VIVA ad hoc Technical Issues Committee on Content
Linking and Management for Electronic Serials and other Digital Materials
Minutes for January 22, 2003
Lynchburg, VA
Present: Elaine Day (Averett, Chair), Glenn Bunton (ODU), Linda Carder (Lynchburg),
Mary Ann Chappell (JMU), Deanna Chavez (RMU), Liz Kent (Sweet Briar), Leslie
O'Brien (VT), Jamie Redwine (Hollins).
1) E-serials management survey. Leslie distributed the final survey results,
with 33 responses, a slight increase from November. It is important to preserve
the raw data for VIVA records. Members are encouraged to send questions or suggestions
about the survey analysis to Leslie.
2) Reference linking/access integration survey. Mary Ann handed out a draft
of the survey questions, which were discussed at length..
3) Report to VIVA Steering Committee. Serious writing should start now. Drafts
of the sections will be posted on the committee's Blackboard course. A draft
report will be presented to the Steering Committee on March 6, and may be released
later in the spring for comments by VIVA at large.
- Some issues raised warrant recommendations for further study, such as portals,
authentication, and collaboration.
- The draft report will include recommendations; they should also be discussed
at the educational program and put in final report form in June.
- A question about whether or not to include library and campus portals in
our report was raised. The portal issue was not part of our charge, but has
become a hot topic in the past few months, and is felt to be too important
to ignore. We will include a question about portals in the survey, but indicate
in our report that a portal is one of many options supported by content linking
technologies and warranting study from public services, instructional, and
systems perspectives.
- E-Serials management and reference linking are core to our charge.
- The committee will focus on opportunities for consortia.
- We will delineate issues of presentation and underlying technology
- XML is an important standard with training implications for VIVA libraries
4) Liz reported that the educational program will be held at the conference
center at Sweet Briar. Possible May dates were discussed. We tentatively agreed
on Friday, May 30.
5) The next meeting will be held at Sweet Briar College on February 12.
6) Action items:
- Submit latest drafts of report sections to Jamie for posting to Blackboard.
- Send comments on the report sections to the authors.
- Mary Ann and Elaine will continue to draft questions for the second survey
and send them to Glenn.
- Send revisions of 2-3 e-serials survey questions to Mary Ann and Elaine
for inclusion in second survey.
- Katherine will continue to build the bibliography.
- Elaine will gather full text database information to determine scope of
aggregated titles for VIVA, VICULA, and direct subscriptions.
Leslie O'Brien
Virginia Tech