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The DC CD WG held a meeting on Wednesday 13 September at the DC-2005 conference in Madrid. The first part of the meeeting focussed on the development of the DC CD AP; the second featured presentations by WG members on some of their work on related projects and services. 1. Background ============= I introduced the work of the WG and the DC CD AP, and summarised some of the current issues with the development of the DC CD AP. My slides are available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2005/cdwg/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2005/cdwg/cdwg.ppt 2. NISO Metasearch Initiative ============================== Juha Hakala (National Library of Finland/Helsinki University Library) reported that Task Group 2 of the NISO Metasearch Initiative has used the DC CD AP as the basis of its Collection Description Schema, and is aiming to publish a document as a Draft Standard for Trial Use in the near future. NISO MI TG2 has also sought to address the area of Service Description, using the Zeerex schema. 3. Current Work on DC CD AP =========================== 3.1 Value Reference/Representations Recent drafts had introduced information on how to represent or refer to values in a metadata description e.g. recommendations on whether value strings or value URIs should be deployed. No comments had been received, but these recommendations may change in the light of feedback. 3.2 Media-type of Items Summary of discussions on how to represent the fact that a Collection contains some Items of a specified media-type. Action: PJ to make proposal for resolution to mailing list. 3.3 Open-ended Date Ranges Current draft includes reference to scheme based on Recordkeeping Metadata Schema extension to ISO 8601 as temporary measure. Requires solution from DC Date WG. Action: Monitor/contribute to work of DC Date WG 3.4 Location/Service Brief discussion of data model issues. Robina Clayphan (British Library) noted that the capacity to record Location (place where Collection held/stored) as distinct from Service (system of access) may be significant where, for example, the Location is a place of legal deposit, suggesting that both the isLocatedAt/isAccessedVia properties may be required, at least for some collections. 3.5 Subproperty relations and DCAPs The DC CD AP had been the subject of an "informal review" by the DCMI Usage Board during its meeting just prior to DC-2005. The comments received were generally positive. Three suggestions were made (a) (Presentational) Align the labels/headings used in the summary document and the full DCAP document (b) (Presentational) Expand or clarify the abbreviations used to describe the constraints on value references/representations (3.1 above) (c) (Content) In a couple of cases the DC CD AP currently uses both a property and a subproperty of that property (e.g. dc:description and dcterms:abstract), but imposes "value space" constraints on the property in such a way that subproperty inferences result in a contradiction. To avoid the contradiction, the DC CD AP should use new subproperties in place of the "super"-properties (dc:description in the example above). (This applies also to the use of dc:relation, and possibly of dc:rights.) Action: PJ to make proposal for resolution to mailing list. 4. Charter/Workplan It was suggested that the WG continue with the existing charter with the main tasks for the coming year as - Revise DC CD AP in response to Usage Board review - Complete DC CD AP - Issues to resolve - Item media type/format - Location/Service - Open date range formats (DC Date WG) - Provide supporting materials - Bindings, guidelines, crosswalks The outline workplan is shown in slide 18 and will appear at http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/ when the DCMI Web site is next updated N.B. there are some dependencies on the progress and outputs of other DCMI WGs, specifically the Date WG (for an open-ended date range format) and the Architecture WG (for possible revisions to the XML and RDF bindings). 5. The second half of the meeting was given to three presentations: 5.1 Sarah Shreeves and Muriel Foulonneau at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (over a video-conference link) reported their experiences of using collection-level description in several projects and services, highlighting particularly the use of CLD to contextualise items as well as to support discovery. http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/ShreevesFoulonneau_DC2005.ppt 5.2. Kate Fernie from the UK Museums, Libraries and Archives Council described the work of the MICHAEL project in developing a network of inventories of cultural heritage collections. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2005/cdfernie/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2005/cdfernie/cdfernie.ppt 5.3 Bill Oldroyd of the British Library gave a short presentation on the creation and use of collection-level descriptions in the context of The European Library (TEL) initiative. Pete ------- Pete Johnston Research Officer (Interoperability) UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK tel: +44 (0)1225 383619 fax: +44 (0)1225 386838 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/p.johnston/