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Weighted Voting Models for the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention
(2009)
  • Julia Lovett, University of Rhode Island
Abstract
In March 2011, the HathiTrust Digital Library partner institutions will meet for a Constitutional Convention (CC). At this meeting, the partners will either develop a new governance model for HathiTrust or articulate a set of questions to frame a post‐Convention discussion of a new governance model. Questions might include: What should the governing boards be, and how should they be constituted? Which institutions should have representative power, and how many representatives should there be per institution? Should HathiTrust have a new host institution and, if so, what criteria should be used to select a new host institution? These decisions will have a large impact on the future of HathiTrust, and should be arrived at through a method that accurately reflects varying levels of institutional investment in the project.
Keywords
  • digital libraries,
  • voting models,
  • digital library governance
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Julia Lovett. "Weighted Voting Models for the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention" (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/julia_lovett/11/