DCMI Registry Working Group Page

DCMI Registry Working Group

Title:	DCMI Registry Working Group
Chair:	Rachel Heery, lisrmh@ukoln.ac.uk
Chair:	Harry Wagner, wagnerh@oclc.org
Status:	This working group is currently active.
Established:	1999-12-15
Charter:	The DCMI Registry Working Group aims to establish a metadata registry to support the activity of the DCMI. Exploration of the role of a DCMI registry is becoming a priority task in order to manage Dublin Core elements and qualifiers as they are used and adapted for an increasingly diverse set of applications. The registry is intended to fulfill various purposes such as To manage DCMI namespace(s) To provide an authoritative source of information regarding DCMI for humans and software To facilitate take up of DCMI To manage change and evolution of the DCMI vocabulary The WG will identify requirements for a DCMI registry, scope the registry, recommend policy and process and implement a solution. The intention is to have a phased delivery, starting with basic functionality and content.

DCMI Registry Community meeting at DC-2007 in Singapore

At the meeting in Singapore, reports were presented by several groups including Jane Hunter's DART project, The European Library, the NSDL Registry and the IEMSR project. We also reported back from the Open Forum on Metadata Registries, held in New York in summer 2007. This was followed by a discussion that focused on identifying similar design choices made by these independent efforts, and the potential for further joint work in this area. As a result of this discussion, it was decided that a Task Group should be proposed in order to fulfil the following aims:

Develop a set of functional requirements common to current registries, based on the experience and findings of current registry implementers and stakeholders. As part of this, investigate the dissemination functionality considered desirable in a registry, and appropriate use cases associated with this functionality;
Draft a set of use cases for inter-registry interactions, taking into consideration interoperability concerns (reporting, notification, versioning, etc.) between registries and other applications sharing related goals;
Draft a set of functional requirements related to the inter-registry transfer language or languages, including interoperability concerns related to sharing information between registries and with other applications such as vocabulary management applications that share related aims.

Milestones/Deliverables [top]

Scheduled Milestone	Description	Editor/Contact	Status/History
Purpose and Scope of DCMI Registry (2001-05-11)	Outline of purpose of registry: to include requirements, scoping and functions of registry	Rachel Heery	In review
Circulate draft November 2000	Policy and process: to recommend qualifier approval process and criteria for approval	Tom Baker
Prototype DC Registry	Prototype DC registry: to implement phase 1 registry according to recommendations from above activity	Harry Wagner	In process

Open Issues [top]

A list of as yet unresolved issues, or those ideas or problems that are still under discussion.

DCMI Namespace Policy - Draft version for discussion purposes

Forums [top]

Decisions are made by obtaining a consensus from a broad range of individuals and organizations. Listed here are some of the places where discussions take place:

Working Group mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-registry.html

Background [top]

Information on discussions and decisions that were used to support the creation of this working group.

The aim is to produce a Phase 1 implementation by end of January 2000.

Production of these deliverables will be an iterative process, there has already been considerable background work within the DCMI community, and a prototype is available at http://eor.dublincore.org

The DCMI working group will act as a focus for activity regarding metadata registries within the DCMI. It will disseminate information about its work to DC-General and the DC-Advisory Committee. The DCMI Registry working group will collaborate with:

History [top]

Information on when this working group was constituted, dates of group meetings and results from those meetings, etc.

Date Constituted: 1999-12-15

Related Work [top]

Links to groups, reports, software, projects, etc. that would be of interest to the participants of this working group.

Resources [top]

Information, standards and reports that were used to support the decisions and discussions in this working group.

The Registry WG wil liaise as appropriate with registry activity outside the DCMI. In particular with:

Metadata associated with this resource: http://dublincore.org/groups/registry/index2.shtml.rdf

Copyright © 1995-2009 DCMI All Rights Reserved. DCMI liability, trademark/service mark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Your interactions with this site are in accordance with our privacy statements. Please feel free to contact us for any questions, comments or media inquiries.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited is registered in Singapore as a Company limited by Guarantee under registration number 200823602C and hosted by the National Library Board, Singapore.
The DCMI Web site and Conference Paper Repository are hosted by the National Library of Korea.
The DCMI Registry is hosted by the Research Center for Knowledge Communities at the University Of Tsukuba, Japan.


Global navigation options:	Home	Metadata Basics	DCMI Specifications	Community and Events	About Us