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DCMI Advisory Board

DCMI Advisory Board. Meeting 17 October 2009 Report. Participants. At the meeting: Tom Baker, Raju Buddharaju, Christine Frodl, Juha Hakala, Jon Mason, Eva Méndez, Akira Miyazawa, Karen Rollitt, Stefanie Rühle, Shigeo Sugimoto, Joe Tennis, Emma Tonkin, Andrew Wilson Remotely:

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DCMI Advisory Board

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  1. DCMI Advisory Board Meeting 17 October 2009 Report DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  2. Participants • At the meeting: • Tom Baker, Raju Buddharaju, Christine Frodl, Juha Hakala, Jon Mason, Eva Méndez, Akira Miyazawa, Karen Rollitt, Stefanie Rühle, Shigeo Sugimoto, Joe Tennis, Emma Tonkin, Andrew Wilson • Remotely: • Ana Alice Baptista, Eric Childress, Sarah Currier, Diane Hillmann, John Kunze, Keven Liu, Thomas Severiens, Stuart Sutton, Mary Woodley DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  3. Reporting acknowlegdements • Report snippets to be done per agenda item • Participants at the meeting taking turns • Snippets to be sent immediately to DC-AB • Reporters: • Tom Baker, Raju Buddharaju, Christine Frodl, Juha Hakala, Jon Mason, Eva Méndez, Akira Miyazawa, Karen Rollitt, Stefanie Rühle, Joe Tennis, Emma Tonkin, Andrew Wilson DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  4. Agenda 09:00-12:45 DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  5. Agenda 14:00-17:15 DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  6. Advisory Board membership • Retired members: • Harry Wagner, Heike Neuroth, Lulú Feria • New members: • Seth van Hooland, Ana Alice Baptista, Javier Solorio, Lorcan Dempsey, Samantha Starmer, Mike Teets • Proposed new members: • Talat Chaudhri (DC-Scholar), Marcia Zeng, Michael Panzer (depending on TG proposals) DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  7. Advisory Board membership • Makx to invite Schubert Foo, representative on Oversight Committee for National Library Board Singapore • Talat Chaudhri OK, Marcia Zeng and Michael Panzer will be invited if and when their proposed Task Groups get established DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  8. Advisory Board and Chairs issues • Little activity on Community and Task Group lists • Architecture (19), General (13), RDA (9), Science (7), Kernel-KAP (4), Scholar (2) per month; rest lower • Little activity on Wikis, 2-3 updates per year average • Lowest activity Government (no updates), Collection (May 2007), Registry (Aug 2008), Identifiers (Dec 2008) • Task groups inactive, except RDA, Kernel, Education (?) • Hard to get attention from chairs • Do we need to define “performance” guidelines? DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  9. Advisory Board and Chairs issues • Community moderators may need to create activity, e.g. Identifiers has fallen silent and addresses important issue. Douglas to revive? • TG leaders should report regularly to list and moderators should announce meetings on list • AB members to respond to requests for contributions and information • Approach of collaboration through scheduled conference calls (Kernel): good practice to be followed! DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  10. Evaluation DC-2009 • Total of 97 participants, 18 countries • General impression: high quality presentations • New participants (finance, telecom, AV archive) • Special sessions on Linked Data • Good set of issues, but too many, too diverse • Less need for introductions, good discussions • Lessons for next year? DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  11. Kernel Task Group • Propose to continue • ERC as object of profile; Kernel is lexicon • Interop level 1 done; ERC/Turtle mapping for Lev. 2 • Timeline • Oct 2009 – ERC-to-Turtle software beta • Dec 2009 – Draft 1.5 KAP, call for comments • Mar 2010 – Draft maintenance procedures • Apr 2010 – Final integration • May 2010 – Close down DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  12. Kernel Task Group • Tom to discuss with John publication of Kernel documentation and UB review of kernel AP • Eric Childress to follow John on Twitter re: Namaste tags and follow up if any action needed • John to inform DC-Tools and DC-Architecture of Kernel results • Task Group to continue as proposed DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  13. Libraries AP Task Group • No plan received • Discussed at DC-2009 DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  14. Glossary Task Group • No plan received • Mary to send work plan with the structure, timeline and names who are involved to AB list by end of October. DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  15. Proposed: DC-KOS • Background: need for describing KOS, could be done with Dublin Core Application Profile • Work to be based on NKOS work with definition of KOS Type vocabulary • Proposed by Marcia Zeng • Others: Gail Hodge, Marjie Hlava, Denise Bedford, Doug Tudhope, Traugott Koch DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  16. Proposed: Task Group Meta-metadata • Motivation: describe sets of statements, data graphs, not necessarily “records” • Goal: shared model to record quality, rights, provenance, compliance, sources, trust • First step: survey requirements, exchange mechanisms (OAI, Atom) • Proposed by Michael Panzer, OCLC • Others: Kai Eckert, Keven Liu DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  