>>  Recognized.  Second?

>> I second the motion.

>> -- Merlin Haas

>>> On Jul 14, 2012 5:04 AM, "Donald Dale Milne" <<mailto:dondmi...@att.net>
>>> don**dmi...@att.net <dondmi...@att.net>> wrote:

>>>     I MOVE that the Board adopt the technical requirements
>>> recommendations in the attached committee report of 2/18/2012, to create
>>> creator table(s) within the GCD database.  This shall comprise the 72 items
>>> under DATA STORAGE, and also the 10 items under Non-comics work (on pages
>>> 4-5).

>>>     I will leave for FUTURE motions any consideration of the following
>>> questions raised by the committee report:
>>> 1. Determining criteria for the GCD_Official_Name. To begin with, we
>>> could use their name in the current Who's Who, if available.
>>> 2. Determining a GCD Language Of Record. A single language should be
>>> chosen, so that names known to be written in multiple languages can be
>>> properly represented.
>>> 3. Determining whether we want to add a Latinized transcription of a
>>> name, on the display side, to aid in pronunciation or searching.
>>> 4. Determining whether and how the GCD might sponsor creator
>>> questionnaires. Much of the Who's Who is driven by what the creators
>>> reported to Jerry in the questionnaires he sent out. This might also be a
>>> good source for us to use.
>>> 5. Determining whether and how the GCD might create and maintain a
>>> bibliography database, comprised of entries of sources of information on
>>> creators. Some of this data could be seeded from the Source data we will
>>> record for various information noted above.
>>> 6. Determining rules about what would and would not be allowed for
>>> Sample_Scans of art.

>>> - Don Milne

>>> On 6/25/2012 2:27 PM, Lionel English wrote:

>>> Tomorrow is Jerry Bails' birthday, which reminded me that this is still
>>> an outstanding item.  Anyone want to go over this committee's report and
>>> make motions to adopt any of them?
>>> Also, I think we had discussed doing a few things with <
>>> http://www.bailsprojects.com/**>http://www.bailsprojects.com/ to make
>>> it clearer that the fate of the site is no longer in question.  I.e.
>>> updating the wording on the front and about pages to indicate that the GCD
>>> has custody of the project and is/will be maintaining the site, and filing
>>> a tech bug to implement an error tracker for the Who's Who.  Anyone want to
>>> tackle a motion for any of those items?

>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Lionel English <<mailto:
>>> lio...@beanmar.net>li**o...@beanmar.net <lio...@beanmar.net> <mailto:
>>> <mailto:lionel@**beanmar.net <lio...@beanmar.net>>lio...@beanmar.net**>>
>>> wrote:

>>>     Reminder:  I don't believe we've voted to adopt any of this
>>>     committee's recommendations yet.
>>>     Would anyone care to review the recommendations and then create a
>>>     motion or a series of motions dealing with said recommendations? It
>>> may be more prudent to make separate motions for each
>>>     recommendation, so that we can fast-track areas on which there is
>>>     little disagreement/question, and spend more time on areas that
>>>     require it.

>>>     On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Donald Dale Milne
>>>     <<mailto:dondmi...@att.net>don**dmi...@att.net <dondmi...@att.net><mailto:
>>> <mailto:dondmilne@att.**net <dondmi...@att.net>>dondmi...@att.net>>
>>> wrote:

>>>          The Who's Who integration committee did not propose any
>>>         changes to the attached document when I submitted it as our
>>>         final report several weeks ago.  Therefore, I'm now submitting
>>>         it to the Board for adoption.  Taking a cue from Tony, I won't
>>>         make a motion to adopt yet, so we can all look it over.
>>>          Several of you were active in the discussions that led to
>>>         this, so if anyone else has questions, we can respond.

>>>            In addition to the data fields to record in our proposed
>>>         creator table(s), as noted in the report, I believe the Board
>>>         will separately need to address the following questions
>>>         regarding integrating the Who's Who:
>>>         1. Determining criteria for the GCD_Official_Name. To begin
>>>         with, we could use their name in the current Who's Who, if
>>>         available.
>>>         2. Determining a GCD Language Of Record. A single language
>>>         should be chosen, so that names known to be written in
>>>         multiple languages can be properly represented.
>>>         3. Determining whether we want to add a Latinized
>>>         transcription of a name, on the display side, to aid in
>>>         pronunciation or searching.
>>>         4. Determining whether and how the GCD might sponsor creator
>>>         questionnaires. Much of the Who's Who is driven by what the
>>>         creators reported to Jerry in the questionnaires he sent out.
>>>         This might also be a good source for us to use.
>>>         5. Determining whether and how the GCD might create and
>>>         maintain a bibliography database, comprised of entries of
>>>         sources of information on creators. Some of this data could be
>>>         seeded from the Source data we will record for various
>>>         information noted above.
>>>         6. Determining rules about what would and would not be allowed
>>>         for Sample_Scans of art.

>>>         - Don Milne
>>>         (thanking Tony for reminding me that I needed to submit this)

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