I am sorry, I have had so many things to do that I haven't started these
discussions.

We have had quite a few discussions about title both at the IFLA meeting
in Aug. and at the Tokyo meeting. So I would suggest that we start with
something else. The messages below had started in the Agents group, but I
thought it would be useful for DC-Libraries to be in on the discussion
since I cited the charge of the group, so I copied this group on my
response. Since the Agents group is responsible for coming up with a
strategy, I think we should hold discussion on Agents for the LAP until
after there is more consensus there. So I would like to start discussion
on Subject.

Also, I would like to use the "drafting committee", that is the
DC-Libraries Application Profile group for these discussions, because I
think it will be easier to discuss in a smaller group. We will revise
DC-Lib AP based on those discussions and then request comments from the
larger DC-Libraries group.

Assuming no strong objections to this approach, I will prepare a message
to start discussing Subject.

Rebecca
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Olga Barysheva wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I beg you pardon, but as I can remember we agreed in Tokyo in the
> "1-2 week per element" order of interaction. May be we start the
> process from the Title element now? Or Agents because it seems to be
> already started.
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olga Barysheva
> Division of digital resources, Head
> Automation Department,
> The National Library of Russia,
> 18, Sadovaya str., St.-Petersburg,
> 191069 RUSSIA
>
> >   Rebecca S. Guenther writes
>
> >> I think this has been the assumption for quite a long time in the DC
> >> working groups; that is why the ability to link to authority records
> >> outside of the resource is so important, be they VCard, an international
> >> library-created authority file, or some DC Agent core that could emerge.
>
> >   Are there any proposals on how such a registry would operate?
> >   It seems that there are major managerial obstacles to be
> >   overcome for such a system to work for all countries and
> >   all subject damains.
>
> >   I have a registry running for the RePEc digital library
> >   for economics. There, people register themselves to create
> >   associations (author, editor) with document data in RePEc.
> >   This system is described in
>
> >   http://openlib.org/home/krichel/phoenix.html
>
> >   and runs at
>
> >   http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/HoPEc/geminiabout.html
>
> >   It has been quite successful in that we now
> >   have over 10% of all RePEc papers thant have at least
> >   one registered author. Since the registration is
> >   carried out by authors, there is no cost apart
> >   from maintaining the software.
>
>
> >   Cheers,
>
> >   Thomas Krichel                              mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >                                          http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> >                                      RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>
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