Folks,
Time is short, and Harold's on the road (possibly without documents:
Harold, call if you need someone to vouch for you with Homeland
Security...) so I'm going to push this item forward with the group.
Harold and Lorna and I met for an afternoon in Chicago, and worked out
some details of the governance document, which can be found at:
http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/ifdish.html
I should explain about IFDiSH. Nobody liked ADHO, as we know: when
Harold and Lorna and I met, there was not a lot of enthusiasm for
either Cocoh (or cocho), nor for ohco. Too much of the past. We tried
to come up with something better, and thought that whatever the rest of
the label might be, digital scholarship in the humanities should be
part of it. That's the DiSH part. IF is International Federation,
because we thought international was an important qualifier, and we
need some sort of group-category, like
organization/federation/gang/flock/pod etc.. So, please read the
attached with awareness that we don't have to stick with IFDiSH--the
point is the guidance proposed in the document. That much, we do need
to have in shape, when we meet in Sweden, even if we are still waffling
on our name.
John
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