17. Proposed: Task Group Meta-metadata • Generally positive response from AB • Actions to be taken: • take into account work Andrew W. did on A-Core • needs rewrite to make it clearer, Jon Phipps to help? • consider utility Records Management metadata • Jon Phipps to determine realistic timeline in a week • possibly consider Collections Application profile? • Makx to inform Michael Panzer DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  18. DCMI/RDA Task Group • Develop Application Profile • Discuss Description Set Profile patterns • Involvement in Vocabulary Mapping Framework • Liaise with IFLA re: FRBR namespaces • Planning full-day seminar at ALA 2010 DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  19. DCMI/RDA Task Group • Diane will keep AB informed about the outcome of the VMF work • Diane will share a link to the NISO webinar • Continue as propsoed DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  20. Registry Task Group • Getting feedback on survey • Fulfilling use cases (IEMSR phase IV funding) • Examine longer-term future inter-registry interop • Closer look at SKOS and other standards • Develop registry (list) of registries • Target completion: second half 2010 • Continue as proposed DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  21. Translation Task Group • Develop scope of guidelines (Oct. 09) • Compile draft guidelines for translators • E.g.: introductory info DCMI, variations in current practice, priority list, recommended process • Community review of guidelines • Collect issues and questions • Collect case studies and good practice DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  22. Translation Task Group • Discussion in Seoul revealed a need for a short document with general overview of metadata - something that could be translated easily • Karen, Shigeo will liaise with Stefanie, who is drafting a short Introduction to DC (in the style of Using DC) • Task Group to continue DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  23. DCMI Oversight Committee • Discussed financial status, annual accounts • Need for increased support • Members, partners, lower-entry sponsorship • Plan “marketing” activities, eg. YouTube • Consider standing Conference Commitee • Usage Board future and activities • Documentation roadmap DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  24. DCMI Oversight Committee • AB members to look for potential targets for Membership and Partnership • Makx to work on a “marketing” plan, including • clarify (article?) what we are doing and why • Open Access article “Future of Dublin Core” • Tweets, YouTube videos, podcasts • inviting demos of products and services based on DC DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  25. DCMI Usage Board • Currently seven members • Tom Baker (chair), Julie Allinson, Akira Miyazawa, Pete Johnston, Andrew Wilson, Joe Tennis, Stefanie Rühle • Andrew stepping down after Seoul meeting • Highlights 2008-2009 • Review of Scholarly Works Application Profile • Review of proposed property “accessibility” • Publication of updated ISO 15836:2009 (DCMES) • Review (in Seoul) of existing user-oriented materials, such as Frequently Asked Questions, Glossary, and “Using Dublin Core” DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  26. DCMI Usage Board – future • Continue: • Routine maintenance of DCMI Metadata Terms • Review of application profiles • Continue (and continue not emphasizing): • New terms in context of application profiles • New emphasis: • Review answers to questions asked on DCMI mailing lists • Continually review Frequently Asked Questions, Glossary, and Website landing pages for freshness DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  27. DCMI Usage Board • Sharpen focus of activities to questions arising out of usage of DC • Continue emphasizing importance of context of Application Profiles for DC-Terms • Continue monitoring FAQ, glossaries, etc so they are fresh & reflect current thinking • Establish new policy to be more positive and reject proposals only if clearly wrong DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  28. DCMI Architecture Forum • Highlights from 2008-2009 • Public comment on DC-DS-XML (finalization as DCMI Recommendation pending) • Description Set Profile working draft is basis for Usage Board application profile review criteria • “Interoperability levels for Dublin Core metadata” published as a Recommended Resource • RFC 2731 to be obsoleted with pointer to DC-HTML DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  29. DCMI Architecture Forum • Highlights from 2008-2009 • Karen Coyle identifies key application profile “design patterns” • In the wider metadata world, much of the “structured data” , embedded RDFa, and “linked data” uses Dublin Core terms • Results from Seoul • DCAM will be revised – simpler, based directly on RDF DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  30. Architecture Forum • Architecture work to continue but to be explained in context of article outlining current strategies and future plans DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  31. Collection Description AP Task Group • Correct minor errors and inconsistencies • Review compliance Abstract Model and DSP • Review in light of implementations • Problem: • Human resources, Sarah to step down • No others have come forward • Move work to Libraries or Science & Metadata? DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  32. DCMI Events • Possible