Minutes
Steering Committee
June 24, 2004
Teleconference
Hosted by Library & Archives Canada
Minutes
Present
Brian Bell (Chair), HALINET
Bill Maes, Dalhousie University
Frits Pannekoek, (Vice Chair) University of Calgary
Johanna Wellheiser, Toronto Public Library
Absent
David McKnight, McGill University
Chris Petter, University of Victoria
Leigh Swain, ex officio, Library and Archives Canada
Secretariat
Ralph Manning, Library and Archives Canada
Michelle Landriault, Coordinator, CIDL
Preamble
This meeting was a wrap-up discussion of the CIDL June 3 2004 Open Meeting at the Fairmont Winnipeg to review the outcomes and determine what action items come next. Chair Brian Bell asked for round-table comments.
The following key points were made:
1. CIDL Steering Committee will develop action items coming out of Open Meeting. To begin this process the Steering Committee will undertake to:
Condense the working document "Digital Canada: Toward a Common Information Infrastructure" into a charter document, and distribute to the CIDL membership, the Open Meeting participants, and a wider community of selected memory organizations for discussion and feedback. Target date: October 2004.
Action: Johanna Wellheiser, Bill Maes, David McKnight
2. In tandem with Fall 2004 charter document distribution and resulting discussions, the CIDL Steering Committee will form a sub-committee of CIDL stakeholders to organize and oversee working groups that will have specific targets such as:
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Outline steps for CIDL to advance its role with Library & Archives Canada as it relates to convergence issues and national standards. |
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Review international standards to propose a Canadian set of digitization standards and develop and/or distribute practical tools and portals that consider the dynamics of bilingualism, and the presence of Canada's multicultural and Aboriginal communities. |
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Establish dialogue with memory organizations at all levels through speaking engagements and consultations to build flexible platforms for national standards. |
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Develop a Fall 2005 conference to review and analyze the impact of convergence taking place amongst Canadian memory organizations based on elements from the charter document "Digital Canada: Toward a Common Information Infrastructure". |
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Attach a policy day to the Fall 2005 conference for invited partners and investors. |
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Recruit business partners, whose interests will be enhanced by a set of national best practices, that can offer guidance for technological innovation through award opportunities. |
Next Meeting
The next Steering Committee meeting will take place in the fall of 2004 in Montreal.
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