Daniel and all,
This version is really good: what we know is written in a cogent and complete
manner, and the remaining questions seem on target.
Relating to discussions of Control and Collecting, Persistence, and Bib
Control, a library's obligation to collect, describe, and make an object
available perhaps should depend, in part, on the quality of the object itself.
We may not have physical control of some part of the object (a link that leads
to a page we don't maintain); or the metadata may be incomplete or subpar.
Given that we can't control some aspects of what we receive, should we be
thinking in terms of levels of obligation based on the level of quality?
Something like a "high-medium-low-deselect" ranking, in which the highest
quality objects receive the high priority ranking, and so on. (What depicts
highest quality and highest priority and so on can be as vague or specific as
we feel it needs to be for this report.) I'm thinking first of dead links; we
don't like 'em and don't want 'em in things we "collect". If after a year (or
other periodic review) an object has a certain number or percentage of dead
links, our obligation to making it available and/or preserving it intact may
move from top priority to medium.
Melinda
--On Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:31 AM -0500 Daniel Pitti
<dpitti@virginia.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> This is not the final version of the section in the Mellon report on the
> deliberations of the policy committee, but does reflect my revision of text.
> It includes the questions we have been considering, but I have revised them a
> bit. I'd like to use the revise list of questions for our next meeting,
> perhaps jumping to the end of the list to deal with bibliographic
> description. Jumping to this, because I think we have already covered under
> identity issues to some extent, and I like to finish it while that discussion
> is still fresh.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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