RLG Programs Whats developed since

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RLG Programs - Whats developed since

• Jim Michalko
• VP, RLG Programs
• Update 30 Oct 2006
• Members Council

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Progress the elements

• Oversight and direction
• RLG Partners
• Programs with Research
• Near-term work
• But first a word about naming

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Naming

• the programmatic efforts and interactions
• RLG Programs
• the research enterprise and activities
• OCLC Research
• the new division
• OCLC Programs and Research

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Oversight and direction

• RLG Committee of the Board of Trustees
• First meeting September 24, 2006
• Account, regulate, assess
• Charter established expectations clarified
• Budget explained reporting agreed
• Two meetings September and April
• Attend June/July annual meeting of Partners
• Program Council
• First meeting October 27, 2006
• Advise, represent and amplify
• Charter established role clarified
• Two meetings September and January
• Attend June/July annual meeting of Partners

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Committee members

• James Neal (Chair) (Columbia University)
• Nancy Eaton (Pennsylvania State University)
• Carol Mandel (New York University)
• Lizabeth Wilson (University of Washington)
• Jane Ryland (Educause)
• Elisabeth Niggemann (Die Deutsche Bibliothek)

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Program Council members

• Carol Mandel (New York University)
• James Neal (Columbia University)
• Chris Rusbridge (Digital Curation Centre,
  University of Edinburgh)
• Gary Strong (Chair) (University of California,
  Los Angeles)
• Lizabeth Wilson (University of Washington)
• David Zeidberg (Huntington Library)

• Shirley Baker (Washington University in St.
  Louis)
• Nancy Eaton (Pennsylvania State University)
• Kenneth Hamma (J. Paul Getty Trust)
• Tony Hey (Microsoft)
• Wendy Pradt Lougee (University of Minnesota)
• Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked
  Information)

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RLG Partners retention and recruiting

• 151 RLG Partner institutions
• 95 of former members transitioned to RLG
  Partners
• New Partners
• University of Melbourne
• University of California at Los Angeles T
• University of Washington
• Oregon State University
• Recruitment driven by
• program areas
• specific work agenda

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Programs with Research planning and agenda
efforts

• Entry point
• creating a strategic agenda
• finding areas of mutual interest and leverage
• integrating and refining legacy agendas
• All-hands planning session August
• Skill, interest and activity matching
• Service transition, enterprise contributions,
  modes of working - ongoing

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Programs Areas of Focus
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Near-term work opportunities current teams

• People, places, things Archives
• registries and authorities work
• Virtual International Authority File
• extending participation future scale
• Frameworks beyond Library Landscape
• extend shared view to archives and museums
• detail an important library process
• Integrated Library System Service layer
• propose interactions between service providers
  and backend functions of ILS
• Chart mass digitization course
• Collaboration, policy, practice, impacts

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Next steps

• Program areas
• Create road maps
• Derive program of work
• Assign resources and timelines
• Remedy gaps
• Integration with enterprise
• Delineate working relations
• Specify desired contributions
• Partner interactions
• Recruit as appropriate
• Refresh modes of engagement

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RLG Programs - Whats developed since

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• Lorcans - http//orweblog.oclc.org/
• Programs http//www.hangingtogether.org
• Research - http//www.oclc.org/research/

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