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Overview of activities in Working groups, Interest groups and Committees
General discussion platform - DC-General
Administrative metadataSpecial Interest Groups
Agents
Architecture
Citation
Collection Description
Education
Government
Libraries
Registry
Standards
Tools
Type
User GuideBusinessOther Activities
Collaboratory
Moving Pictures
Multiple LanguagesDC-2001Standing Committees
TutorialsDirectorate
This report on the status of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative covers the activities that have taken place in the
months May and June of 2001.
The first part of the report describes the activities related
to the development of the new organizational structure for
DCMI. The second part of the report contains an overview of the
work in the various working groups, interest groups and
committees in the reporting period.
In the last two months further steps have been taken towards the new organizational model that was described in the previous Status Report.
A number of steps have been taken towards the further development of the four levels of governance (DCMI Directorate, DCMI Board of Trustees, DCMI Advisory Board, and DCMI Usage Board).
First of all, the DCMI Usage Board has had its first meeting on 21-22 May 2001 in Dublin, Ohio. This group currently consists of 9 members, 6 of whom attended the meeting. The report of the meeting, the resulting recommendations and some process documents will become available in August.
The Directorate is currently defining the charter and background documentation for the Board of Trustees, in preparation for contacts with potential members of this Board. At the same time, the Directorate is drafting a charter for the new Advisory Board that will be discussed with the Advisory Committee.
DC-General
Mailing list subscriptions: 840 on 29 June 2001 (+19 compared to 30 March 2001)
DC-General remains the general platform for discussions in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. In the last two months, there have been a number of discussions about specific aspects of the usage of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and Qualifiers, as well as announcements of meetings, conferences and publications.
Administrative metadata
Chair: Leif Andresen, Denmark
Mailing list subscriptions: 33 (+3)
Deliverable status:
In the last two months, no activities have taken place. Leif Andresen and Jytte Hansen intend to draft a first version of an updated A-Core and a time schedule for further work in August 2001.
Chairs: José Borbinha, Portugal; John Kunze, US
Mailing list subscriptions: 81 (+3)
Deliverable status: None
There was virtually no activity in DC-Agents since the
previous report. While interest continues, the chairs haven't
had time to push the agenda.
The charter is included here.
In the near term, the chair(s) will suggest taking up items 1 and 2 with the membership and drafting a first set of deliverables since rechartering of this group.
Architecture
Chairs: Sigge Lundberg, Sweden; Dan Brickley, UK
Mailing list subscriptions: 87 (+2)
Deliverable status:
After the Usage Board meeting in May, a second round of discussion took place around the Namespace Policy on the basis of the draft of 9 March 2001. In the third week of June, the issues were further discussed at the Tools workshop in Osnabrück. The latest Working Draft (version 29 June 2001) reflects the consensus that was reached. This document will enter review by the Advisory Committee and some external experts in July 2001. After consensus in this review, it will be released as Proposed Recommendation for public comment in August 2001. After this, it will become a DCMI Recommendation.
A second version of the deliverable 'Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF' dated 3 May 2001 was announced on the mailing list on 18 May 2001. A new version is foreseen for early July 2001. The document will then enter review by the Advisory Committee and externally by some W3C groups (e.g. the RDF Interest Group) in July 2001. After consensus in this review, it will be released as Proposed Recommendation for public comment in August 2001. The public comment period will be sufficiently long for implementers to implement and test and will remain open to at least the Tokyo workshop. If there is sufficient implementer experience, the specification will become a DCMI Recommendation.
The Web site and further work plan of the WG are under revision.
Chair: Ann Apps, UK
Mailing list subscriptions: 55 (+6)
Deliverable status:
Ann Apps has kindly agreed to chair this Working Group that is in the process of being re-opened.
The intention to re-open the working group was announced to DC-General on 11 May 2001. A proposed charter was proposed to the DC-Citation mailing list on 21 May 2001. After some brief discussion this was agreed by the group - there were no real objections apart from suggestions to widen the scope. This charter was submitted to the Advisory Committee on 11 June 2001 as a formal proposal to reopen the working group.
Details of the meeting held in Bath on 15 March 2001 were e-mailed to the Citation working group along with the intention to write a formal proposal for a recommendation on best practice. Both the minutes of the Bath meeting and some comments on the minutes are available on the Web at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/dc-citation-wg/meetings/2001-03-15.html and http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/DC/bathcomments.html
Agreement to reopen the working group, with its proposed charter and an agreed Chair, is required from the Advisory Committee and the Directorate. The working group web pages on the DCMI web site require considerable updating.
It is planned to write a document proposing a recommendation
on best practice for encoding bibliographic citations of
journal articles in DC.
