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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Janet Carleton| Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives | OHIO University Libraries | Alden
333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 | </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">carleton@ohio.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://media.library.ohio.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">https://media.library.ohio.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | she/her/hers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Rachel Senese via Society of American Archivists <Mail@ConnectedCommunity.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 19, 2023 2:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carleton, Janet (she/her) <carleton@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SAA metadata] : DLF CAWG August Discussion: Digitization Vendors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join the DLF AIG Cost Assessment Working Group for a discussion session on digitization vendors. We will be discussing the results
of the... -posted to the "Metadata & Digital Object Section" community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please join the DLF AIG Cost Assessment Working Group for a discussion session on digitization vendors. We will be discussing the results of the recent Vendor Registry subgroup's
survey on digitization vendors, followed by breakout sessions focused on experiences with digitization equipment vendors, still image digitization service providers, and audiovisual digitization service providers. Whether you're about to start your first digitization
project or have years of working with digitization vendors under your belt we invite you to come share your knowledge and learn from the experience of others! </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124;background:white">We welcome representatives from vendor organizations to attend but request that your attendance be limited to the general discussion sessions and vendor breakout
room to encourage free and open discussion.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> A vendor breakout room will provide an opportunity for vendors and attendees to connect, ask/answer any questions, and discuss working relationships.
This breakout room will not be a forum for any sales pitches.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This session will not be recorded but a summary of the discussions will be released.. Please register for this discussion so we can gather information to help guide the discussion
and provide login information :<a href="https://forms.gle/6MbpN7p9WeG6wrUC9." title="https://forms.gle/6MbpN7p9WeG6wrUC9.">forms.gle/6MbpN7p9WeG6wrUC9.</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Meeting Information:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Monday August 14, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST. Login information will be provided to registrants.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About the DLG AIG Cost Assessment Working Group:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">A subgroup of the Assessment Interest Group, the Cost Working group is an ideal place for
<b>digital lab practitioners</b> and <b>managerial staff </b>alike to come together to talk about practical ways to assess the resources necessary to plan and execute successful digitization projects.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The AIG Cost Group focuses on identifying tools that may serve a wide range of digitization efforts. Our current goal is to analyze the data collected
through multiple small surveys in 2021 and 2022 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">and use it
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">to inform new initiatives.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">Beyond the surveys, we continue to support the project subgroups that developed from members' shared interests and work on various resources and
issues. The current subgroups are insourcing vs. outsourcing, a registry for vendors, assessing scans per linear feet, best practices, and cost estimation.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the group chairs: Rachel Senese (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:rsenese@gsu.edu" title="mailto:rsenese@gsu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">rsenese@gsu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)
or Julia Simic (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:Jsimic@uoregon.edu" title="mailto:Jsimic@uoregon.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">Jsimic@uoregon.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">).</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel Senese</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">AIG Cost Assessment Working Group Co-Coordinator</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Projects Coordinator</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Georgia State University</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:rsenese@gsu.edu" title="mailto:rsenese@gsu.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">rsenese@gsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">And </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Julia Simic</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">AIG Cost Assessment Working Group Co-Coordinator</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship, Digital Production and Preservation</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">University of Oregon Libraries</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jsimic@uoregon.edu" title="mailto:jsimic@uoregon.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">jsimic@uoregon.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rachel Senese<br>
Digital Library Coordinator<br>
Georgia State University<br>
Atlanta GA<br>
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