The SUL Digital Projects Planning Committee (DPPC) was established in 2002 as the successor to the Digitization Services Planning Committee (DSPC). The DSPC was the successor to the Digitization Discussion Group formed in March 1997. The DPPC has two elected officers: a chair and chair-elect. The chair serves a two-year term and is responsible for making quarterly reports and submitting recommendations and other documents of the Committee to the directors. He/she also sets agendas and conducts meetings and telephone conferences as needed; compiles meeting minutes for distribution to members and posting on the Committee web pages; and distributes, collects, and sends to FCLA for processing, applications for Florida Heritage Project funding (if available).

SUL library staff engaged in any aspect of digital projects may be appointed to the Committee. Each library should have a primary institutional representative. The Committee works closely with the Special Collections Task Force, the ETD Subcommittee, the Public and Technical Services Planning Committees, and other SUL curators of collections of born-digital government and university documents.

The primary foci of the Committee are:

• development and maintenance of the PALMM collections to support public and university access to the resources of the SUL special collections
• exploration of procedures and policies related to university-produced digital content, including ETDs, electronic records, and faculty research
• creation and sustenance of partnerships with non-SUL content providers when these collections complement or augment PALMM services to the people of Florida

The work of the Committee includes:

• creation of multiyear plans for development and archiving of SUL retrospectively digitized and born-digital resources
• gathering and sharing information on new digital library programs and developing standards
• adoption of technical standards to support continued access to and preservation of digital resources
• development of technical strategies to support access to new formats and maintain access to or migrate declining formats as needed
• development of strategies to support SUL staff training needs with regard to creation, management, and preservation of digital resources
• maintaining active communications through a listserv and regular telephone conferences
• coordination of technical strategies with materials selection to insure that access to selected materials can be supported
• annual review of its multiyear projections for the development of technologies and projects
• continuing efforts to promote and publicize the PALMM projects and services to the K-20 communities and the people of Florida in general

The Committee recommends:

• strategies for new joint SUL/FCLA digital access and archiving projects
• strategies for development of and/or changes to current projects
• technical standards to insure continued quality of digital projects
• projects to support SUL staff training and development
• equipment and software needs to support digital projects