We celebrated a project milestone at work this week. At yesterday’s meeting of Academic Board, the Vice-Chancellor tabled “Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: choices for the University of Melbourne.”
This consultation paper outlines:
- changes in society and scholarly practice that affect how we value and manage our scholarly information
- the history, size and resourcing of our current scholarly information environment
- some questions and choices we now face about what to do with scholarly information and technologies in the next 10 years
You can download the consultation paper from the main Information Futures Commission web site — though, of course, it’s actually stored in the University’s ePrints repository.
There is also a ‘commentable’ version of the paper available on the Information Futures blog — to start reading it, click the Consultation Paper link in the “Pages” section of the right-hand menu. We look forward to seeing your comments on the blog pages :-)
We are also issuing a public call for submissions in response to the consultation paper.
The paper is the result of six weeks of research, debate and word-wrangling by the project team and several of our colleagues and advisors. Probably about 20 people contributed to it, though we’ve only mentioned a handful by name in the document itself — we restricted the credits list to those who actually wrote chunks of prose, checked our spelling, hunted down an elusive reference or pointed out the orang utans we hadn’t noticed sitting in the middle of the room.
Next week the project team will have lunch together, to celebrate the fact that we delivered a good-quality product on time. Yay team :-)
Tags: consultation, goals, milestone, Information Futures Commission, project management
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