Dear all,
Guy Leduc wrote:
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Dear all,
Given this agreement (enforcing the Springer DL), does it still make sense to address the following point raised at the last TC6 meeting :
11. Relations with IEEE and other organisations There were discussions of digital libraries in relation to the IEEE and the European Commission. Augusto Casaca and André Danthine suggested that there may be funding available from IFIP and/or UNESCO. Augusto Casaca also commented that a digital library would be much cheaper if it were not retrospective. A task force was proposed to look into this. Volunteers included André Danthine, Dominique Gaiti, Günter Haring, Arun Iyengar, Guy Leduc, Dipak Khakhar, and Guy Pujolle Action Point (AP62/07): The digital library task force: to decide who should act as chairman of the task force and to start work.
Best regards, Guy
PS: Do we have the final version of the minutes, taking corrections into account ?
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Indeed, our possibilities appear to be more limited (which is not so bad per se) since we should prefer or use exclusiveley the Springer DL offers. Thus agenda point 11 appears to be less relevant when considering digital libraries. By the way: It has shown once again that it is almost impossible to start an initiative if no initiator is immediately fixed (the distributed election problem). Would you, Guy (Leduc) protest very much if we nominate you as the chairman of this task force group? There are more points to be discussed which are related to our cooperation with IEEE/ACM and other organisations. This concerns sponsorship questions, publication questions etc. We will do that at meeting 2004/2 in Bangkok - or before in the task group.
Best regards Otto
p.s.: A attach a modified version of the minutes where I tried to incorporate the corrections.