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+title: 'New Structures'
+date: '2007-06-06T09:36:50-04:00'
+permalink: /new-structures/
+tags:
+    - conferences
+    - mediacommons
+    - publishing
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+
+Finishing up the notes from yesterday’s meeting:
+
+Session 3: New Structures
+
+Maria Bonn, Director, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan; Phil Pochoda, Director, University of Michigan Press
+
+SPO: publishing unit located within library; used to say “electronic publishing,” but “print wants to be electronic, and electronic wants to be print”
+
+Michigan Digital Publishing Initiative — library and press at core, but including campus IT and media infrastructure
+
+“digital culture books” — an attempt to put complementary print and online books out there — communication and new media studies, and politics — http://www.digitalculture.org/
+
+collaboration aimed as “institutional backfire” at preventing apocalyptic reorganization proposed by now-departed administrator
+
+\_The Digital Library Biography\_
+
+press currently only receives 10% of expenses from university budget; must obtain other 90% from revenues
+
+problems of production for digital texts
+
+really interesting questions about the processes of editing cross-platform (print/digital) texts…
+
+what is it we want digital texts to be? digital versions of print texts, with some clicking? or evolving, changing, developing texts? or both? preferably, both — some evolution and ongoing discussion, with some stability, too
+
+how to shape discussion, though; neither press nor library has much experience with managing online communities — not many folks do
+
+most texts will be published in CMS (thus dynamic) at first, and later transitioned to more stable archival format
+
+Mark Saunders, Assistant Director/Manager, Rotunda (electronic imprint), University of Virginia Press
+
+case study — *Clotel* (William Wells Brown novel) — http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/clotel/
+
+Mike Furlough, Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications, Penn State (formerly of UVa Press)
+
+Mellon-supported initiative — d-pubs — dpubs.libraries.psu.edu  
+— journals; conference proceedings; monograph series in Romance Studies (romancestudies.psu.edu)
+