Melinda,
I like the idea of a sliding scale, with some things necessarily being
completely uncollectable because they fail to meet a minimum threshold. I
suspect we'll see if this will work or not as we move along.
Daniel
At 03:26 PM 1/17/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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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>Melinda Baumann
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Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
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