• quorum at 16
  • welcome to new members and vice-pres
  • [✔] VOTE: agenda approved
  • approval of 2005 minutes
    • coordination at OUP seems much improved
    • ADH website not acted on
    • [✔] VOTE: report approved
  • reports
    • employment (Steve)
      • badge programme is good but didn't work this year; need to arrive in advance
      • anouncement at opening ceremonies for commitment
      • over-abundance of mentees for libraries (lack of mentors)
      • ACTION (Steve): employment panel at UIUC
      • we need new jobs committee president
      • thanks to Steve and committee
      • ACTION (Steve): find new members
      • [✔] VOTE: report approved
    • nominations (Ray)
      • ACTION (Chuck) revisit electronic vote
      • new members: Neil, Claire, Susan
      • Adrian resigned a couple of months before rotating off
      • ACTION (Julia) update website
      • new committee: Neil, Claire, Susan, Steve, Ray, Lorna
      • ACTION (Ray) another non-council member (perhaps Alan Galey?)
      • thanks to committee, secretary and treasurer
      • [✔] VOTE: report approved
    • Humanist (Willard)
      • possibility of coming under the umbrella of ADHO
      • strange issue of messages just awaiting approval
      • desirata for Humanist functionality (like better searching)
      • ACTION (Stéfan) consider migration
  • membership/journal
    • Trish as representative of OUP
      • slight decline in institutional subscriptions (consistent with other journals)
      • dissemination wider: through consortia, online access in developing countries, etc.
      • access to back-issues by membership on horizon
      • online trial at conferences, often 3-month
      • possibility of alerts for new issues, citations, etc.
      • abstracts only available for some years (1997)
    • Melissa
      • increase registration for non-members?
      • ACTION (Melissa): strategies for increasing memberships (lapsed and graduates)
      • possibility of non-LLC student memberships
      • ACTION (Melissa): flyer with OUP
      • ACTION (Melissa): send digital archives of conferences to Stéfan, talking to Edward
      • ACTION (Stéfan) posting conferences on ADHO
      • change name of conference publication from extended paper to short paper
      • [✔] VOTE accept report
    • Marilyn's LLC report
  • [✔] treasurer's report
    • [✔] VOTE accept report
  • conference reports
    • 2006
      • 87 single papers, 11 French, 1 French, 6 panels, acceptance of 62% for papers, 75% for panels
      • 220 delegates
      • thanks to committee and organizers
    • 2008: Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008
  • outreach
    • Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Ray)
      • 100 people from 4 continents
      • request for "moral" sponsorship
      • possibility of ACH sponsoring video archiving event
      • perhaps continue with ACH fellowships
      • decision-making process about fellowships initially through ACH, and then Victoria
      • ACTION (David) work with Ray on fellowships and video archiving
      • [✔] VOTE ACH be (non-financially binded) co-sponsor
      • [✔] VOTE ACH 5 tuition spots plus some money available (about $1500) for travel (total about $4000)
      • publicity at conference, through Humanist
      • possible Winter institute
    • ACH bursaries
      • 4 applications
      • publicized on website, CFP – need to do better, including graduate programmes, posters
  • ADHO
    • last year's agenda
      • selected programme chair (Ray 2007) and conference chair (Susan Hockey)
      • multilingualism chair (Elizabeth)
      • membership of SDH/SEMI, issues with existing journal (Text Technology)
      • revise budget for e-journals (DHQ)
      • migration of ACH and ALLC to digitalhumanities site
      • publications protocol
      • review of audited membership information from OUP
    • governance protocol
      • review by John of various issues in the document
      • [✔] VOTE approve governance protocol
    • conference protocol
      • review by John of various issues in the document
      • ACTION (John) edit 2.3 vice-chair elected from programme committee, change "from" to "by"
      • add mention of electronic availability and archiving of abstracts
      • ACTION (David) representation on ADHO conference committee
      • [✔] VOTE approve conference protocol
    • [✔] VOTE John & Chuck continue as ADHO representatives
    • thanks to John & Chuck for work, and John as chair
    • Steve continues as publications representative
    • Peter Lidell continues as multilinguilism and culture
    • conference committee: Steve, Melissa, Claire, Susan
    • UIUC Conference 2007 http://digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ overview from John
      • ACTION (John) send trial account for conference registration system
      • ACTION (Lorna) provide feedback to OCS
      • should have larger discrepency for non-member registration fees
      • Busa prize year
    • DHQ report http://digitalhumanities.org/Adho/2006AnnualReport from Julia, inluding memo with LLC http://digitalhumanities.org06DhqMemo
    • Opportunity for larger role for ADHO in community
      • need for coordination of public and private funding agencies, better articulation of needs from community
      • ADHO in the best position to do that coordination, need for journalism
      • combination of funding internationally: USA, Canada, UK, etc.
      • need for ongoing funding (like endowment), not one time-funding
      • much discussion about how representative ADHO is to humanities and social sciences
      • agreement about need to communication, not sure of form (like sciencemag.org http://sciencemag.org/ site).
  • [✔] Officers
    • [✔] VOTE Chuck continues as treasurer