ACTION: HS, LH, RS respectively to request appointment of ADHO SC members June 2008 - June 2009 from ALLC, ACH & SDH/SEMI executive committees, and to report back to follow-up ADHO SC meeting on Wed 25 June.
Note: This action was completed and reported in Minute 12.2.
ADHO website needs overhaul.
ACTION: JU will review and advise.
AGREED: To accept proposal of Pubs Ctee, and recommend to association committees
to agree funds to support a systems developer/manager for ADHO publications activity to
make integration and scaling of the infrastructure possible. This would include Conftool.
JU recommends starting with a backstop budget of 6,000 USD p.a. to enable integrated
development of infrastructure and longer-term maintenance. This would cover notional 1
day per month of a systems developer/manager. This sum to be added to the planned
expenditure for 2008.
Prop: CB Sec: EO Nem con
ACTION: HS, JU, RS to propose additional expenditure to respective association committees.
Note: This action was completed and reported in Minute 12.1.1.
Plagiarism a serious issue. PT reported that OUP's Manuscript Central is planning pilot with CrossCheck software.
ACTION: MD & PT to propose LLC as a guinea pig in the pilot.
ACTION: LH will check that LLC is linked from arts-humanities.net.
ACTION: JU will discuss with JF editorial process involved in development of shared bibliographic database to ensure widest value across the community. Import/export facilities will be particularly important. LH will suggest Torsten Reimer talks to JF about bibliography he is constructing.
RS reported that because of concerns and problems with McMaster, 2007 subvention from ADHO was not used for TT. SDH/SEMI is working to withdraw from TT, and is considering proposing a new SDH/SEMI electronic journal to integrate with DHQ and LLC, with emphasis on 'sustainable integration', especially in regard to multi-lingual publication. SDH/SEMI and Pubs Ctee will put forward a full proposal in due course.
ACTION: RS will follow up within Pubs Ctee, and then will present proposal to SC.
ACTION: CCC Chair to oversee further editing and completion of Protocol Annex and Guidelines documents. ALL to review and send comments to CCC Chair.
ACTION: Claire Warwick and RS to draft Guidelines for Programme Committee for discussion by CCC and then by SC.
ACTION: JU, RS + Sara Schmidt to prepare documentation for Conftool and the abstract publication system.
ACTION: CCC to carry forward and complete the drafting of the framework Memorandum of Understanding between ADHO SC and the Local Organiser of a DH conference.
ACTION: HS will raise this in ALLC Committee meeting.
Note: This action was completed and reported in Minute 14.
ACTION: JU and EB will review possible use of Conftool to provide data for MLMC research.
ACTION: JU will investigate possibility for Conftool to be used in preparation and hosting of multi-lingual versions of the conference call for proposals.
ACTION: HS to initiate and manage email discussion among Association committees and SC, beginning with circulation of the ALLC discussion. HS to take responsibility for the refinement of the Fortier Prize protocol.
ACTION: HS to revise Awards Committee protocols as agreed in the SC meetings.
ACTION: HS and RS to continue the discussion of the SDH/SEMI share outside the meeting, and to consider whether other types of modelling may be possible.
ACTION: RS will ask Pubs Ctee to consider a role as recipient of requests for peer review participation.
AGREED: Chair of MLMC Committee should be included as a lurker on the PC email list.
ACTION: JU will amend protocol, and will add EB to PC2009 list.
AGREED: Governance protocol should stipulate that all members of committees must be paid-up subscribers.
ACTION: HS to review governance protocol and recommend changes.
AGREED: CCC should be asked to review possibilities and implications of conference being held outside N America and Europe.
ACTION: As incoming CCC Chair, JU will lead a review of Conference venues
AGREED: A good idea to introduce a certificate for the Poster Prize winner.
ACTION: JU will review CCC documentation with regard to the Poster Prize, including specifying it as a LO responsibility and requirement for a certificate for the winner(s).
ACTION: JU will review CCC documentation with the intention of making it a requirement for LO to use ADHO system for production of abstracts with effect from the 2009 conference.