2. Participants
• Greg Hess, Lead Dean
• Jacque Wernimont, Grant PI
• Sam Kome, R&D Librarian
• Allegra Gonzalez, Digital Initiatives Librarian
• Working group:
Lori Ann Ferrell (CGU)
Steven Casper (KGI)
Rachel Mayeri (HMC)
Audrey Bilger (CMC)
Alex Juhasz (Pitzer)
Richard McKirahan (Pomona)
3. 10,000 foot Timeline
Began with planning grant Fall 2012-Sept 2013
Will submit grant request to Mellon Sept 2013
Funding of CCDH January 2014
CCDH operational on grant Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
2nd grant request Sept 2016
CCDH operational on grant #2 Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
CCDH becomes part of operating budget Jan 2020
4. Planning Grant Process
Fall Spring
• 7C conversations • January retreat: refine
• Regional conversations scope
• finish infrastructure • write grant to fund
surveys center
• site visits • establish firm
• identify a design team collaborative
infrastructure
• scope the center and
collaborations • work with design team
5. Planning Grant: Major Milestones
Education
DH Site Visits (MIT, UCLA, USC, Arts Center, Oxy) Nov
Attend THATCampSoCaland DH2012 Sept
Infrastructure & expertise surveys Nov
Input from Faculty/Staff (iterative) Dec
Conversations with Instructional Tech re: classrooms Nov
Leadership (building capacity and infrastructure)
Faculty/Staff education phase 1: Blog Sept
Faculty/Staff education phase 2: local meetings Dec (3/4 complete)
Southland DH collaboration discussions Ongoing: monthly
Cooperative model (proposed) Early Jan
Formalize other cooperative efforts April
(Vibrant Data Labs, MIT)
Scoping
Planning retreat Jan 17 & 18
Center identity, scope, staffing Jan
Organizational model (proposed) Dec
6. Planning Grant:Additional Milestones
Architect/Design interviews Nov
Design team selected Dec
Pilot project begins Jan
Design sketches March
Draft of grant and budget April
Revised grant request June
Mellon discussions May and July
Pilot project in viewable format Aug
Final grant request submitted Sept
7. Decisions to be made: planning grant
work flow
During the planning grant phase, what does the
decision making process look like?
- Grant PI transition to Director?
- Recommendations to ADC?
- how many options?
- all decisions or subset?
- how much lead time?
- Vetted by Presidents as well?
- Feedback loop to ensure viability of
changes?
8. Decisions: Organizational Structure
Staffing
currently proposing:
Faculty Director
Library-based Assistant Director
Programmer/Web Developer
Project Manager
Grant administration/admin assistant
Clinic director?
Organizational structure(s)
Faculty director – home college
other staff – library? CUC?
9. Proposals re: Identity
What kind of center is CCDH?
Interdisciplinary and collaborative
Regional hub
2 themes: Material/Digital & Vibrant Data
Incubator
What kind of work will it foster?
Experimental/exploratory work that addresses the themes and includes UG
Research clusters
What will be the relationship between projects and CCDH in future?
can partner if have external funding
not agreeing to perpetual hosting
What is the nature of the collaboration between CCDH and CDI, GIS lab, Special
Collections?
minimum: CDI repository for CCDH works
more: tool sharing, metadata, OA, preservation expertise, GIS/Mapping expertise,
access to documents/ephemera, area expertise
10. Decisions to be made:
Space/Aesthetics
• 2nd floor Honnold-Mudd space identified by
library ADs
• Interviewed 4 design/architecture teams, have
narrowed to two: Gensler and a team of faculty
from Arts Center
• Design budget and goals?
Hinweis der Redaktion
MITH: 4 Faculty director positions, 1 R&D, 3 admin, 4 tech support staff (12 FTE total)Emory (Mellon funded): library staff PI, two executive level positions – one library, one faculty, 3 grad fellows (6 total)5 Colleges (Mellon): Faculty director (1:1 load), Steering committeeTAMU (Mellon): Faculty director (project based)TriCo: (Mellon): Faculty director (2:1) and staff assistant directorNY6 (Mellon): Faculty project director and lead PI (full leave), 3 co-investigators and project directors (faculty – all 1:1 load)
MITH: 4 Faculty director positions, 1 R&D, 3 admin, 4 tech support staff (12 FTE total)Emory (Mellon funded): library staff PI, two executive level positions – one library, one faculty, 3 grad fellows (6 total)5 Colleges (Mellon): Faculty director (1:1 load), Steering committeeTAMU (Mellon): Faculty director (project based)TriCo: (Mellon): Faculty director (2:1) and staff assistant directorNY6 (Mellon): Faculty project director and lead PI (full leave), 3 co-investigators and project directors (faculty – all 1:1 load)