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- Recommendation: Keep the existing tier model through the next few years and not create a new group of users
- Recommendation: ;* MAB supports a give-button if it is done thoughtfully. We need a way to recognize contributors that is not tied to usage. Also, are contributions from societies and agencies are driven by a political or mission statement?*
Reserve Fund Policy
- Link to Reserve Policy
- Scientific Director was not budgeted and we are hoping to fund it using reserve funds for 2013. Ideally we will get to a reserve of $300,000 by CY17.
- Two policies using the reserve fund: operating funds for emergencies; and, development funds to support special projects, like scientific directors.
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- SHARE proposal will require separate funding. If arXiv is potential partner/contributor to SHARE , the program will need to add metadata like unique ID, funder code, etc. How will this impact the overall IT framework?
- CHORUS and SHARE are proposals but agencies are not entertaining proposals. Not like an RFP. Both will proceed. SHARE will move forward and is looking for funding. Time frame: refining whitepaper to think about prototype within the next year. What would it take to search across all of these repositories?
- A consistent use of metadata that will hopefully 'touch' the repositories
- Data management is still a key question
- The quality of the arXiv download statistics are good and are trusted. What are some additional statistics that we can provide?
- Downloads for articles that receive a lot of 'attention' (is this number of hits? Link outs? Popular press?)
- Submission uploads based on IP
- Total # of downloads/institution highlighted in the banner
- Initiatives such as OpenAIRE are developing subject classification and categorization systems for their open access repositories; can arXiv contribute to these open source initiatives?
- RecommendationRecommendation: explore usage statistics in greater detail with our members
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- Face to face meeting will help us work in our subgroups. Group composition is good particularly the international perspectives, as is helpful as it gives us a holistic view
- May be difficult to keep this group focused because of the diversity of our issues and portfolio. How can we work together to set priorities and maintain focus?
- Shall we consider developing special interest groups that involve non-MAB? May help us reach out to the institutional base.
- There is a need to increase the number of early-career scientists on SAB, and also among moderators_._
- There is an expectation that the MAB can help drive discussions about the future, about how we're going to be different in five years (arXiv.org). SAB is more interested in sustainability rather than innovation right now (due to pressing functional requirements in support of important processes such as moderation). Perhaps the MAB is a place of innovation, and the Scientific Director will collaborate to lead this innovation.
- SAB will form a small group to help with IT prioritization.
- Recommendation: We'll need to factor in the technical development needs of our members too so it needs to involve some MAB/SAB collaboration. There needs to be a negotiation process.
- What is the role of a MAB chair? Facilitator, organizer, conduit, help in the communication between SAB and MAB, particularly in transition year.
- Recommendation: We will revisit the idea of appointing a chair in our next meeting.
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