King's committee zone project
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Committee zone addresses a common issue across the higher education sector - how can vital, but extensive committee records, be effectively managed, stored, and made available?
The project will create an institutional and publicly available repository of College committee records, hosted on the web. The project will explore key technical questions; address practical issues about creating and uploading records and answer essential questions about managing security and confidentiality.
The project will create an institutional and publicly available repository of College committee records, hosted on the web. The project will explore key technical questions; address practical issues about creating and uploading records and answer essential questions about managing security and confidentiality.
Project outcomes
The project will serve as a case study for the HE sector. Achievements will include:
The project will have a direct and positive impact within King's College London. It will:
The project promotes the progressive use of communications technologies, harnessing the web as a tool for publishing corporate information in a useful and useable way.
- A fully tested workflow for publishing committee records, transferable to any HEI
- A report on key themes and issues including repository software, formats, metadata and search tools
- A case study on preservation options along with a specification of needs
- A searchable online archive of core committee records
The project will have a direct and positive impact within King's College London. It will:
- Contribute to the ready availability of key management data helping to strengthen executive decision-making and reduce the need to keep duplicate sets of committee records
- Support institutional Freedom of Information compliance
- Reduce redundancy in record keeping and in printing out
- Allow for the systematic maintenance and storage of a permanent committee archive
The project promotes the progressive use of communications technologies, harnessing the web as a tool for publishing corporate information in a useful and useable way.
