Orbis Cascade Alliance staff: Jodi Allison-Bunnell

Alliance consortium office: orbiscas@uoregon.edu

Northwest Digital Archives Committee and Contacts

Established

July 2007

Type of group

Standing Committee and Steering Team, see Committee Structure

Charge
  • Establish Committee
  • Steering Team Meetings
  • Create working groups and charges
  • Communicate regularly and effectively with NWDA members
  • Sponsor annual Committee Meeting
  • Recommend NWDA cost distribution structure for FY09+
  • Investigate new tools (e.g. Archivist's toolkit, Oxygen, Archon) for encoding and managing EAD finding aids and other metadata about archival materials
  • Work with Digital Program Working Group, NWDA Program Manager, and Digital Services Program Manager to asses the institutional and users' needs for a region-wide program to offer access to digitized archival materials
  • Continue conversations at state, regional, and national level about cross-search and/or harvesting capabilities across state and regional consortia and the future of regional and national search and harvesting
Charge for the Chair The Chair is responsible for guiding the Committee and Steering Team to accomplish their charge. Activities include communicating with Council and consortium staff, setting meeting agendas, encouraging participation by all members, enlisting the assistance of consortium staff, producing reports, and ensuring that minutes are taken, approved, and posted on the Alliance Web site.
Charge for the Steering Team Members The Steering Team is charged with actively pursuing the work of the committee. Members of the Steering Team seek compromises and recommend policies that benefit all members of the consortium. In the fulfillment of this role, the Steering Team is expected to communicate with the full committee on a continuous and intentional basis.

Committee Member Responsibilities

Committee members represent an entire member institution. Thus each representative is expected to gather input from all relevant divisions, branches, autonomous libraries, etc. and speak for the member institution. Committee members serve as primary contact for the institution in matters of membership, finances, and other business.

Steering Team

The Northwest Digital Archives Program Manager serves in an ex officio and non-voting capacity on the NWDA Steering Team

Working Groups

Digital Program Working Group
Usability Design Working Group
 Standards Working Group

Committee and Steering Team chair: Linda Morton-Keithley

List of Members

Last updated: November 5, 2007

Member institution Representative
Alaska State Library James
 Simard
 james.simard@alaska.gov
 (907) 465-2926
Central Oregon Community College Michele
 DeSilva mdesilva@cocc.edu
 (541) 383-7565
Central Washington University Dieter Ullrich ullrichd@cwu.edu (509) 963-1717
Eastern Washington State Historical Society Rose Krause rosek@northwestmuseum.org (509) 363-5313
Eastern Washington University Charles Mutschler cmutschler@ewu.edu (509) 359-2254
Gonzaga University David Kingma kingma@gonzaga.edu (509) 323-3814
Idaho State Historical Society Linda Morton-Keithley linda.morton-keithley@ishs.idaho.gov (208) 514-2320
Lane Community College Elizabeth Uhlig uhlige@lanecc.edu (541) 463-5466
Lewis & Clark College Jeremy Skinner skinner@lclark.edu (503) 768-7279
Montana Historical Society Jodie Foley jofoley@mt.gov (406) 444-7482
Oregon Health & Science University Karen Petersen peterska@ohsu.edu (503) 494-3239
Oregon Historical Society Megan Friedel meganf@ohs.org (503) 306-5257
Oregon Institute of Technology Anne Hiller-Clark anne.hillerclark@oit.edu (541) 885-1686
Oregon State University Larry Landis Larry.Landis@oregonstate.edu (541) 737-0540
Pacific Lutheran University Kerstin Ringdahl ringdak@plu.edu (253) 535-7586
Portland Community College Jeff Ring jeff.ring@pcc.edu (503) 977-4631
Portland State University Tom Larsen larsent@pdx.edu (503) 725-8179
Seattle Municipal Archives Anne Frantilla anne.frantilla@Seattle.Gov (206) 233-7807
Seattle Museum of History and Industry Carolyn Marr carolyn.marr@seattlehistory.org (206) 324-1126
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Anne Foster ffalf@uaf.edu (907) 474-5590
University of Idaho Nathan Bender nbender@uidaho.edu (208) 885-5813
University of Montana Donna McCrea donna.mccrea@umontana.edu (406) 243-4403
University of Oregon Linda Long llong@uoregon.edu (541) 346-1906
University of Washington Carla Rickerson crick@u.washington.edu (206) 685-4480
Washington State Historical Society Fred Poyner fpoyner@wshs.wa.gov (253) 798-5911
Washington State University Trevor Bond tjbond@wsu.edu (509) 335-6693
Western Oregon University Camila Gabaldon gabaldoc@wou.edu (503) 838-8653
Western Washington University Tony Kurtz tony.kurtz@wwu.edu (360) 650-3124
Whitman College Michael Paulus paulusmj@whitman.edu (509) 526-4731
Whitworth University Janet Hauck jhauck@whitworth.edu (509) 777-4751
Willamette University Mary McKay mmckay@willamette.edu (503) 370-6764

Steering Team

The NWDA Steering Team wrestles at the wheel of our ship (click on image for larger size)
L to R: Tony Kurtz, Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Anne Frantilla, Janet Hauck,
Linda Morton-Keithley, Larry Landis, Trevor Bond, Mary McKay.

Member institution Representative term expires
Idaho State Historical Society Linda Morton-Keithley linda.morton-keithley@ishs.idaho.gov (208) 514-2320 7-1-2009
Oregon State University Larry Landis Larry.Landis@oregonstate.edu (541) 737-0540 7-1-2008
Seattle Municipal Archives Anne Frantilla anne.frantilla@Seattle.Gov (206) 233-7807 7-1-2009
Washington State University Trevor Bond tjbond@wsu.edu (509) 335-6693 7-1-2009
Western Washington University Tony Kurtz tony.kurtz@wwu.edu (360) 650-3124 7-1-2008
Whitworth University Janet Hauck jhauck@whitworth.edu (509) 777-4751 7-1-2008
Willamette University Mary McKay mmckay@willamette.edu (503) 370-6764 7-1-2009