AchExec Web- quorum at 16
- welcome to new members and vice-pres
- [✔] VOTE: agenda approved
- approval of 2005 minutes
- coordination at OUP seems much improved
- ADH website not acted on
- [✔] VOTE: report approved
- reports
- employment (Steve)
- badge programme is good but didn't work this year; need to arrive in advance
- anouncement at opening ceremonies for commitment
- over-abundance of mentees for libraries (lack of mentors)
- ACTION (Steve): employment panel at UIUC
- we need new jobs committee president
- thanks to Steve and committee
- ACTION (Steve): find new members
- [✔] VOTE: report approved
- nominations (Ray)
- ACTION (Chuck) revisit electronic vote
- new members: Neil, Claire, Susan
- Adrian resigned a couple of months before rotating off
- ACTION (Julia) update website
- new committee: Neil, Claire, Susan, Steve, Ray, Lorna
- ACTION (Ray) another non-council member (perhaps Alan Galey?)
- thanks to committee, secretary and treasurer
- [✔] VOTE: report approved
- Humanist (Willard)
- possibility of coming under the umbrella of ADHO
- strange issue of messages just awaiting approval
- desirata for Humanist functionality (like better searching)
- ACTION (Stéfan) consider migration
- employment (Steve)
- membership/journal
- Trish as representative of OUP
- slight decline in institutional subscriptions (consistent with other journals)
- dissemination wider: through consortia, online access in developing countries, etc.
- access to back-issues by membership on horizon
- online trial at conferences, often 3-month
- possibility of alerts for new issues, citations, etc.
- abstracts only available for some years (1997)
- Melissa
- increase registration for non-members?
- ACTION (Melissa): strategies for increasing memberships (lapsed and graduates)
- possibility of non-LLC student memberships
- ACTION (Melissa): flyer with OUP
- ACTION (Melissa): send digital archives of conferences to Stéfan, talking to Edward
- ACTION (Stéfan) posting conferences on ADHO
- change name of conference publication from extended paper to short paper
- [✔] VOTE accept report
- Marilyn's LLC report
- Trish as representative of OUP
- [✔] treasurer's report
- [✔] VOTE accept report
- conference reports
- 2006
- 87 single papers, 11 French, 1 French, 6 panels, acceptance of 62% for papers, 75% for panels
- 220 delegates
- thanks to committee and organizers
- 2008: Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008
- 2006
- outreach
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Ray)
- 100 people from 4 continents
- request for "moral" sponsorship
- possibility of ACH sponsoring video archiving event
- perhaps continue with ACH fellowships
- decision-making process about fellowships initially through ACH, and then Victoria
- ACTION (David) work with Ray on fellowships and video archiving
- [✔] VOTE ACH be (non-financially binded) co-sponsor
- [✔] VOTE ACH 5 tuition spots plus some money available (about $1500) for travel (total about $4000)
- publicity at conference, through Humanist
- possible Winter institute
- ACH bursaries
- 4 applications
- publicized on website, CFP – need to do better, including graduate programmes, posters
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Ray)
- ADHO
- last year's agenda
- selected programme chair (Ray 2007) and conference chair (Susan Hockey)
- multilingualism chair (Elizabeth)
- membership of SDH/SEMI, issues with existing journal (Text Technology)
- revise budget for e-journals (DHQ)
- migration of ACH and ALLC to digitalhumanities site
- publications protocol
- review of audited membership information from OUP
- governance protocol
- review by John of various issues in the document
- [✔] VOTE approve governance protocol
- conference protocol
- review by John of various issues in the document
- ACTION (John) edit 2.3 vice-chair elected from programme committee, change "from" to "by"
- add mention of electronic availability and archiving of abstracts
- ACTION (David) representation on ADHO conference committee
- [✔] VOTE approve conference protocol
- [✔] VOTE John & Chuck continue as ADHO representatives
- thanks to John & Chuck for work, and John as chair
- Steve continues as publications representative
- Peter Lidell continues as multilinguilism and culture
- conference committee: Steve, Melissa, Claire, Susan
- UIUC Conference 2007 http://digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ overview from John
- ACTION (John) send trial account for conference registration system
- ACTION (Lorna) provide feedback to OCS
- should have larger discrepency for non-member registration fees
- Busa prize year
- DHQ report http://digitalhumanities.org/Adho/2006AnnualReport from Julia, inluding memo with LLC http://digitalhumanities.org/view/AchExec/06DhqMemo
- Opportunity for larger role for ADHO in community
- need for coordination of public and private funding agencies, better articulation of needs from community
- ADHO in the best position to do that coordination, need for journalism
- combination of funding internationally: USA, Canada, UK, etc.
- need for ongoing funding (like endowment), not one time-funding
- much discussion about how representative ADHO is to humanities and social sciences
- agreement about need to communication, not sure of form (like sciencemag.org http://sciencemag.org/ site).
- last year's agenda
- [✔] Officers
- [✔] VOTE Chuck continues as treasurer
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