Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences Project
Launch Event : June 3, 2008
CRKN Executive Director, Deb deBruijn, welcomes guests to the DCI launch.
Deb deBruijn, opens proceedings to the DCI launch.
University of Ottawa VP Research and CRKN Board Member, Dr. Mona Nemer, speaks on behalf of the project's contact institution, and the other 66 participating universities.
Dr. Mona Nemer details some of the social sciences and humanities digital content newly-acquired under the DCI Project.
President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, calls the DCI Project "essential to Canada’s ongoing success in the knowledge-based economy".
Mr. Brent Sauder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Research Technology & Innovation Division of the Province of British Columbia's Ministry of Advanced Education.
Brent Sauder addresses a full house in the Golden Jubilee Room at the University of British Columbia's Irving K Barber Learning Centre.
Dr. Noreen Golfman, President of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, tells the audience that the Federation "believe that building innovation on a foundation of the humanities and social sciences will help in the formation of richer and more fulsome ideas, and foster deeper, more meaningful and more sustainable innovation that will further the goals of a modern society."
Dr. Ronald Rensink engages the audience in his research on Visual Analytics; an innovation that promises value for all Canadian researchers, and that stands on the foundation of a critical mass of digital content like that accessed through the DCI Project.
Gibson Library Connections' Bob Gibson (second from right, front row) with a few of the members of his Canadian Publishers Collection, (moving from Bob's right) the presidents of McGill-Queen's University Press (Philip Cercone), University of Toronto Press (John Yates) and University of British Columbia Press (Peter Milroy).
Distinguished guests, Dr. Mona Nemer, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, Mr. Brent Sauder, Dr.
Noreen Golfman and Dr. Ron Rensink.
BC Electronic Library Network's Anita Cocchia.
Library staff from a number of CRKN's member institutions were on hand for the event.
Athabasca University's Steve Schafer chats with the University of Victoria's Joanne Henning.
Bob Gibson with McGill-Queen's University Press's Philip Cercone.
University College of the Fraser Valley's Kim Isaac.
Congress 2008 Academic Convenor, UBC professor of English Dr. Richard Cavell, speaks with representatives from Carleton University's Congress 2009 planning team.
Leonora Crema of UBC with Michael Burris, Executive Director of the BCLA.
UBC librarian and member of CRKN's Negotiations Resource Team, Joy Kirchner, with Micromedia/ ProQuest's Mike Baida.
JSTOR's Jason Phillips.
Michael Eberle-Sinatra, President of Synergies.
Ingram Digital Group's Linda Vendryes chats with CRKN's Director of Content Programs, Yves Jobin.