Usage Board meetings

1. Usage Board meetings • Members in attendance: • Tom Baker (chair), Haruki Nagata, Diane Hillmann, Andy Powell, Traugott Koch, Stuart Sutton, Roland Schwaenzl (absent: Rebecca Guenther) • Meetings in Tokyo: Mon morning, Tues evening, Wed lunch, Saturday morning • Participation of members in relevant breakout groups

2. UB agenda items - done • 1) DC-Government profile • Uses existing DC terms, proposes 9 new terms • Result: some proposed terms rejected (reasons given); some returned to "revise/resubmit" • Follow-up: UB representative met with DC-Government WG, which plans revisions

3. UB agenda items - done • 2) Registration of vocabulary encoding schemes • Purpose: to facilitate creation of DCMI-maintained qualifiers for popular subject vocabularies (eg, "DDC" for "Dewey Decimal Classification") • Result: agreement on and documentation of policies, procedures, and Web form

4. UB agenda items - still to do • 3) Clarify/document process issues • Basic processes were discussed May 2001, approved by AC • 4) Clarify workflow and Web structure for Usage Board documentation • 5) Other business • 6) Schedule next meeting circa Mar 2002