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1. Concept of Networking Cultural Heritage How familiar is your organization and its constituents with the terms of this vision and with the current issues that have to be grappled with to make this vision a reality? This is a hard one for ACLS, since Doug and I are "very familiar," but I genuinely do not know how familiar John D'Arms is. Certainly some members of our Board are familiar, but my impression is that ACLS has an internal rebuilding job to do -- and John D'Arms seems genuinely open to that. |
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2a Given this definition of advocacy, how does your organization advocate for networking cultural heritage? One of the principal reasons I wanted to establish NINCH was to provide the advocacy function which ACLS needs to advocate for the uses of networked information in research and teaching. We get some support from NHA, and from NCC, but NINCH is our principal reliance. That, and Doug's efforts (CONFU and WIPO), but next year Doug will be gone. |
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2b Do you have a different working definition of advocacy than the one we offer here? -- |
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2c Projects? Of the projects that your organization participates in, which are related to digital networking? -- |
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2d Partners? If you collaborate with partners in any networking advocacy activity, who are they? Apart from NINCH and DFC, our principal partners for digital matters are ARL and RLG, I should think. Although of course we joined SPA in doing the video on the preservation of electronic information. We also have an important relation to HUMANIST, which I think very important to all of us. And we are excited about the possibility of a relationship with NAE on computing in the humanities. |
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2e Measure Success? How do you measure the success of your networking advocacy projects? -- |
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2f Target? Besides NINCH members, what groups should NINCH target for advocacy? NINCH has to choose targets of opportunity for advocacy, and it must do that by keeping closely in touch with the membership. |
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For us, I think intellectual property would stand at the head of the list, by far, with preservation, standards and internationalism following close behind. My feeling is that if we lose the i.p. battle, we have lost almost everything. You haven't got a category for something important to us, which I suppose I would call "applications:" how do we use networked information effectively in teaching and research. And "education:" how do we get the word out about what is available, what is at risk, and where to go get help or get help. |
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