From jmfarmer@students.wisc.edu Mon Oct 19 09:29:29 1998 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:25:31 -0500 From: "J. Michael Farmer" To: alap@macc.wisc.edu, yandell@cs.wisc.edu, cnkierga@facstaff.wisc.edu Subject: Notes from 10/15 Meeting Brian, Lou, & Cleo: Here are the notes from this week's meeting. Feel free to send me revisions and I'll get a clean copy back to you. Mike Electronic Theses and Dissertations Committee 14 October 1998 Notes Present: Cleo Kiergaard-Sorenson, Lou Pitschmann, Jordan Lee, Mike Farmer, Brian Yandell, Nolan Pope, Chuck DeMets, Peter Gorman Absent: Maggie Brandenberg, Rick Nordheim, Jeanne Boston, Millard Susman Leaving: Joe Cutter Need additional committee member in humanities. Will talk to Nick Cahill (Art History) 1. Approval of Minutes Minutes were approved for the 30 June and 15 September meetings 2. Workflow Peter Gorman distributed the URL, username and password for the test site The rebuilding of the program continues. Student interest: SGML submission by student in Spanish literature. Still need a few more students to volunteer. 3. Guides 3 D's: Millard's draft was distributed for comments Risks & Benefits: Brian's draft was distributed for comments. Add items on: Searchable dissertations. Some limits on attachments. Acceptable formats. Jordan's FAQ. Brian will revise R&B and distribute Dissertation Guide: Chuck DeMets will take over on this. 4. Copyright Seminar 7 Oct. 1998. Jordan Lee attended. Notes from seminar were distributed. Add section on copyright to Risks & Benefits Q: Can we restrict access to PART of a dissertation? A: Difficult. Brief discussion of possible workarounds (i.e., link to other data sets, etc.) 5. UMI Dissertations Publishing Lou shared his conversation with Bill Savage of UMI. UMI has 95.000 theses available online New subscription plan for institutions to have access to electronic dissertations from UMI It was noted that UMI owns digital rights to all dissertations published by UMI since 1988 Q: Does this conflict with the student's digital rights? Restricted access to dissertations possible through UMI Q: Will the UW/students get a financial break if we submit dissertations to UMI in electronic format? Q: Does Virginia Tech send dissertations to UMI in electronic format? Q: If someone else (i.e., a journal) already owns the copyright to a part of a dissertation, can the copyright be signed over to UMI as per their standard agreement? There does not seem to be a copy of the UW's contract with UMI available. Do we have a valid contract with UMI? Why UMI? Centralized access to research Bill Savage has expressed a willingness to visit UW and meet with the committee Looking to schedule him on 18 November. Will email committee about availability at this time. 6. U of Michigan & SGML/XML in Word Processors Currently available in Word Perfect, FrameMaker (SGML, XML forthcoming). U of Michigan going separate way from UMI and NDLTD. Next Meeting: 18 November ??? ____________________________________________________ J. Michael Farmer, U of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of East Asian Lang & Lit http://sit.wisc.edu/~jmfarmer