grants for digitization projects should be reviewed according to the criteria developed by the two working groups.

Issues of preservation and copyright are important elements in the evaluation process.

The grid below is a schematic representation of the criteria.

The next meeting is Dec. 6, at 9:30. Discussion via email, in-person will go on before meeting.