JCDL

COMMUNITY

MEETING

OTTAWA, 6/15/2011

WWW.JCDL.ORG

TCDL

IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries

http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/

furuta@cs.tamu.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE

At large members, terms ending:

• 2011*: Ed Fox, Rudi Schmiede

• 2012: Ingeborg Solvberg, Shigeo Sugimoto

• 2013: Ronald Larsen, Sally Jo Cunningham

Sponsor Representatives:

• IEEE-CS TCDL: Richard Furuta

• ACM SIGIR: Edie Rasmussen (also: TPDL liaison, nominating committee chair – please send her nominations*)

• ACM SIGWEB: David Hicks*

Webmaster: Unmil Karadkar

GOALS• Build community

• Advance the field of digital libraries

• Connect the conference series with attendees

Get feedback on issues and plans

• Future conferences, e.g., 2012 …

• Connections with other organizations

• Build on positive experience in 2010 w. ICADL• TPDL (formerly, ECDL)• Open Repositories• Digital Humanities• …

2012

Washington, D.C

Hand-off at end of this conference

Many key leaders here, e.g.,

• Barrie Howard

• Karim Boughida

• Michael Nelson

2013 (JUNE)

Many key leaders here, e.g.,

• Robert McDonald, Indiana

• Stephen Downie, Illinois

Site: Indianapolis

2014 … AND TPDL

• Discussions with TPDL

• Edie Rasmussen is liaison between the two steering committees

• She chairs a task force to explore issues related to working together

• Some suggestions have been received for:

• Argentina• Italy• UK

• For example, London: George Buchanan

2014 … OTHER SITES

• Atlanta

• Houston

• Argentina

• …

• Please give your preferences and comments about:

• locations,• active groups, • places where we can help with DL community building

STRAW

Atlanta

Buenos Aires

Florence

Hague

London

Puebla

Rio

Salt Lake

COMMUNITY ISSUES

Connect with emerging areas

Connect with related groups

Many dimensions, e.g.,

• Research, development, practice

• Policy: personal, group, organization, region, globe

…

Thank you for your time, involvement, and interest!