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Meeting with Jeannette Kopac, former CBC archivist, current Program Director of the Center for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus. Francis and Kedrick in attendance:

This may be of direct interest to our society. Please check it out and see if you think the DOCAM is important to contact regarding DPAC.

 

I'd like to open up a discussion to our directors and advisors regarding the term "digital poetry". Later this week we'll move on to the next term, "archive". There's also room to continue and discuss the what / how / who implied by "of Canada". I'd like to reference a recent email Lionel sent to me. In it, he poses a certain question about the definition of our society in a very succinct way. Lionel says: "Of course it also depends whether DPAC means (1) An archive of Canadian digital poetry, or

Good news on several fronts. First is that we have now recieved our Certificate of Incorporation, dated February 12, 2009, and may proceed with several pressing details.I will meet with Francis next week to set up our bank account, and discuss avenues for structure and funding around the archives. I'll blog the results so that we can begin a discussion forum, particularly as this concerns initial projects and opertional funding.

    We are at the Center for Digital Media home of the Masters of Digital Media Program see http://www.mdm.gnwc.ca Jim Andrews' presentation:

It's my pleasure to announce that Jim Andrews has agreed to join our advisory board. Jim's work in digital poetry is stellar. If you have not done so, please check out his site at www.vispo.com and his work will speak for itself. On that note, Jim is giving a presentation on his work at the Center for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus of UBC tomorrow (I didn't know sooner, sorry), that's Thursday, February 12 at 10:30 AM. I'll blog an entry on it for those who cannot make it.

Following are some proposed date fields for digital material.  How many (or what others) are used depends largely on who the entries are for--who will use it and for what purpose, etc.  

The site was uploaded January 12. We're using drupal. It should provide an adequate working environment for collaboration and it will scale well to be able to handle a considerable load...