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Agents Working Group

Name: Agents Working Group
Type: Working Group
Status: Inactive Finished
Charter: Goals of the working group were to develop a commentary which sets out the rationale and purpose of an Agent Element Set; develop a Recommendation for an Agent Element Set; propose qualifiers for the Creator, Contributor and Publisher (CCP) element of the DCMES; and to provide input to the Architecture Working Group concerning a recommended mechanism for linking the CCP elements to Agent records.
Moderator/Chair: John Roberts
Andrew Wilson
Established: 1998-11-04

Mailing list archive

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=DC-AGENTS

1998-2000

Charter

  1. Review RFC 2413 and propose appropriate corrections and clarifications. The working group should review RFC 2413 definitions for the elements CREATOR, CONTRIBUTOR and PUBLISHER, and propose any corrections and clarifications for a revision of RFC 2413. The resulting proposal should include proposed rewording of the definitions and the reasoning to support the change, as well as important counter arguments that emerge from the mailing list discussions. All such recommendations should be made with the objective of enhancing clarity while minimizing impact on existing applications. Working group members should avoid proposing changes without clear evidence that such changes will correct errors or improve the understandability previously agreed upon Dublin Core semantics. This task is of the highest priority and should be completed within 4 weeks of establishing the working group.

  2. Recommend qualifier semantics for elements covered by the working group. Working groups will solicit from implementers recommendations concerning qualifier semantics for CREATOR, CONTRIBUTOR and PUBLISHER that have been found to be useful in existing applications, and judged to be potentially useful for a broad range of Dublin Core applications (and hence, important to promote interoperability). These recommendations should be consolidated, discussed on the list, and integrated into a syntax-independent prose recommendation. Working groups should attempt to identify qualifier semantics (from existing and proposed applications) that might have general usefulness for Dublin Core applications.

Milestones and deliverables

2000-2005

Charter

  1. Develop a commentary which sets out the rationale and purpose of an agent record and an agent element set.
  2. Develop a Recommendation for an agent element set, possibly to include agent element qualifiers.
  3. Propose qualifiers for the Creator, Contributor and Publisher (the CCP) elements of the Dublin Core metadata element set. This activity is completely independent of the agent element set.
  4. Provide input to the DCMI Architecture working group concerning a recommended mechanism for linking the CCP elements to agent records.

Milestones and deliverables