Report 2003-05-07

Present: Willard McCarty, Andrew Wareham, Gabriel Bodard, David Rollason, Alan Piper

1. PLANNING

The meeting received

• a paper from Alan Piper outlining the academic requirements of the project, and setting out detailed proposals for work to take place on a series of sample leaves of the manuscript, viz. fols. 15rv, 36rv, 66rv, 71rv.
• a paper from Willard McCarty and Andrew Wareham setting out objectives, questions to be asked, attributes of entities, and a possible framework for the commentary to be embodied in the edition.

Both papers are filed with the minutes.

2. DISSEMINATION

The following dissemination strategies were proposed:

• project to visit Cologne to compare notes with work taking place in the context of the Dombibliothek
• project to communicate with humanities computing projects, and to make presentations to humanities computing conferences.
• David Rollason to draft a form of ‘press release’ for purposes of publicising the project
• Gabriel Bodard to develop the project’s web-site, including papers, reports, samples of the edition etc.

3. PARTNERS

• Andrew Wareham to make contact with the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England project.
• David Rollason to contact David Dumville about obtaining both the text of the original core of the Liber Vitae and also his commentary on the problem-names.
• The issue of whether it was desirable to have an independent chair of management committee was discussed. The names of Michael Gerbers, David Bates, and David Smith were mentioned as possible candidates.
• It was decided that it was too early to respond to the EU questionnaire on best practice in digitisation, but Willard McCarty would look at the material and ask to be kept informed.

4. PUBLICATION

• Thought would need to be given to the documentation of technical issues, so that all decisions made would be transparent.
• David and Alan would need to sketch the content and format of the introductory material at an early stage.
• Discussion with British Library publications might focus both on hybrid publication and on the possibility of an additional popular publication.