Tuesday, October 15; 16:00 - 18:30

• DC-Environment
• Chair: Thom Pick
• 1. Introductory Note
  DC-Environment Interest Group has been initiated at the Tokyo DC 2001 BOF meeting. The initial group identified several items of interest:
  • to collect information on usage of DC in the environmental domain,
  • to give guidance of the use of DC in the environmental domain,
  • to install a forum for discussion of issues concerning DC with respect to environmental information resources,
  • to develop an application profile for the environmental domain, based on DC
  • to establish the representation of the environmental domain and their issues in DCMI (and vice versa?)

  It took a while to get the groups internet representation started. But since February 2002 we have an IG homepage http://www.dublincore.org/groups/environ/. Along came a discussions forum that may be accessed at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-environment&A=1.

  In the meantime we have finished a report on the use of DC in the environmental domain and have been working on a first draft for a DC-ENV application profile. We should use some time of the meeting to discuss these two products. A further issue is to discuss how to proceed on compiling guidance material. Finally we would like to discuss liaison with other related initiatives like ISO 19000 and the Open GIS Consortium.

• 2. Survey on the use of DC in the environmental domain
  The report is available at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-environment&A=1
• 3. DC-Environment Application Profile
  A first draft of the dc-env application profile has been compiled by stefan strathmann of the University and State Library of Lower Saxony. The issues to discuss are: what additional terms (elements, qualifiers, schemes) are needed to facilitate of environmental information resources on the internet. A new element Measurement Data has been proposed. Also Gelos has been proposed as a scheme for dc:subject The first draft is available at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/DC-ENVIRONMENT/DC-Env_AP_First_Draft.doc
• 4. Guidance Material for the use of DC in the environmental domain
  Discuss further procedure for compilation of Guidance Material
• 5. Relations to other Metadata initiatives in the environmental domain
  The ISO 19115 standard defines general-purpose metadata, in the field of geographic information. More detailed metadata for geographic datatypes and geographic services are defined in other ISO 19100 series standards and user extensions [ISO 19115]. This implementation specification is also intended to define implementation guidelines for general-purpose metadata. An attempt was made to incorporate interpretations of some other 19100 series standards into the implementation examples.
  Several mappings exist to other environmental metadata standards like e.g. GELOS and the german-austrian UDK.
  Simon Cox of the Open GIS Consortium has compiled a paper describing a framework and encoding for measurements and observations (http://www.opengis.org/techno/discussions/02-027.pdf). This is required specifically for the Sensor Collection Service and related components of an OGC Sensor Web capability, and also for general support for OGC compliant systems dealing in technical measurements in science and engineering. The aim is to define a number of terms used for measurements, and the relationships between them. This proposal discusses Observation, Measurement, Observed Value, Coverage, SensorInstance, ObservableType, and related terms, presented using UML class diagrams and in equivalent GML conformant XML serialisations.
  We should discuss the position of DC to these initiatives.
• 6. Other Issues
• DC-Education
• Chair: Stuart Sutton
• Agenda:
  • 1. Review of 2001-2002 work and accomplishments
  • 2. Audience characteristics study report
  • 3. Application profile task force discussion
  • 4. DCMI vocabulary development discussion
  • 5. 2002-2003 work agend
• DC-Libraries
• Chair: Rebecca S. Guenther
• Agenda:
  
  • 1. Discussion of revised DC-Lib application profile
  • 2. Discussion of current projects using (or considering the use of) DC-Lib AP
  • 3. Consideration of proposals relating to Agents (DCMI Agent Detail and Roles for Creator, Contributor, Publisher)
    Links:
    • DCMI Agent Detail: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0204&L=dc-agents&T=0&F=&S=&P=169
    • Roles for CCP: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dc/Agent-roles.html
  • 4. Discussion about partnerships to implement testbeds for DC-Lib AP
  • 5. Work agenda for coming year.

Wednesday, October 16; 16:00 - 18:30

• DC-Agents
• Draft Agenda:
  • recap of problem statement and definitions (20 mins)
  • status reports (10 mins)
  • Agent Linking Convention discussion and next steps (30 mins)
  • "Agent Core" discussion and next steps (30 mins)
  • Creator/Contributer/Publisher "qualifiers" and next steps (30 mins)
• DC-Registry
• DCMI Registry Working Group Agenda http://dublincore.org/groups/registry/
• Co-chairs of DCMI Registry Working Group:
  Rachel Heery , UKOLN, University of Bath Harry Wagner, OCLC
• Introduction
  The overall goal of the DCMI Registry Working Group (WG) is the development of a metadata registry providing authoritative information regarding the DCMI vocabulary and the relationship between terms in that vocabulary.
  The Registry WG provides a forum for discussion of registry-related activity and interaction with other registry and information management initiatives that share issues of common interest and relevance. Additionally, the WG provides a forum for liaising with the DCMI Usage Board and the related vocabulary management development activity.
  The specific goals of this WG are:
  • 1. The development of an operational registry providing a Web-based user interface (phase 1) and various application programming interfaces (phase 2) that facilitate the discovery, navigation and understanding of the DCMI, and related, semantics.
  • 2. Promote the acceptance and use of the DCMI vocabulary.
  • 3. Provide an authoritative source of information regarding the DCMI vocabulary.
  The scheduled implementation date for phase 1 is 9/30/2002. The project is on schedule and is expected to be completed prior to the WG breakout session.
• Agenda
  • 1. DCMI Registry Phase 1
    • Demonstration of the phase 1 registry
    • Discussion of any user interface issues, including any new user interface requirements
    • Discussion of any internationalization issues
  • 2. DCMI registry Phase 2
    • Update on status, participants, timeline, etc.
    • Architectural overview
    • Discussion of functional requirements related to the interface between the Registry and:
      • DCMI schemes registration application
      • DCMI vocabulary management system
      • Other applications (i.e., other Registries)
    • Discussion of technical alternatives
• DC-Citation - Agenda

Thursday, October 17; 11:00 - 13:00

• DC-Agents (2)
• Draft Agenda (cont)
  • wrap up from Wednesday, work assignments (20 mins)
  • INTERPARTY presentation by Robina Clayphan, followed by discussion
  • conclusions and summary of action items (10 Mins)
• DC-Government (2)
• DC-Standards
• Chair: Leif Andresen
• Agenda:
  • 1. Review of the fast track procedure in ISO TC46/SC4
  • 2. Formal standardization of other parts of DC