DCMI Usage Board - 2007-06-29 telecon - agenda

Expected: Tom, Akira, Diane, Stuart, Joe, Andrew

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-- Changes to terms of the DCTERMS namespace

"Revisions to DCMI Metadata Terms" will be published for Public
Comment on Monday, 2 July, so we need to finalize it on the telecon.
The sources of the document are:

-- Barcelona decisions [1] - see the proposal discussed meeting packet [3]
-- My summary of changes made to the proposal discussed [4]
-- Changes made between DCTERMS-2006 [6] and NISO Z39-85-2007 [5]

[1] http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DCTermsChangesActions
[2] http://stage.dublincore.org/usage/public-comment/2007/07/dcterms-changes/index.shtml
[3] http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2007/03/barcelona/2007-03-16.ub-agenda-barcelona.pdf
[4] http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DCTermsChangesActionsDone
[5] http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-85-2007.pdf
[6] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

ACTION 2007-06-08: Diane to shepherd discussion of this in Singapore.

ACTION 2007-03-17: Tom to write a paragraph
about placing undeclared legacy DCTERMS classes
(SubjectScheme, etc, p.64) into historical context -
http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2007/03/barcelona/SubjectScheme.txt
-- DONE: see http://stage.dublincore.org/usage/public-comment/2007/07/dcterms-changes/#subjectscheme
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0706&L=dc-usage&P=1191

-- Domains and ranges

The Domain Vocabulary [1] has been revised in light of
Barcelona decisions [2]. In the telecon, we need to finalize
it for Public Comment starting Monday, 2 July.

Note: dcterms:identifier is being proposed with a range of
rdfs:Literal.

[1] http://stage.dublincore.org/documents/2007/07/02/domain-range/
[2] http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DomainsActions
[3] http://stage.dublincore.org/documents/2007/07/02/domain-range/#dctermsidentifier

ACTION 2007-03-17: Domains and Ranges
vocabulary to be finalized for Public Comment.
Barcelona decisions are described in
http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DomainsActions

ACTION 2007-03-17: write a proposal capturing the issue
of string, unspecified, and thing for the problematic
DCTERMS properties (title and its subproperties, date and
its subproperties, and description and its subproperties).
Taking the following position:
1. Title and its subproperties as literals [check notes]
2. Date and its subproperties as literals
3. Description and its subproperties as range = rdfs:resource
Then send this proposal out for public comment. There
are two audiences for this comment: (1) multiple script
communities and (2) SW community asking: best practice for
unspecified ranges. Note that we will use the non-literal
resource in all cases where the domain of our properities
is listed as rdfs:resource (in the proposal).

ACTION 2007-03-18: Diane to define language - see
http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DomainsActions

ACTION 2007-03-18: Andy to add a new class of non-literal
resource to the wiki, use as domain and range as
appropriate.

-- Review of Collections profile (Andrew)

Compare to:
-- http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/CollectionsProfileReviewNotes

ACTION 2007-06-18: All to comment between June 18 and
June 29 on http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/CollectionsProfileReview
and http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/CollectionsProfileReviewTb --
goal is to add bullet points under "Comments" summarizing issues arising
during UB review.

-- Future of Usage Board

Tom recirculated the discussion materials on June 18 [1,2].

[1] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0706&L=dc-usage-bc&P=333
[2] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0706&L=dc-usage-bc&P=443

-- Application profile review criteria

Revise http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/ProfileReviewCriteria ?
In light of: http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/CollectionsProfileReviewNotes

ACTION 2007-06-08: Joe to edit ProfileReviewCriteria.

ACTION 2007-03-17: Stuart and Joe revise Term Decision Tree:
http://dublincore.org/architecturewiki/TermDecisionTree.
(Note: the difference is basically String vs. Thing.)

ACTION 2007-03-17: Joe to draft a document discussing
issues related to principles and purpose of UB decision-making.
(The context was the decision to define ISO639-2 as a set of codes.)
Joe will work with Stuart on this (2007-06-08).

-- SES and VES clarification
http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2007/03/barcelona/Encoding-schemes.txt

AGREED: We need a deeper level of description and
differentiation between VES and SES, including definitions.
If you have a something already, how do you tell if it is
VES or SES. If an Encoding Scheme tells you what a value
string it it's a SES. If Encoding Scheme defines a class
of values, then it is a VES (e.g., concepts). For example,
if you develop a list of educational levels, and if you
define a list of strings, then you're defining an SES.
If you define a set of concepts and assign URIs to them (as
best practice), then you're defining a VES. Best practice
in this scenario is to define a set of concepts with URIs
rather than a set of strings. Agreed that DC-Education
is a great test-bed for these concepts. SES is a datatype
in RDF. VES is like conceptScheme in SKOS, only not limited
to concepts. For discussion: VES is a set of concepts that,
once in metadata, allows editors to handle assertion by
adding things to it. SES is a set of strings.

ACTION 2007-03-17: Stuart and Joe to write a one-page
explanation differentiating VES and SES, vet with Pete
Johnston

-- Process
http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/
http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2007/03/barcelona/Process_Doc_Revisions.txt

ACTION 2007-06-08: Tom to fold revisions into document and
forward to Makx.
-- DONE 2007-06-18: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0706&L=dc-usage-bc&P=140

-- Singapore agenda
-- DCTERMS changes - finalization after July public comment
-- Domains and ranges - finalization after July public comment?
-- VES and SES
-- Application profile review?
-- Simple Dublin Core profile
-- Process?

ACTION 2007-06-18: Diane to circulate a link to OLAC Application Profile.
Diane and Stuart to investigate preliminary review of Education profile.

-- Legacy documentation dependent on model

ACTION 2006-10-01: Tom to replace the Principles
document at http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/
with a page that copies the definitions of elements etc from
DCAM and includes a short text stating: that the document which
used to live here has been superseded by the DCAM. Update UB
page to say we do things in light of the DCAM.

ACTION 2006-10-01: Tom to look through DCMI site
and note those pages where a reference to the principles
document needs to be changed to a reference to the DCAM
as appropriate.

-- Revisions to RDF schemas in light of DCAM

-- Structure of DCMI Metadata Terms document

The document DCMI Metadata Terms
(http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) needs to
be restructured in light of DCAM changes. See proposed
outline at
http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/DcmiTermsOutline.

-- Next telecons

Fri Jun 29
Fri Jul 6

Time: 0600 Seattle
0900 New York
1300 UTC
1400 London
1500 Berlin
2200 Tokyo
2300 Sydney

Target: finalize meeting packet by August 17 (one
week before Singapore meeting).

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