DC Kernel Metadata Working Group Meeting, Manzanillo, Mexico

		Tuesday, 4 October 2006, 14:00 - 16:00

A. Review current status of the working group and summarize various offline
activities of working group members (there hasn't been much online activity),
notably those reported at from the Metadata Tools for Digital Resource
Repositories Workshop (at the June JCDL meeting in North Carolina) [1]

B. Discussion of the proposed Kernel Application Profile [2], which working
group members are strongly encouraged to review and provide feedback on.

C. Discussion of the proposed relationship between the Dublin "Kernel"
elements, the Dublin Core elements, and the Dublin Core Abstract Model.
Pete Johnston will present on how he sees the Abstract Model mapping
to the Kernel Application Profile.

D. Brief presentation by Alistair Miles, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
on SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) [3] and its possible
relationship to simple Kernel metadata,

E. Brief presentation by Jane Greenberg, School of Information and Library
Science, UNC, on possible collaboration with the DC Tooks working group.

F. Discussion and revision of the workplan, assignment of tasks and
deadlines.


References 

 1. http://www.ils.unc.edu/mrc/jcdl2006/tools_workshop.html
 2. http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=DC-KERNEL&X=&Y=&a=get&f=/kap.txt
 3. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/