Meeting01222008
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Issues for discussion
Meeting of January 22, 2008, 12:00 to 1:30 PM, 904 Clemens Hall
Minutes of this meeting
Mission
- Intellectual identity of the digital humanities group
- Activities consistent with that identity
- Activities outside the scope of the group's mission
Budget priorities
- Determine resource allocations for AY 2007-08
- Travel to other digital humanities centers (UVa, Maryland, Brown, ?)
- Vancouver workshop support
- Software licensing
- Consortium dues (TEI, ACH)
- Other
- Plan resource allocations for subsequent years
- Seek additional revenue
- % of overhead on grants secured by members
- Foundation support
Governance
- Humanities Institute member organization
- Leadership
- Steering Committee
- Charter
- Members
Support
- Additional hire in CASet
- Collaboration with University Libraries
- Subcontracting with other campus units
Proposed agenda
- Short term:
- Collect and analyze feedback from meeting participants
- Form a steering committee
- Develop name and visual identity for group
- Draft charter
- Draft spending proposals
- Evaluate other models for digital humanities groups
- Organize brown-bag sessions for work-in-progress
- Organize follow-up training building on the TEI/XML workshop
- Identify likely external funding sources for individual and group support
- Long term possibilities:
- Organize an annual event (showcase / training)
- Develop regional / trans-border consortium for digital humanities initiatives
- Host visiting scholars on a regular basis
- Develop a graduate certificate in digital humanities
- Explore digital imprint for SUNY Press (see UVa example)