Dear all,
I have managed to reach most of you by phone, but for those I
could not reach: I found out this afternoon that I must enter
the hospital tomorrow morning for a back operation. I will be
there for one week, getting out the day before I theoretically
would have flown to Seattle. So it is virtually certain I
will not come to Seattle. However, Stuart is looking into
setting up a phone bridge, so I may be able to attend the UB
meeting by voice. I will also be lying next to a telephone
for most of next week and will quite possibly grateful for
the diversion of an occasional chat (I will try to get the
phone to Makx for circulation to everyone).
It is 10pm already, I have to do some preparation
for the operation tomorrow (taxi at 8am), as well as
send out the Usage Board materials (and tutorial and
Internationalization/Localization meeting materials), such as
they are. I have had an opportunity to apologize in person
to most of you for the unfinished state of these materials,
but that's the best I can do under the circumstances.
A quick brain-dump, in no particular order:
-- I will try to bang out an agenda early tomorrow morning.
If I do not succeed in doing this, one basic guideline:
there will be four more participants on Sunday than on
Saturday:
-- Rebecca, who will be arriving circa 11am on Sunday.
She will cover MARC Relators; as well as ISO1806 and
AAT wrapup from Ithaca (which is tied to some encoding
scheme issues). She is interested in the issue of
structured values in particular because the DC-Lib AP
has some, so I offered that DCMICite be discussed and
voted on Sunday.
-- Stu (who will be with the Trustees the day before), who
wants to present and discuss several issues: a Creative
Commons proposal he has been working on with Eric and
Andy, and which will henceforth be shepherded by Andrew
(who will also have some comments to make about, for
example, related developments in MODS). Stu will also
present a "Directorate view" on the issue of offering
encoding scheme registration services. And he will
perhaps represent Makx's (and my) ideas on a potential
new member of the UB.
-- Heike Neuroth of SUB Goettingen, who (among many other
things) has been active in efforts to create a DCMI
Affiliate in Germany.
-- Jani Stenvall, who works with Juha Hakala in Helsinki.
-- Makx will not be able to attend either day because he
will be with the Trustees on Saturday and the Corporate
Circle on Sunday.
-- As Sunday is already starting to look pretty full, I suggest
that the basic discussion of the Abstract Model take place
on Saturday -- at least enough to get a rough idea of where
UB members stand on the issues and which documents may need
to be rewritten or merged. Somebody could perhaps provide
on Sunday a summary of that discussion as preparation for
the decision on DCMICite and the preliminary discussion
of the Creative Commons proposal.
-- One of the loose ends I will not be able to tie up is the
Type proposal, which depends on putting into place
an additional concept of "sub-class". I suggest that
we discuss this in the context of the Abstract Model
discussion on Saturday. I had hoped to draft a one- or
two-sentence definition for approval in Seattle but won't
even have time for that...
-- I trust Stuart can circulate information about the meeting
venue and about the dinner with the Trustees on Saturday.
Enough for now; will post if I think of more...
Tom
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Dr. Thomas Baker [log in to unmask]
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