Tom Cotton’s 8109

Last meeting achieved so much that this catch-up was really quite task oriented.

The POC leader Sarah is ill today so thankyou to her back-up, Pru, for stepping in and helped push the ideas about discovery onwards.

Two interesting broad questions emerged today:

1. What do we do with our list of suggested resources? Do we

• Simply have a list of resources for our Information officers?
• Create an alternative edna repository of computer-reviewed online education resources publicly available?

2. How is this discovery approach affected by copyright?

• What is exactly under copyright in a collection?
• Who owns copyright in a public collection? Individual contributors or the organisation maintaining the collection?
• What constitutes a breach of copyright (beyond the terms of use) when collecting meta-data?

On the first question of our final list of resources - we referred back to the vision: we are improving the collection process by quantity and quality. We are not innovating how these resources are used. However we would be foolish to ignore capturing the potential opportunities or not be informed by them.

On the second question of copyright - we simply captured these risks in the risk management document (POC 1 lesson learnt).

The ‘to do’ list:

1. Sarah - develop the Use-Case for Show and Tell 1: compare & contrast collection management now with POC2 approach
2. Nellie - map the tags between del.icio.us and edna collections
3. Nick - break down & start the technical work required for creating authoritative users and tags.
4. Tom/Sarah/Nellie - start translating the collection policy into succinct criteria
5. Tom - research extracting meta-data possibilities.
6. All - ideas for the potential for the evaluated resources.