objectives: • Attract research(ers), knowledge sharing, technical development, network building, working meetings, income generation • Possible formats: • Physical conference, Webinar, download material • Business models? • Subscriptions, pay-per-view, cost/benefit, ROI DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  33. DCMI Events • Set up standing Conference Committee • Stuart Sutton (chair), Andrew Wilson, Jon Mason, Karen Rollitt, Eric Childress, Liddy Nevile, others? • Consider shorter face-to-face conferences? • Consider introducing virtual participation are reduced rate, especially for students • Look at opportunities to co-locate with other major conferences DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  34. DC-2010 • Conjunction with ASIS&T, 20-22 October • Wednesday Tutorial day & working meetings • Thursday-Friday conference & workshop • Saturday AB and joint DCMI/ASIS&T seminar(?) • Approach • Reviewed and invited contributions, “workshoplets” • Need: • Program chairs, Tutorial chair, Publicity committee DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  35. DC-2010 • Diane has volunteered for program co-chair • Liddy will again be workshop chair • Makx to contact ASIS&T to see if they have suggestions for program co-chair • Makx to solicit tutorial chair and publicity committee chair on AB list • Tom and Corey to plan a hack-a-thon DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  36. DCMI Web site and communications • New look Web site, to be evaluated • Possibly upgrade Wiki infrastructure • Social tools • Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, others? Resources! • Policies: • Web site for basic information and stable documents • Wikis for collaborative work? • Mailing lists for reports, announcements, discussions DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  37. DCMI Web site and communications • Makx to compare Google statistics November 2008 with November 2009 • Mike Crandall or IA Summit evaluation of DCMI webpage • Shigeo and Karen to link to translations page from L&I Community page • Tom to sort out MoinMoin upgrade with Eric Miller (Emma to help with any conversions) DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  38. DCMI Web site and communications • Libraries to publish final report on mailing list • Tom to look at wiki future (Google Wiki?) • All chairs should use the mailing lists if they have reports or meeting announcements • Subversion is also part of our collaborative infrastructure if people want (e.g. Tools, Kernel) • People are free to work with what's best for them (e.g., Google docs – but be careful about rights) DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  39. DCMI Feedback • Since AskDCMI disappeared, no platform • Dcmifb@dublincore.org receives some queries, also LinkedIn, Facebook • Dispatching ad-hoc • No creation of knowledge base • Need to decide how to handle this DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  40. DCMI Feedback • Usage Board to use AskDCMI items saved in database by Emma for new FAQ • Emma to send link to the database to the AB • Emma offers a solution for an interface • Makx to ask for volunteers to answer questions • There has to be a link between Emma and the Usage Board. DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  41. Agents Task Group • No progress since FOAF review • Is there a community need? • If so, who can commit time? • Otherwise, de-activate DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  42. Government AP Task Group • No plan received • DC-2008 plan was to finalize and publish with status of working draft • Makx to contact Hans Overbeek to discuss an orderly shutdown of the Government AP Task Group DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  43. DCMI/IEEE Task Force • Prepare draft for IEEE ballot end 2009 • Extract RDF vocab from draft and submit for ballot • Sync process with DCMI publication • Process comments and prepare publication • Mikael to report to Education list DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  44. Education AP Task Group • Aim for modular profile (plug-in) for educationally significant properties in DC and others e.g. LOM • Generic funct. reqs. done, specific ones still TBD • Domain model draft done (work-in-progress) • New elements and DSP reqs. to be determined • Usage guidelines to be developed DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  45. Education AP Task Group • New developments around MLR • Need for harmonizing standards and AP • TG uses tools to create an AP. This work should be shared with Architecture and Tools group • Sarah to report to AB and Education lists • Sarah to revise the slides and deliver a revised, detailed and expanded work plan with dates. DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  46. Any other business • DC-Date • Pete to keep an eye on this and come back to AB if he thinks we need to do more than just observing • DC-Tools • Makx to publish DC Tools TG on Web site • Thomas to report to mailing list • Conferences • Need to avoid conflicts between sessions DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

  47. Actions, timeline • Moderators of the following groups are to send a report of their DC-2009 meeting to their mailing lists by 15 November 2009: • Localization and internationalization • Science and metadata • Libraries • Registry DCMI Advisory Board meeting report, Seoul, Korea

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