DCMI Agents Working Group

Chair:	John Roberts Archives New Zealand
Chair:	Dr. Andrew Wilson Arts and Humanities Data Service
Status:	This working group is currently active.
Last Updated:	2005-12-05
Established:	1998-11-04
Rechartered:	2003-12-05
Charter:	Develop functional requirements for describing agents. Identify and evaluate existing conventions for agent description against the functional requirements. Develop a recommendation for an agent element set. Provide input to the DCMI Architecture working group concerning the linking of resource description records to agent description records.

News and Announcements

Agents WG Meeting at DC2006

The Agents WG will be meeting at DC2006 in Manzanillo, Mexico. The meeting will be held on Friday 6 October, from 3-5pm.

Madrid Agents WG Meeting Report

2005-12-05, meeting notes from the DC-2005 Agents WG meeting.

Agents WG Status Report now available

2004-10-01, status report now available for review.

Seattle Agents WG Meeting Notes

2004-02-18, meeting notes from the DC2003 Agents WG.

Milestones/Deliverables

Note: Lead editors/authors/volunteers are tentatively listed. An early deliverable of the WG consists of a more formal tasklist, including dated checkpoints and confirmed contributors. The exact set of deliverables may differ from those drafted below.

Scheduled Milestone	Description	Editor/Contact	Status/History
Share and lead discussion of InterParty elements as background thinking on the Agent Core	This is an attempt to leverage the extensive work conducted already by the InterParty project. Information on InterParty can be found here.	Robina Clayphan	Completed per email of 8 October 2003
Develop a brief RDF description for Agents	Based on the abstract architecture model.	Andy Powell	Deferred November 2005
Draft a set of functional requirements for an Agent Core	To be used as basis for discussion and development of the Agent Core specification: current functional requirements draft.	Andrew Wilson	Completed per email of 10 February 2004
Engagement with other Working Groups.	Contact other working groups (eg. Education, Government, Libraries) to ascertain their views on requirements and/or purposes of describing agents.	John Roberts/Andrew Wilson	Due end September 2005. Completed November 2005.
Determine purpose(s) of agent description work	Post to DC-Agents and other identified relevant WG lists seeking further views on the purposes of describing agents.	Andrew Wilson	Due end October 2005. Completed November 2005.
Review previous agent description work	Check through DCMI records and mailing list archives for relevant documents produced by earlier work of the Agents WG.	Tom Baker	Due end of November 2005. Completed October 2005.
Revise functional requirements document	Revise functional requirements document using input from earlier mailing list comments and results of above 3 activities.	Andrew Wilson	Due end of January 2006
Draft Dublin Core Application Profile for describing agents	Develop draft application profile for describing agents based on the revised functional requirements document.	John Roberts/Andrew Wilson	Due mid-May 2006

Open Issues

None.

Forums

Mailing list

To join or leave:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-agents&A=1

Archive:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-AGENTS.html

Background

Temporary Working Definitions

Agent: A person (author, publisher, sculptor, editor, director, etc.)

or a group (organization, corporation, library, orchestra, country, federation, etc.)

or an automaton (weather recording device, software translation program, etc.)

that has a role in the lifecycle of a resource.

Agent Record: A collection of elements describing an agent.

Agent Authority Record: An agent record that includes the particular name that is preferred (considered authoritative) within a particular community (e.g., libraries).

History

Date Constituted: 1998-11-04
Working Group Charter and Home Page
Rechartered: 2000-10-06
Working Group page
The DCMI "Agent Issues" working group (a decendant of an earlier group know simply as "Agents") aims to resolve issues that have arisen from the need to describe actors (persons, groups, or automata) in various events (e.g., creation, revision, publication, transcription, derivation) in the lifecycles of information resources.

Resources

Andy Powell's presentation on "Referencing Related Descriptions", DC-2005 Madrid [PowerPoint, 78Kb]

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