This is a cross posting of a mail I sent just now to the DC Advisory
Committee, targeted really at the members who are on the Usage Committee
which is due to meet on Monday. I am hoping that discussion at Usage
Committee will give us some more clarity on the 'approval process' for DC
qualifiers and domain specific application profiles.

I have just chatted with Harry Wagner, who is working on the EOR software
at OCLC. He will be making the demo system available from the web site
soon.... I think it would be helpful if this was linked from the DC
Registry WG pages.

My assumption has been that the DCMI Registry will just interface to DCMI
schemas i.e. it will be a place to search/browse thro DCMI
approved/proposed elements, qualifiers. However this does raise questions
of the 'boundaries' where DCMI has recommended usage of particular
schemes... these may be schemas themselves which it would be useful to
have registered.

Also if an application profile includes another non-DCMI namespace where
does one get information on that? My model assumes another registry for
that namespace.

It does seem that in a 'Phase One' registry one want to have a clear scope
so that users know when it is sensible to search the DCMI registry.

Rachel

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Mail to DC Advisory Committee:


In advance of the DC Usage Committee meeting on Monday, I have placed a
brief summary document entitled 'Purpose and Scope of the DCMI Registry'
on the DCMI web site. Linked to

http://www.dublincore.org/groups/registry/

This notes that there are dependencies on the Architecture WG for a
namespace model, and the Usage WG to clarify the process for assigning
a status to DC qualifiers, recommended schemes, domain specific
'extensions' (application profiles).

In particular I think it would be helpful to the Registry WG if the Usage
Cttee considered the process by which a 'proposed' qualifier etc was
registered. It may be that at this stage it is considered that the
registry only contains 'approved' qualifiers etc. I just think we need a
clear statement.

Thanks
Rachel
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Rachel Heery
UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking)
University of Bath                              tel: +44 (0)1225 826724
Bath, BA2 7AY, UK                               fax: +44 (0)1225 826838
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