Re: State of play

From: Harold Short (harold.short@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 04:34:49 EDT

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    Julia's question makes me wonder whether we need to clarify a couple of
    things before we go public. My reading/understanding was that our
    proposal is based on the idea that it is only organisations that will
    be members of ADHO itself, and that individuals will be 'members' of
    ADHO by virtue of membership in one or more of its constituent
    organisations. Individuals will become members of a regional chapter
    by subscribing to LLC, and may become members of other ADHO member
    organisations by following whatever subscription or admission
    procedures they have - e.g. TEI subscriptions.

    The issue of membership benefits across/between the various AHDO
    organisations is certainly something that will need to be followed up.
    There are some suggestions in our documents - e.g. reduced fees: for
    subscriptions, for conferences, and for other member organisation
    activities - but I'm sure there is scope for imaginative thinking
    beyond the things we've touched on. And some aspects are bound to be
    rather thorny - in particular I think of institutional subscribers to
    LLC who would also like to be institutional members of TEI;. We'd need
    to have thought clearly about how this would work - one issue in this
    case being the significant difference between an LLC sub and a TEI
    sub... Even there, I'm pretty sure John gives a 'for instance'
    suggestion in his paper.

    If there is ambiguity either in our thinking or in our wording it would
    be a good idea to resolve it before we go public, because this is a
    fairly fundamental issue.

    I'll wait to see what other comments come in, but later today I'll see
    what I can do to clarify/resolve any issues raised by adhoc members,
    particulary in the executive summary.

    Best wishes

    Harold

    On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 17:54 Europe/London, Julia Flanders
    wrote:

    > I think this all looks good--a very impressive amount of work and
    > thought, and very thorough. The only point which I had to reread
    > several times to understand is the question of how membership fees
    > would be assessed and allocated (but this may be addressed by the idea
    > that only ACH and ALLC are truly "merging" their membership). I found
    > myself wishing for some scenarios--person X is a member of the new
    > ADHO group, and also a member of TEI and STS. How much does she pay,
    > and to whom? does it matter in what order she joins these groups? I
    > don't think this information needs to be added to the summary, but we
    > should perhaps anticipate that people will ask about it.
    >
    > best, Julia
    >
    >> Dear All
    >>
    >> John and I have completed an 'executive summary' to go with the
    >> papers, and the full set is now available on the adhoc web site at:
    >>
    >> www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/allc/adhoc
    >>
    >> We would like to give the url to our respective council/committee
    >> tomorrow if possible, so that our colleagues have time to read our
    >> proposals and begin to consider them ahead of the Georgia meetings.
    >>
    >> We had hoped to be at this stage a bit sooner, but I'm afraid my
    >> absence (on a wonderful holiday! I'm sorry to say) has delayed
    >> things. All the same, please have a look at the web site as it now
    >> is, and at the exec summary in particular, and let me know if you can
    >> see any glaring problems or errors, or if you think anything needs
    >> attention before our council/committee colleagues are invited to go
    >> there.
    >>
    >> Thanks to all of you for some excellent work - in my view, at least!
    >>
    >> Best wishes
    >>
    >> Harold
    >>
    >> PS I've had a bit of difficulty uploading 3 pdf files to the server,
    >> so bear with me if you find those particular links don't work at
    >> first.
    >>
    >>
    >> 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
    >
    >
    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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