RLUK_Mike: That's all folks! Thanks v. much 2 Michael Emly & Alison Faraday, & all our speakers today (especially given the train situation!) #rluksafe
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RLUK_Mike: David Prosser - other major themes, adapting the #UKRR for monographs, addressing a digital surrogate register for the UK #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: RT @speccollbrad: Hard at work on #rluk #oclc survey - I'm commenting on #borndigital bit - well, I like a challenge!
RLUK_Mike: David Prosser: some key themes - the necessity not just the choice of collaboration; advocacy; evidence (metadata & case studies) #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: Would a next generation solution be 2 rapidly digitize title pages & use visual pattern recognition 2 deduplicate our collections? #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: How should we take the #rluksafe work forward: can we expect a top-down model or are we the community the likely operative force here?
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Digital Resource Management Sub-Group
The Digital Resource Management Sub-Group's aim is to implement a major strand of the work to be accomplished by the Digital Content Creation and Curation Task Force. Its management of digital resources will include major collaboration with other CURL projects and initiatives on ePrints, eTheses, eScience, and digitisation.
Date of next meeting: TBA
Members
John MacColl (Chair) University of Edinburgh
Sheila Anderson AHDS
James Currall University of Glasgow
Maggie Jones DPC
Robert Kiley Wellcome Trust
Mike Mertens CURL
Peter Morgan University of Cambridge
David Ryan The National Archives
Tracey Stanley University of Leeds
Remit
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.
To create a wide-ranging evaluation of different models (eg DSpace, SHERPA, ENCompass, OCLC) based on implementations in different CURL institutions, and to make recommendations for consortial repository projects
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