University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

24 members in attendance

1. Welcome (Susan Schreibman)
2. Local Report (Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen)
   • 205 registrants
   • every continent represented except for South America and Antarctica
   • No major problems to report
   • Housekeeping: book of abstracts online [ http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf ]; bag lost in pub on Wednesday evening.
   • Student residences key return: leave the keys on the kitchen table
   • Excursions: will have separate pick-ups at the student dorms and at the Radisson
3. Report on the Executive Meeting (Susan)
   • New board members introduced
   • Mid-year Skype call - we will do this again in 2008-2009
   • Major outcome from the meeting: brainstorming for new projects, and things to do to increase interest and participation in the ACH
4. Finance Report (Chuck)
   • Balance of $44,000
   • Recent income distribution: just under $27K
     • $15,450 expenditures
     • £5,950 expected income
   • The ACH has yet to spend more than it takes in
5. Publications (Ray)
   • ADHO Publications Committee
     • LLC, DHQ, Society for Digital Humanities journal
     • Humanist: thriving for 21 years
     • Two monograph series [Ray: titles?]
   • Purpose of the Committee: build relationships
     • facilitate publication needs not currently met
     • ADHO website - web master
     • Managing abstracts and website
     • Shared conference support infrastructure from year to year, and shared infrastructure for the various publications
   • Issues of peer review to be discussed this year
6. DHQ (John Walsh)
   • New issue released on Thursday, June 26
   • Infrastructure changes over the past year
     • from Open CMS to Cocoon: smooth transition
     • modifications to the DHQ schema
     • new issue: improvements for bookmarking, sharing, and a new toolbar (wordlists, etc.)
     • This year: commenting features, integrated blogging into journal
   • Several special issues are ready to go
     • Significantly more special issues vs. regular contributions: how to deal with this
   • Technical Assistant at Indiana (paid by ACH & IUB)
   • DHQ has some oddities in the documentation
     • inconsistent formatting, some other problems
     • D. Hoover will email some suggestions/requests on improvements to Stefan
       
   • Important issues for DHQ to address
     • issues of promotion & tenure
     • has a standard peer review process
       • Only electronic journals are called to explain their peer review process.
         
       • DHQ editors need to be willing to write letters of support for authors published in the journal
         
     • Issue: Some base the quality of a journal on its rejection rate. DHQ has a low rejection rate, but a process of working with authors to improve papers
       • suggestion: count each review prior to final submission as a rejection?
         
       • special issues don't improve the rejection rate
     • How can DHQ distinguish itself?
       • embedding interactive components, otherwise taking advantage of its online-ness
     • Could also provide viewing/download statistics to show the impact of published articles
       
7. LLC (Stefan, on behalf of Marilyn Deegan)
   • Copy has slowed down (not many contributors this year as opposed to last year), but this is not a concern
   • Focus of the journal: "LLC" rather than "Literary and Linguistic Computing", to open up beyond literature and linguistics.
   • Problems with plagiarism
     • One instance of outright stealing
     • One more subtle case: not clear whether or not it was actually plagiarism, and neither party (the author or the accuser) was completely satisfied by the outcome.
   • There is a need to be more vigilant, and encourage OUP to adopt some plagiarism seeking into their system/workflow
8. Website (Elli)
   • ADHO etc. moved servers successfully
   • ACH website is getting a new design; a designer and students are ready to be hired
   • Needs
     • better CMS
     • the site needs to be: informative, interesting, and attractive
       • more outward facing
       • dynamic content, but not so dynamic that it isn't possible to keep it up-to-date
   • Members should send comments and suggestions on the website to Elli
9. Jobs & Mentoring (Stefan)
   • Jobs Database
     • open to the entire DH community, not only ACH membership
     • a tool for outreach
     • 20-25 jobs posted on the DB since early May
   • Entries come from Humanist; people can also send jobs to Matthew Zimmerman for inclusion in the DB
   • Desirable to have a more open entry system, but not a straight blog mechanism; need to have a timing system so obsolete jobs aren't included.
10. Next Year's Digital Humanities Conference (Neil Fraistat)
    • At the University of Maryland, College Park (near Washington, DC)
    • June 22-25 (Monday through Thursday)
    • Housing will be available both on campus and in hotels near campus and in DC
    • Conference blog is now available: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/
    • Keynote speakers: Lev Manovich and Christine Borgman
    • Organizers would like to draw on regional institutions
      • Government and university libraries and archives
    • Excursions
      • National Mall, with a special tour of the Library of Congress or the National Archives
      • Air & Space Museum in Virginia
    • Banquet: on a boat in Baltimore Harbor, with crab whacking for dinner
      

-- Main.DotPorter - 08 Jul 2008