day 2 steering committee

standard and interoperability
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warc standardization - by April 2008 the standard should have been approved and ready for publication

open source warc tools - phase 1 - requirements and architecture, construction of libwarc library (alpha), validator and iterator tools - Hanzo and IA, TCO to review work as it progresses, Nov to March, 30,000 euros

licensing and copyright
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discussions about copyright ownership, types of open source licence, code maintenance - particularly in respect to a commercial member being funded by IIPC for development eg hanzo

NLA Funding proposal to support preservation working group report
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need to invoice BnF asap for funds for "report on web archiving preservation: issues and recommendations" project - Gildas will send exact reference and person to send invoice to. Funding is attached to draft report deliverable due 1 December for funding timing but it is noted in the SC minutes that the final report will not be submitted for review to the technical committee until March 2008

smart crawler
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- phase 1 completed (deduplication)
- phase 2 in progress (prioritisation) to be completed by December 8
- phase 3 (adaptive re-visiting module) tbc March 2008

Heritrix interface documentation - IA and CDL - Nov to end of Feb someone from CDL will be doing the work - call to IIPC members to nominate reviewers

smart crawler use cases - call to members to contribute scenarios for crawling

Meeting Schedule
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Next General assembly will be held in Canberra starting Monday 7th April, along with technical committee meeting, working group meetings, steering committee meeting, training opportunities, information day?. Communications Officer, Technical officer, NLA and chair will have initial discussions about options then members will be polled for their requirements and expectations for the general assembly and associated workshops. Then a programme and scheduling will be developed.

Abbie has already informed members of the location and date. NLA will follow up asap with any information that might be helpful for estimating travel and accommodation costs.

Technical committee will schedule a meeting January (?) probably in Europe IA, NZ, NLA members can participate via teleconference.

technical committee and some working groups will meet after IWAW/ECDL mid-september in Denmark. SC and preservation working group are better located next to iPRES. No dates for 2008 ipres but location is UK. Great if they decide to schedule 22 September then all would be happy.

Canada tentatively offered to host general assembly in 2009

Communications
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Membership
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