Collection Description
Chair: Andy Powell, UK
Mailing list subscriptions: 17 (+2)
Deliverable status: None
Andy is drafting the charter for the group. In July 2001, he
will announce this to DC-General. After that he will draft a
draft work plan and tasklist and discuss these on the WG
mailing list.
Education
Chairs: Jon Mason, Australia; Stuart Sutton, US
Mailing list subscriptions: 213 (+6) (25% of the total
number of DC subscribers)
Deliverable status:
In its meeting on May 21-22 in Dublin, Ohio, the Usage Board took action on the proposal of the Education Working Group. Three DCMI Recommendations have resulted from this action:
It needs to be noted that, while the "Recommendation Status" for all three recommendations is "Domain-Specific", the recommendation does not preclude use of these recommendations in other domains.
A meeting involving participants of the LEEE LTSC LOM WG,
IMS, GEM, EdNA and DCMI Architecture WG to take forward the RDF
work in positioning the LOM & DCMI for interoperability has
not taken place yet. The DCMI Directorate is involved to move
this forward.
Government
Chair: Andrew Wilson, Australia; Palle Aagaard,
Denmark
Mailing list subscriptions: 112 (+7)
Deliverable status:
A major activity in the last months for the Government
Working Group was its involvement in the organization of the
conference "Managing Information Resources for e-Government:
Metadata" in Brussels on 21-22 June 2001, together with the IDA
(Interchange of Data between Administrations) Program of the
European Commission and the ParlML project at the European
Parliament. The objective of the conference was "to explore the
possibility of standardizing the use of Metadata across
European Governments and Parliaments, and to identify the
resources, both technical and non-technical, that would be
required to support this activity." Representatives of national
e-government programs in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, the
UK, Hungary, Canada, Australia and New Zealand attended the
conference. One of the practical results of the conference is a
timetable for a proposal to the Usage Board with extensions of
Dublin Core for government use, to be submitted in September
2001. The report of the conference and copies of the
presentations will be made available from the IDA Web
site.
Two consultation documents have been circulated to the mailing list around the end of April 2001:
The Survey report of several implementations of Dublin Core
in government was published on 29 June 2001.
Libraries
Chair: Rebecca Guenther, US
Mailing list subscriptions: 257 (+9) (31% of DC
subscribers)
Deliverable status:
At the end of April, the results of a survey on the use of Dublin Core in libraries were published on the mailing list. The purpose of the questionnaire was to help achieve some of the DC Libraries Working Group's objectives for 2001, including: (1) to collect and share examples of Dublin Core use in libraries and (2) to stimulate discussion that will feed into the process of drafting an application profile for the use of Dublin Core in libraries.
Early in May, Rebecca announced a meeting of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's DC-Libraries Working Group in conjunction with the meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations on 22 August 2001 in Boston, Mass., USA, to discuss a library application profile for use with Dublin Core metadata.
A small group comprising members of the DC-Libraries WG is working on a draft to discuss at this meeting. This will include recommendations on the use of Dublin Core elements and qualifiers in library applications. It is expected that a final draft for a library application profile will be prepared by the end of 2001.
A set of mapping tables between the Dublin Core and UNIMARC mapping tables, prepared in the National Library of Russia, have been posted for comment.
Registry
Chair: Rachel Heery, UK
Mailing list subscriptions: 64 (+3)
Deliverable status:
The outline of purpose of the DCMI Registry has been submitted on 17 May 2001 for discussion by the Usage Board.
In order to produce a Registry 'alpha' version, the Registry WG needs to provide:
In order to produce an 'alpha' version of the test registry, DC Registry WG need to obtain:
Standards
Chair: Leif Andresen, Denmark
Mailing list subscriptions: 59 (+2)
Deliverable status: None
After the decision in NISO to approve Z39.85 and forward it
to the American National Standards Institute, the group will
restart in July 2001.
Tools
Chair: Roland Schwänzl, Germany
Mailing list subscriptions: 43
A meeting of the Tools Working Group took place in
Osnabrück on 20-22 June 2001. There were thirteen
participants who gave 10 presentations. The presentations and a
summary report are available from the Tools WG Web pages.
Another face-to-face meeting might take place next year.
Type
Chair: Ann Apps, UK
Mailing list subscriptions: 62 (+1)
Deliverable status:
There has been no discussion on the e-mail list. The Web page has been updated to include a history of developments during the existence of the working group. The status of the deliverables on the web page has been updated, in particular to indicate completion of the DCMI Type Vocabulary that was ratified by DCMI on 11 July 2000. The domain type lists survey has been updated.
A conference call is being planned between a small number of interested people including OCLC personnel working on the FAST project, but no date has been yet fixed. This would be a first step towards progressing use of the resource types identified by OCLC, maybe with some modification, as the DCT2 sub-type list. A report to the email list would be expected following this conference call.
