2CUL TSI Steering Committee meeting, 12 August 2013
Attending (via WebEx): Kate, Jim, Colleen, Boaz, Robert
- We reviewed some detailed notes from the high-level 2CUL Steering Committee meeting, held via Polycom on July 31st. Of particular interest were questions related to the governance and business models for the 2CUL project as a whole. It would be useful to understand more about the business model before moving forward with TSI planning. On the other hand, it will be difficult to establish some of the finer points of the business model without the potential 2CUL workflow scenarios to which to apply them.. We agreed that this is a chicken-and-egg situation, and that we'll simply have to move forward, for the time being, with the assumption that anything is possible. The only thing we can say for sure is that there are no plans for a financial entity called "2CUL." We were gratified to see that collaboration on Blacklight development, plans to coordinate clean-up of existing data, and formalization of 2CUL collection development models are all moving forward.
- The agenda for our next in-person meeting at Cornell on August 22-23 will be almost entirely devoted to review of the TSI Phase 1 working group reports; posing questions and teasing out issues and ideas from those reports; and determining next steps and possible scenarios for carrying out TSI Phase 2. We are planning to meet all afternoon on Thursday, all morning on Friday, and leaving the plan for Friday afternoon flexible until we see where the first two sessions have gotten us. We will either continue our discussion that afternoon, take some type to decompress and lick wounds, or some combination of the two. Jim will work with Laurie Stevens on scheduling. Xin has arranged for bus transportation and hotel arrangements to be booked by Cornell Library Administration, pending formalization of the new 2CUL travel guidelines.