Alexandria Advisory Board

The Alexandria Digital Library Advisory Board, chaired by Jeff Dozier, held its fourth meeting on October 6th, 1997. ADL Staff gave presentations of the status of their research and development of the ADL operational system. The board gave the following recommendations regarding the focus of ADL research efforts:

1. There is a pressing need in the digital library community to develop tools for building collections. This would be an excellent focus for future ADL research.

2. The focus of ADL should remain on our core competence, geospatial data and information.

1. Content Plans and Rationalization - what needs to be loaded based upon the needs of our users. ADL should spend more time working closely with specific user groups.

2. ADL should review its commitments to ADL partners -- Joy Colucci was asked to send status of deliverables for partners to board members.

3. Address Intellectual Property Issue - fencing off the ADL server from non-UCSB users is not adequate; access must be addressed at a data-set level.

4. There is a need for more focus on ADL users. They are not sufficiently in the loop. There is a need to address questions such as -- who are they; what do they want; have theirs needs been met?

The board also discussed issues related to the Interlib proposal for DLI2 and made several suggestions about how ADL should proceed.

• The Composition of the Advisory Board