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We began talking about a possible face-to-face JSMIN meeting in summer or fall of this year, though it will be important for this agenda to be driven by concrete goals that support "better overall quality, productivity, improvement of services, and/or fruitful innovation" – as per the charge for the Alliance. The idea arose that whatever funding is available might be better spent in support of functional area activity – for instance, the Code4Lib Unconference that Cornell plans to host in early August, an e-resource assessment summit, or a more broadly collaborative linked data meeting at a third-party location (e.
g. Harvard).
Columbia and Cornell will share intel on upcoming individual meetings with Backstage, especially regarding shelf-ready options – at Columbia on 3/11 and at the Metadata Matters seminar in Philadelphia late this month (which Adam is attending and at which Naun is speaking).
Jim will distill alliance goals for 2016 from this discussion and record them in our Basecamp instance for eventual updating and tracking.
will be important to prepare an agenda that is clearly worth the cost if we do so. We might also consider a joint presentation as part of such an agenda. On the other hand, it might be more useful to fund a working group meeting with more