Dear All
Apologies for being out of the loop for so long - illness and
consequences thereof. Getting back to normal now, and I'll try to be a
more active and pro-active chair of this group.
By way of trying to make sure I had caught up with the discussion so far,
as I read through it I updated the 'document framework' on our web site
www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/allc/adhoc
with a sequence of bullet points in each section (except the last).
I'm bound to have missed things, and this exercise
of course loses the often rich prose of the initial and modified
expression of ideas, but I found it useful as a way of trying to get a
sense of what the overall picture might now be looking like.
There appears to be a considerable degree of common purpose in the
exchanges so far which bodes well for our coming up with a set of agreed
proposals. My sense after reviewing the whole is that we have reasonably
well developed ideas in some areas, less well developed in others, but
something that even now has a - perhaps surprising - degree of coherence.
According to the suggested timetable on our website, we are due to
have completed initial section drafts by the end of December. If during
my silence you have lost track of which section you're responsible
for, it's set out clearly in the 'document framework'! (JU and I have
shared out the first four sections so that each of us will do the
initial work on two of them; the final section needs to wait.)
What I suggest is that section drafters try now to prepare a draft,
if possible using the structure suggested in the terms of reference
document:
* Aims & objectives
* Current practice
* Range of possibilities
* Proposals
* Financial implications
* Transition requirements/options
My hope is that this will help us identify areas where we need
to have more discussion to tease out early ideas, and in the
more fully discussed areas will help us see how things fit
together. We need to meet the end of December target for a
'first draft' if we possibly can, and my sense is that we've made
sufficient progress for this to be attainable.
Elisabeth, Espen and I will be reporting to the ALLC Committee
meeting in Bremen on 14-15 Dec on how things are developing,
and will no doubt have some responses to feed into the discussion
after the meeting.
Best wishes
Harold
Harold Short
Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739/2684 fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
www.kcl.ac.uk/cch
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