Charge Background Charge

The charge to the group is to organize a review and evaluation of current practice and develop a set of Principles and Guidelines for the Digital Representation of Cultural Heritage and for the Management of Its Documentation. [...] The development and use of information and technical standards and the management of intellectual property issues that run through all of these steps in the process, will also need to be addressed. [...] The Working Group will determine how best to organize the review of issues and considerations that will determine a set of guiding principles, how to organize research into current practices (including any other work parallel to that of this Group), how to develop the criteria for evaluating practice and in what forms to publish the Group's reports and guidelines. [...] It will also ensure that its progress informs, and is informed by, the work of the "Building Blocks" Humanities Informatics project conducted under the auspices of the Steering Committee for Computer Science and the Humanities. [...] Considerations in creating the agenda for the work of this group include: • overall approaches: strategies and decisions to be made about how we work with material resources (to be informed by reports from the "Building Blocks" discipline-based committees); • the range of audiences and uses to be included (and researched); • the kinds of products this group should itself produce or assist others i.