Publications

Publications in the context of DIG-UM can range from expressions of opinion by individual authors to statements with substantial political significance. They are in a 3-class system using the following procedures. The  Digitization Board assists by its assessment of which class a publication should be assigned to.

1. Draft publications with policy relevance to ErUM communities. These publications are submitted to the Overview Board and thus to all eight ErUM committees. The deadline for comments is two weeks. Expert evaluation is requested (and explicitly not a grassroots process of all involved communities and their members). The committee chairs may delegate the commenting to individual experts or expert groups of the respective community. Already for the planning phase of such publications, it is recommended to involve experts from all communities in the development process at an early stage.
2. Publication drafts that may exhibit Class 1 characteristics are assessed by a written statement from the Digitization Board. The publication draft and statement will be provided to the overview board with a two-week deadline.
3. Publication drafts without obvious committee policy impact, as a working paper or an expression of opinion by individual authors, will be evaluated by the Digitization Board and approved for publication.

The exact wording of authorship and the reference to the goals of the ErUM Committees will be agreed upon in each case (e.g., Class 1 publications as "On behalf of the ErUM Committees").