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DCMI Usage Board

Usage Board Meeting
May 21-22, 2001
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio (USA)

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Agenda

USAGE BOARD - First meeting, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio

Agenda version: Wed May 16 14:58:53 MET DST 2001

Monday, 21 May 2001, 9:00-17:00
Tuesday, 22 May 2001, 9:00-16:30

Will attend:

Thomas Baker
Rebecca Guenther
Diane Hillmann
Traugott Koch
Stuart Sutton
Andy Powell

Cannot attend:

Roland Schwaenzl
Haruki Nagata

DRAFT AGENDA

1) Basic principles and documentation:

a) documentation policy (mailing list, Web archives) - Traugott, Stu, Harry

• Closed mailing list: dcmi-usageboard@dublincore.org
• Closed mailing list has Web archive at: http://lists.dublincore.org?5
• JISCMAIL (public) mailing list: dc-usage@jiscmail.ac.uk
• JISCMAIL archive: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-usage.html

b) DCMI namespace policy - Stu

• DCMI Namespace Policy (posted for comment on 9 March 2001):
  [*] http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/03/09/dcmi-namespace/

c) mission and scope of Usage Board - Tom

d) foundation principles (grammar) - Tom

• Mission Statement Draft
• Comments on Mission Statement Draft

e) MARBI process - Rebecca

f) DCMI Usage Board process - Rebecca, Diane, Traugott, Tom

• Diane posted Usage Board process draft on May 02:
  [*] Diane's proposal
  -- Comments on Diane's proposal

g) Guidelines for vocabulary and encoding scheme qualifiers - Traugott, Roland

• Guidelines for reviewing and acknowledging vocabulary and encoding scheme qualifiers
• candidate Subject qualifiers:
  DC-Vocabulary-Qualifiers
  Comments on Encoding Schemes

2) Discussion and approval of some proposals

a) Education WG proposal - Stuart

• DCMI Education Proposal (to be discussed; required reading):
  
• DCMI Education Proposal background (useful): [cached copy]
  

b) Revised "best practice" note for language codes - Rebecca

DCMI-Usage.language-change

c) URI qualifier for Source in http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers

3) Inventory of (potential) future work items

a) SWD qualifier for Subject (Berthold Weiss)
b) Subject qualifiers for mathematics (Hans Becker)
c) DC-Citation (Cliff Morgan, Ann Apps, Andy Powell)
d) John Kunze's qualifiers for null values in the ARK Persistant Qualifier Scheme [cached copy]
e) MARC relator terms for creator/contributor/publisher?
f) Qualifiers for Ethnologue language terms (Diane Hillmann)
g) Bringing grammatical jargon used for [1] in line with [3] (e.g., "name" versus
"label" versus "identifier")
h) "Personal" and "Corporate" as qualifiers of CCP elements
i) MARC code list for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions as an encoding scheme
Classification sources [cached copy]
Subject thesauri [cached copy]

4) "Other"

a) Relationship of User Guide to Usage Board

b) Schedule the next meeting

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dces
[2] http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/11/dcmes-qualifiers
[3] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers
[4] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/baker/10baker.html