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Title:       Summary of DC Usage Board Meeting in Shanghai, October 2004
Identifier:  http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2004/10/Meeting-summary.shtml
Date:        2004-11-15
Contributor: Thomas Baker
Contributor: Andy Powell
Description: This brief summary captures the main decisions made
             at the Usage Board meeting held at Shanghai Library
             on 9-10 October 2004.  Note that Usage Board decisions 
             are not considered official until decision documents 
             are finalized and published on the DCMI Web site.

Agenda:  http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2004/10/ISSUES/

Members: Thomas Baker (chair)     Diane Hillmann         Andrew Wilson
         Rebecca Guenther         Andy Powell            Stuart Sutton
         Traugott Koch            Akira Miyazawa
Guests:  Eva Mendez               Pete Johnston          Liddy Nevile
         Juha Hakala              Jani Stenval           Dan Brickley
         Charles McCathie-Nevile  Raju Buddharaju

MARC Relator Terms

*   Approved set of circa 100 MARC Relator terms as
    sub-properties of dc:contributor.  Model: Library of 
    Congress asserts the sub-property relationship and
    Usage Board endorses those assertions.

*   DCMI needs an RDF-based mechanism for recording UB's
    endorsement of each LoC assertion.

Element proposal: Accessibility

*   Approved "Accessibility" as Recommended element.

*   Definition: A description of the
    qualities of the resource in terms of control, display
    and content that can be used to match the needs and
    preferences of a user.

Term proposals: Collection Description

*   Approved the following as "conforming" elements:

    accrualMethod
    accrualPeriodicity
    accrualPolicy

*   Unable to approve or reject proposals for 3 DC-CD
    controlled vocabularies.  Defer decision, pending
    clarification about the ongoing maintenance of such
    vocabularies by DCMI.

Term proposal: Instructional Method

*   Approved conforming element Instructional Method:
    'A process, used to engender knowledge, attitudes and
    skills, that the resource is designed to support'.

Issues related to the element Date

*   Will encourage the Date Working Group to suggest a change
    to the definition or comment for the Date element to clarify
    that a range of dates is valid as a value.

*   Determined that the need for one or more encoding schemes
    for ISO 8601-conformant dates needed further study by
    the Date Working Group.

Encoding Schemes

*   Need to develop a policy, process, mechanism and
    documentation for endorsing non-DCMI encoding scheme URIs
    coined by external organisations or people to identify
    their own vocabularies.

*   Will discuss these new options with NLM.

*   For each of the currently recommended encoding schemes
    we need to determine if it is a syntax encoding scheme or
    a vocabulary encoding scheme.

Abstract Model

*   Agreed to review the wording of element definitions for
    consistency with the abstract model.

Document "Element Refinement in Dublin Core Metadata"

*   Recommends to the Directorate that DCMI publish as a
    'recommended resource'.

Versioning of term descriptions

*   Agreed to continue the current practice of treating
    the description of a DCMI term as a discrete "bundle of
    attributes" that is assigned a new URI each time anything
    in that "bundle" is updated.