The conference call has not yet taken place because of problems of trying to fix a date within everyone's busy schedules and holidays.
The Domain Type List has been updated. Possibly this will be an on-going activity as it could be a useful resource. It is not currently on the DCMI web site because it is work in progress.
The DCT2-Sub-Type List may be superseded by the OCLC type
list. 'DCT2-Sub-Type List' is a working name. The working
group, and/or DCMI, will need to rename it appropriately. It is
not currently on the DC web site because it is work in
progress.
User Guide
Chair: Diane Hillmann, US
Mailing list subscriptions: 48 (-4)
Deliverable status:
The Working Draft of "Using Dublin Core" was made a DCMI recommendation on 1 June 2001. Various small problems have been referred to DCMI Web team (links, titles, examples, etc.).
After this achievement, the next few months will probably be quiet. In the fall of 2001, Diane intends to initiate a review of examples, in the hope of adding more.
The group will keep an eye on DC-Architecture, for the
specification of qualified Dublin Core in RDF. When it is
issued, Diane would like to use it as a trigger for a review of
examples, and add some RDF ones at that stage.
Business
Chair: Mary Alice Ball, US
Mailing list subscriptions: 55 (+10)
Activity on the mailing list has been limited to requests
for information and responses on businesses using Dublin Core.
No meetings or discussions are planned at this point. Mary
Alice would like to initiate discussion about identifying
specific identifiers or qualifiers that pertain to business, as
well as examine ways in which businesses have extended DC, e.g.
in application profiles.
Collaboratory
Chair: Roland Schwänzl, Germany
Mailing list subscriptions: 22 (+3)
No activity to be reported for May and June 2001.
Moving Pictures
Chair: Simon Pockley, Australia
Mailing list subscriptions: 23
The objectives of this group is to provide a forum to:
The group was activated but only small response so far
within a small mailing list. The intention is to promote the
group through the DC General list sometime in July - hopefully
when there is a burning issue.
Multiple Languages
Chairs: Tom Baker, Germany; José Borbinha,
Portugal
Mailing list subscriptions: 99 (+3)
No activity to be reported for May and June 2001.
Conference chair: Jun Adachi, Japan
Program chairs: Shigeo Sugimoto, Japan; Tom Baker,
Germany
The Call of Papers (original closing date 20 June 2001) has been extended to 30 June 2001. Some 20 regular and 20 short papers have been received. In July, the review process will take place.
In July, further details about the workshop, the conference program, and the registration procedure will be published at the Conference Web site.
Activity leader: Erik Jul, US
Erik is further developing the tutorial plan with the
organization committee in Japan.
A face-to-face meeting between Stu Weibel and Makx Dekkers
has taken place on 20-22 May 2001 in Dublin, Ohio, where the
main topics were the future funding model and the outline
charter and supporting documentation for the Board of
Trustees.
Stu attended meetings in Melbourne, Australia and
Wellington, New Zealand concerning the organization of a DCMI
regional affiliate, DC-ANZ. Makx attended the first day of the
Tools workshop and chaired one of the sessions in the European
e-Government meeting.
Presentations (Stu):
Presentations (Makx):
Other Work in Progress:
During May and June, two EC conference calls have taken
place, discussing operational and strategic issues.
Some members of the Advisory Committee have expressed worry
about the role of this platform in the transition period. The
Directorate has confirmed that until there is an alternative
decision structure in the new organizational model, the
Advisory Committee remains the primary decision body in DCMI,
and this will be apparent in a number of deliverables and other
documents that will go before the Advisory Committee for review
and ratification in the coming months.
The Usage Board consists currently of 9 members. It met face-to-face on 21-22 May 2001 at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. They spent roughly half of the first meeting discussing and approving policy, procedure, principle, and mission documentation and half discussing and approving some proposals for new elements and qualifiers. They are in the process of populating the Web page at http://dublincore.org/groups/usage/ with links to relevant documentation, archives, and meeting deliverables. The JISCMAIL list for discussion within the Usage Board is closed to subscription and posting by outsiders, but the mail archives at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-usage.html are openly accessible on the Web
The Usage Board tentatively plans to meet next on 23-24
October during the pre-conference workshops before DC-2001 in
Tokyo.
On 1 May 2001, the DCMI Update Newsletter has been revived. This will now regularly be published with various announcements, news briefs and other items of interest to the DCMI community.
New versions of the DCMI Web site were brought online regularly with announcements of events and documents and updated versions of Working Group Web pages. Sections were added on the home page for Public Comment (giving information on past, current and future Public Comment periods) and for Deliverables with a list and status of DCMI deliverables.
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