Coordinating Committees
Progress Report to CUWL, January 23, 2008
Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee
DICC Members - Joshua Ranger, Chair UW-Oshkosh; Paul Beck UW-La Crosse; Michael Doylen UW-Milwaukee; Michael Edmonds Wisconsin Historical Society; Peter Gorman UW-Madison; Carol Hagness UW-Stout; Mark Rozmarynowski UW-Baraboo; Vicki Tobias UW-Madison; Tony Gulig UW-Whitewater, Faculty; Patrick Wilkinson CUWL; Paul Moriarty UWSA
Meeting: December 5th, 2007
The DICC was scheduled to meet at UW Baraboo on December 5th. The meeting was cancelled due to inclement weather but the group met via teleconference that day to discuss one pressing agenda items: a UWDC proposal from Wisconsin Historical Society regarding the continuation of their EAD finding aid project. This project, to which, the UWDC has contributed greatly, seeks to create EAD finding aids for all currently written paper finding aids for WHS collections. For these EAD projects, the WHS is made the outsourced service provider, so that while UWDC funds are used, little work needs to be done by UWDCC staff to complete the projects. WHS requested up to $52,586.82 to convert 5,000 pages, which constitute approximately one-quarter of the remaining pages left undone. The project was scalable, however, the DICC supported the idea of funding the full request. After some discussion about the budget and appropriate WHS contribution to the project the budget was revised to $42,960 for 5,000 pages. The DICC approved half of this money ($21,480) in the 07-08 fiscal year and pledged the second half—subject to budget—in the 08-09 fiscal year.
Meeting: January 7th, 2008
To complete the agenda originally planned for the 12/5/2007, the DICC met on 1/7/2008 at UW Baraboo. Here the DICC reviewed each of the action plans with detailed conversations regarding the whole committee’s expectations for each one. Working groups were formalized and meetings of those groups were planned. The WIKI was discussed and will be developed to aid in communication and task planning.
Respectfully submitted, January 28, 2008
Joshua P. Ranger
Chair, Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee.