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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? On the questions themselves in this section, I would say that to the staff of the Council and the Commission, this vision is very familiar. For many of those associated with our organizations, I would say the vision is somewhat familiar.. |
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2a Given this definition of advocacy, how does your organization advocate for networking cultural heritage? Supporting/facilitating cooperation among institutions; identifying issues and assembling task forces or commissioning reports to address the issues--all for the purpose of advancing and disseminating practical knowledge about emerging issues |
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2b Do you have a different working definition of advocacy than the one we offer here? I do not think your working definition is specific enough. I should think lobbying would be an important part of your work. Ultimately, policy makers must be persuaded that the networks offer an important educational resource that has to be supported. In what way do you "go beyond education"? Our only difference in definition is that we attempt to stay in the practical realm and we do not seek to educate everyone. We do place emphasis on influencing those who influence. |
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2c Projects? Of the projects that your organization participates in, which are related to digital networking? Among our digital networking projects are: National Digital Library Federation; the Digital Archiving Task Force; Civil War Virtual Library Project (in cooperation with OCLC); Yale's Social Science Data Archive Project; technical publications series; |
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2d Partners? If you collaborate with partners in any networking advocacy activity, who are they? Our most common partners in collaborative projects: individual universities, OCLC, RLG, ARL, Library of Congress |
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2e Measure Success? How do you measure the success of your networking advocacy projects? Measure success by our ability to secure funds for the projects we propose |
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2f Target? Besides NINCH members, what groups should NINCH target for advocacy? NINCH will probably need to target universities and colleges for advocacy, whether or not they become NINCH members. |
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Most universities and libraries need to know more about the technical challenges of interoperability. More descriptions of best practices would also be useful. |
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1. Access 2. Preservation 3. Economics 4. Standards 5. Intellectual property 6. Internationalism cuts across every one of these topics, but as a stand-alone, I suppose I put it at the bottom of the list. I should also say that intellectual property will be a defining attribute for most projects undertaken by NINCH. I ranked it here according to how I think NINCH should spend its scarce human and financial resources. |
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