Dear all,
I have made a few corrections to the publications report and put it
up as a PDF at:
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/ach/cocho.pub.report.1.pdf
I'm not yet comfortable enough with IFDiSH to substitute that name
in, but I defer to the will of the group.
Lorna asked me to extract some principles for purposes of discussion.
As I understand it, the idea was to have a shorter set of principles
that help people understand the point. Here is my take on principles:
1. There should be a joint publications committee that provides
leadership to activities of the federation and which identifies
opportunities for efficient collaboration.
1.1 This committee would not replace or manage publication activities
by the member organizations - it would coordinate them.
1.2 Individual publication venues would continue to the owned by
member organizations.
1.3 The membership of this publication committee should be
representative of the federated organizations and the linguistic
diversity of our community.
2. One immediate opportunity for cooperation is the creation of an
online journal that is both about humanities computing and
demonstrates the use of humanities computing techniques.
2.1 Should the new contract for the LLC not meet the need for an
online journal in the community, then the publications committee
should proceed with a call for proposals to find a partner to develop
one.
3. Other activities that the publications committee could coordinate
would be the establishment of a news engine, the promotion of CHWP as
a place for working papers, exploring a way of sharing web services,
and establishing a print series around humanities computing.
3.1 In general the committee should develop ideas, take them to the
federation for approval and then manage the startup by finding
partners to take on the initiative and implement it. The committee
should not run projects, at most it should review and report on
existing projects, though that should also happen through the
"owners" of projects.
These did not, due to time, go to the publications committee. They
are "informal" principles.
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Yours,
Geoffrey R.
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