FORUM 2001Program

6:00pm-7:00pm

Welcome Reception
Summit Room

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Meeting Registration

Keynote Address: Lawrence Grossman
Getty East Building
Herculaneum

• The Digital Promise

• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice
  Brief presentations and discussion

Researching & Creating the Guide
- Seamus Ross, Director, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University, Scotland

Views from the Working Group
- Peter Hirtle, Co-director, Cornell Institute for Digital Collections; Vice President, Society of American Archivists
- Lorna Hughes, Director, New York University Humanities Computing Group
The NINCH Guide: Discussion

• Building Blocks: Infrastructure Issues
  Brief presentations and discussion

  Chair: Charles Henry, CIO & Vice President, Rice University

Introduction: Outline & Expectations,
- Steven Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies

The Workshop Experience

- Mary Davidson, Head, Cook Music Library, Indiana University Library

- Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries

- Jeffrey Cohen, Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College; Society for Architectural Historians

- John Unsworth, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Getting Projects Done

- Mark Kornbluh, Executive Director, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
- Howard Besser, Associate Professor of Education & Information Studies, UCLA

What Next?
David Green, Executive DIrector, NINCH
Charles Henry, CIO & Vice President, Rice University

What Next? Open Discussion

 

7:40pm
8:00pm
8:20pm

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Session Three
Getty East Building
Herculaneum

• Workshop: NINCH's Future & Key Issues for the Digital Cultural Community

I INTRODUCTION
David Green

 

II PRESENTATIONS
Brief presentations on programmatic activity and achievements to date; and possible new areas of work

The NINCH International Database of Digital Humanities Projects
- John Unsworth, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Digital Copyright: Town Meetings and Beyond

- Christine Sundt, Visual Resources Curator, University of Oregon

New Economic Models: the CLIR-NINCH Conference and Beyond
- Abby Smith, Director of Programs, Council on Library & Information Resources

 

New European initiatives and Collaborative Possibilities
- Seamus Ross, Director, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University, Scotland

Digital Preservation

- Howard Besser, Associate Professor of Education & Information Studies, UCLA

New NINCH Member Services

- Amy Masciola, Assistant to the Director, NINCH

 

Break

III TRANSITION 
Plenary discussion led by facilitator on patterns in the programs old and newly suggested; what is needed and what is missing? Discussion of the representation of the educational and cultural community in NINCH: who is best and who least represented? Any new definitions of NINCH and its goals? Discussion of what the subjects of the small group discussions should be (default subjects below)

IV GROUP DISCUSSION
Break into groups of 8 (including facilitator and recorder).
Below is suggested menu of choices (but exact subjects can be decided during the TRANSITION section).

1. DATABASES & INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSES: The NINCH Database and beyond. In the world of OAI what is the role of such clearinghouses; what more is needed? John Unsworth and Lorna Hughes
2. GUIDES TO GOOD PRACTICE: Given the IMLS Framework and other work, what is the place of The NINCH Guide and what should its future be. In what other areas should there be similar (or different) work? Peter Hirtle and Kathy Jones
3. Institutional MODELS OF SUSTAINABILITY: Beyond the projected work of the CLIR-NINCH project, what kind of problems and solutions need to be "modelled" for institutions digitizing collections? Abby SMith and Stanley Katz
4. INTERNATIONAL Collaboration & Involvement: which areas are most ripe for international involvement; what is the best role (if any) for NINCH. Seamus Ross and David Green
5. DIGITAL PRESERVATION: are all the bases covered; any role for NINCH?
   Howard Besser
6. INFORMATION EXCHANGE & Services: What kinds of news and informationservices are most needed (digests; bulletins, etc) and who should be providing them? Amy Masciola

Groups should both brainstorm around specific sets of questions:

A) What are the needs, problems and stumbling blocks in this area that you come
across most frequently in doing your job? (20 minutes)

B) What are some solutions to these problems? Which groups should attempt to refine/implement the solutions? If NINCH, which people would be the ideal to help refine/implement and how would it best be funded? (20 minutes)

C) Time for re-thinking and summarizing (5 minutes)

REPORTS:

Recorders will make 5-minute reports during the final session (Session Five, below), leaving 30 minutes for plenary discussion. Their reports will be gathered and used for our final meeting report.

• Henry's Harmonica: Memory, History, and Technology in a Genocidal World

Session Four
Getty East Building
Herculaneum

• Virtual Tour of Digital Resources at the Getty Center

Public Access:
Ken Hamma, Assistant Director, The Getty Museum

 

The Getty Vocabularies as Knowledge Bases and Searching Assistants
Murtha Baca, Head, Getty Standards Program, Getty Research Institute

 

Querying Across Repositories: ENCompass
Joe Shubitowski, Head of Information Systems, Getty Research Institute

Session Five
Getty East Building
Herculaneum

• Workshop Reports: The Path Ahead