Coordinating Committees

UW Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee

2010/2011 Annual Report to CUWL
July 28, 2011

Committee Members

Paul Beck (UW-La Crosse), Amy Cooper-Cary (UW-Milwaukee-faculty), Michael Doylen (chair, UW-Milwaukee), Michael Edmonds (Wisconsin Historical Society), Peter Gorman (UWDCC), Anne Kasuboski (UW-Green Bay), Paige Mano (UW-Parkside), Rebecca Peters (UW-Stout), Dave Dettman (UW Colleges), Heidi Southworth (UW River Falls), Paul Roberts (ex officio, CUWL)

Meetings

The committee met by teleconference on August 31, October 26, November 30, May 24, and June 28. Additionally, the chair attended monthly meetings of the coordinating committee chairs, as well as CUWL meetings.

Project Proposal Reviews

The committee reviewed the following project proposals

  • UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies Reports (UW Milwaukee)
  • Charles Van Hise Survey Notebooks (Wisconsin Geologic and Natural History Survey—UW Extension)
  • Archives of Archaeology (Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center—UW La Crosse)
  • Campus Cornerstone (UW Whitewater)
  • Aviation History of Racine and Kenosha (UW Parkside)
  • 1976 National Symposium on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. (UW Stevens Point)

Promotional Activities

A working group consisting of Cooper-Cary, Doylen, Kasuboski, Melissa McLimans (UWDCC), and Southworth developed marketing pieces promoting DCC collections and services. The pieces were distributed to the UW campuses which took responsibility for forwarding them to faculty.

The CUWL annual conference included several DCC-related sessions, including one on digital collections with presentations by Melissa McLimans and past DICC Chair Joshua Ranger (UW Oshkosh).

Michael Doylen and Melissa McLimans gave a presentation on UW Digital Collections and MINDS@UW on April 21.

Other

2010/2011 minutes and reports of the committee are either posted on the CUWL website or waiting to be uploaded.

Respectfully submitted,
Michael Doylen