Since the Usage Board meeting, I have been grappling
with an issue that I think needs addressing with regard
to the DC-Education proposal and our resulting decisions/
recommendations.

We decided that action on the DC-Ed proposal in terms of
approving/not approving the IEEE elements was out of
scope for the UB--I agree.  We also decided that application
profiles should not reside in the DCMI registry--not so sure I
think this is a good idea.  At the meeting, I asked where the
DC-Ed application profile should reside otherwise.  One answer
was in the Schemas registry.  At least in terms of being
accessible, that would be OK.  But, beyond my not knowing the
projected lifespan of that registry, I have a fairly systemic
question.  If the Usage Board does not "act" in some
manner on aspects of working group proposals that reference
other namespaces (e.g., the IEEE LOM with DC-Ed), doesn't that
mean that there is no official DCMI "imprimatur of approval" of
the application profile itself?  Or, does it mean that approval of those
aspects of the proposal that make it an application profile rest
solely with the working group?  If this is the case, where does such
authority stem from and where is it acknowledged?

I think that if DCMI does not somehow "recommend" DCMI-sourced
application profiles and manage the profile schemas, the pressure
will be on to _not_ reference other namespaces when it is otherwise
appropriate to do so and to instead include new elements and
qualifiers within the DCMI namespace.  Buy-in to an application profile
will only be large if the application profile has some official status.
Right now, the DC-Ed application profile has none.  Isn't it possible
for there to be a DCMI recommendation (I assume with Domain-
Specific status) for application profiles--a recommendation involving
the "use" of non-DCMI elements without recommending those
elements as "conforming"?  I don't know whether any other application
profiles from other working groups loom on the horizon, but I cannot
help but think that there will be others.

Stuart
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The Information School of the University of Washington
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Stuart A. Sutton, Associate Professor
The Information School of the University of Washington
Suite 370, Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840
Seattle, WA  98195-2840
(206) 685-6618(V)      (206) 616-3152(F)
http://www.iSchool.washington.edu
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