Schedule & Agenda


Monday, 3rd March 1997

7.00 - 08.30 Breakfast at Rydges Capital Hill

8.40 - 08.50 Shuttle Bus leaves Hotel for National Library

9.00 - 09.30 Registration

09.30 - 09.45 Plenary I: Introduction
Welcome by Warren Horton, Director-General of the NLA
Housekeeping (Warwick Cathro, NLA & Renato Iannella, DSTC)

09.45 - 10.30 DC Overview
DC4 Overview and Workshop Goals (Stu Wiebel, OCLC)
Background and Whats happened since DC2 and DC3
The RFC: What is missing
  1. Extensibility
  2. Element Structure
  3. Element Refinements

10.30 - 11.00 Morning Coffee/Tea

11.00 - 12.30 Plenary II: Strawman Proposals (Moderator: Renato Iannella)
Presentations:
Open Discussion

12.30 - 13.45 Lunch (Including Photo Call)

13.45 - 14.00 BOF I
Call for Bird-of-Feather groups

14.00 - 15.00 Breakout Session I
Four Groups assigned
Discussion focussed on the strawman proposals from Plenary II

15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Coffee/Tea

15.30 - 17.00 Plenary III: Breakout Reports (Moderator: Stuart Weibel)
10 minutes per group
Open Discussion for remaining time

17.30 - 19.00 Reception at the National Library

19.10 - 19.20 Shuttle Bus leaves National Library for Hotel

19.30 - Dinner at Rydges Capital Hill

Tuesday, 4th March 1997

7.00 - 8.30 Breakfast at Rydges Capital Hill

8.40 - 08.50 Shuttle Bus leaves Hotel for National Library

09.00 - 10.30 Plenary IV: News and Muse (Moderator: Renato Iannella)
Reports on related developments
  • PICS: London Meeting and Working Group (Eric Miller, OCLC)
  • I18N: Summary of current status, Prospects for progress (Misha Wolf, Reuters)
Open Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Morning Coffee/Tea

11.00 - 12.30 Plenary V: Element Refinements (Moderator: Warwick Cathro)
Strawman Proposal Presentations

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Breakout Session II
Four Groups assigned
Discussion focussed on the strawman proposals and plenaries

15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Coffee/Tea

15.30 - 17.00 Plenary VI (Moderator: Stuart Weibel)
Break out group reports (10 minutes each)
Open Discussion
Work Groups constituted to continue work on these issues as necessary

17.15 - 18.15 Tour
Shuttle bus leaves National Library for tour of Canberra, returning to Hotel

19.30 - Dinner at Rydges Capital Hill

Wednesday, 5th March 1997

7.00 - 08.30 Breakfast at Rydges Capital Hill

8.40 - 08.50 Shuttle Bus leaves Hotel for National Library

09.00 - 10.30 Plenary VII & BOF II: Project Reports from the field
Reports from projects that are actually implementing DC in one way or another
  • German Mathematical Preprint Project
  • DSTC Projects
  • ...
  • BOF Reports

10.30 - 11.00 Morning Coffee/Tea

11.00 - 12.30 Plenary VIII: Deployment Strategies
What do we have closure on?
What needs yet to be done?
Can we complete the RFC?
Work Groups?

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Open Discussion
Towards DC5

15.00 - 15.30
Afternoon Coffee/Tea and Departure