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Date of next meeting:   TBA

Members

Richard Ovendon (Chair)   University of Oxford 
Stella Butler University of Manchester 
Maggie Jones DPC
John Maccoll University of Edinburgh
Mike Mertens CURL
David Pearson University of London
Tracey Stanley  University of Leeds
John Tuck British Library
 
Remit and Smart Objectives

Remit

 To lead on behalf of CURL in contributing to the development and implementation of a national strategy for digitisation of research material to meet the needs of researchers: audit, needs / gaps analysis, best practice guide, identification of business models and funding sources
 To lead on behalf of CURL in contributing to the development and implementation of co-ordinated and collaborative strategies aimed at setting up repositories for digitised and born-digital content (e.g. web-sites, eScience and grid computing)
 To identify and take forward areas of collaboration with existing projects and organisations focusing on preservation and long-term access of digital content, and to investigate new digital object management systems

SMART objectives

 To commission a survey of primary digitised collections currently available to researchers in the UKBy April 2004
 To identify those areas where further digitisation work is most needed based on the expressed needs of researchers and the current provision of digitised materials. By July 2004
 To identify areas in which CURL could collaborate within its own member-group, and beyond with other organisations and consortia, including commercial players. By September 2004
 To establish those criteria for essential attributes of digital repositories (including preservation standards and core functional elements) on the basis of work already done by other agencies, which the CURL community can easily and readily follow and which any CURL consortial activities could adopt.  By July 2004
 To create a wide-ranging evaluation of different models (e.g. DSpace, SHERPA, ENCompass, OCLC) based on implementations in different CURL institutions, and to make recommendations for consortial repository projects. By July 2004
 To identify consortial digitisation areas for funding proposals.  By Dec 04
 Recommend arrangements for allocating IPR for any consortial digitisation ventures. By Dec 04
 To identify areas for funding proposals for collaborative digital collection management. By Dec 04