Apparently, there was some confusion about my wording in the note below.
There will only be one in-person meeting as part of this initiative. However, there will be a series of follow-up teleconferences and virtual conversations that will come out of the initial meeting. Our plan is to use the meeting to brainstorm and discuss what what might be the most impactful/most potentially fruitful/most community-prioritized topics. One of the key outcomes of the in-person meeting will be determining what those topics are and prioritizing them.
We are planning to have a live-stream of the event, presuming there is sufficient bandwidth at the meeting site.
Todd
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From: "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)" <tcarpenter@xxxxxxxx>
To: bib-roadmap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Nettie Lagace" <nlagace@xxxxxxxx>, "Todd Carpenter" <todd@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 9:39:50 AM
Subject: [bib-roadmap] Selecting a date for NISO's Bibliographic Roadmap in-person meeting
Good morning everyone,
We had a great response to the survey for when we should hold an in-person meeting to flesh out the direction of the meeting. From the responses, 58% of you said that piggybacking on the ALA meeting would make sense, which was the overwhelming favorite when it came to co-locating our meeting with another. However, more than 77% of you said you could attend an independent meeting in the Baltimore/Washington area. Many responded that they couldn't attend any meeting without some travel support.
So as a result of this poll, we will move forward planning to hold a day and a half in-person meeting in the Baltimore/Washington area. To select the best date, we'll do another short poll. Please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/niso-bibroadmap-mtg and record which dates are best for you. Please respond by this Friday with you're preferences. We will announce the results next week.
We have identified the following dates: Monday-Tuesday, March 11-12
Monday-Tuesday, March 25-26
Tuesday-Wednesday, March 26-27
Wednesday-Thursday, March 27-28
Monday-Tuesday, April 15-16
Monday-Tuesday, April 22-23
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26
Thursday-Friday, May 2-3
Monday-Tuesday, May 6-7
Many of those who said they couldn't attend the meeting replied they couldn't do so for funding reasons. A large part of the funding that we've received from the Mellon Foundation is to support the travel costs of an identified group of participants. We will reach out directly to those that respond who are eligible for funding. (Unfortunately, Mellon's grant funding guidelines required us to provide a list of eligible people/institutions, so this is not an openly available stipend, but we were as inclusive as we could be in our list.)
Our plan for the initial meeting is to collectively prepare a draft bullet list of potential discussion topics with a brief background on each topic (if necessary) that we will circulate prior to the meeting. This discussion list will provide the basis for an un-conference style discussion of grouping topics and approaches that we as a group will prioritize and discuss. We will then break out into a variety of groups to discuss the subtopics of greatest interest. We will iterate this process a few times to identify and flesh out the topics of the highest priority from its participants. By the end of the second day, we hope to have identified 3-6 sub-topics that need further exploration and discussion. Subgroups will be formed for virtual meetings and conversations after the in-person meeting to discuss those sub-topics in more detail during a series of teleconferences and webinars. .
In order to draft this talking-points, bullet list, your ideas about topics are most welcome and we can begin some discussion on this list by suggesting them now. Among those that came up during the call were: economics, user issues, project identification/mapping ongoing work, implementation barriers, development/implementation timeline, user interfaces. At this stage, no ideas are bad ones!
Thank you again for your interest in this project and for helping to push the initiative forward.
Todd |
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