Eric,
Thanks for this. Your suggested charter and workplan look good to
me.
But one thing we may also need to consider, that you don't
mention specifically, is date ranges, given that the WG scope
includes dcterms:temporal as well as dc:date. As far as I know
W3CDTF is an encoding scheme for single dates rather than a
date range. There may not be a need to record a date range for the
temporal coverage of a single resource - maybe you could just use
repeated single dates. But for a collection date ranges are certainly
needed.
I don't think you actually need to change your wording to include
date ranges. Or maybe it is part of the '?' after DC-Collections?
Best wishes,
Ann
Date sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:54:32 -0500
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Subject: [DC-DATE] DC date working group initial agenda
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> Greetings,
>
> I apologize for the delayed start in communications. It seemed
> desirable to allow time for all interested parties to sign up (and
> indeed we got a few new members late last week).
>
> But now we need to go to work. ;) See below.
>
> Eric
>
> Eric Childress
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>
>
> As of 2003-11-24 the DC Date WG:
> number of persons subscribed: 17
> representing countries: AU, DE,NZ,UK,US
>
> DC WG web page: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/date/
> Note: I'll periodically revise and improve this page to add useful
> links & to update members of the wider community as the WG works
> through milestones/issues
>
> Deliverables:
>
> 1. Review the charter of the WG (and propose changes as needed --
> changes to the charter will require formal DC Advisory Board approval)
>
> 2. Agree on general deliverables -- preferably with specific target
> dates and assignments for completion -- & deliver an action plan.
>
>
> As chair, I propose that the WG being discussion immediately on both
> of these items.
>
>
> Information from the chair:
>
> 1. Review the charter of the WG:
>
> Chair comment: The following is the existing charter. Please review.
> I shall take silence as assent, but welcome written comments of
> support for retaining the charter as written, or recommendations for
> changes to the charter (please support recommendations for changes
> with rationale and suggest alternative text). As a reminder, changes
> must be approved by the DC Advisory Board. --Target completion of DC
> Date WG discussion of item 1: 2003-12-01
>
> "The purpose of the DC Date WG is to provide a forum for considering
> issues related to the representation of dates in metadata.
>
> The specific goals of the WG are:
> 1. Provide an outlet for the discussion of issues related to the
> representation of dates in metadata 2. Foster the adoption of
> standards and practices that will enhance the interoperability of date
> information conveyed in Dublin Core metadata 3. In consultation with
> other interested DCMI WG's: - identify categories of commonly-recorded
> dates which cannot be satisfactorily represented using ISO 8601 or
> other well-established international standards governing the
> representation of dates - investigate options to provide for the
> interoperable representation of these types of dates."
>
> Recommendation from WG chair: Accept WG charter without alterations
>
>
> 2. Agree on general deliverables -- preferably with specific target
> completion dates and assignments -- & deliver an action plan.
>
> Chair comment: The DC Date WG has been reconstituted chiefly to
> address the third item in the charter above. Both the DC Libraries WG
> and the DC Collections WG in the course of drafting their respective
> application profiles have discovered issues related to the recording
> of dates. Other parties have also raised date-related issues over the
> course of time with the chair (I served as the final chair of the
> original DC Date WG). Because there are several available courses of
> action to remedy issues that have been raise -- and some courses
> would require interaction with outside parties (i.e. outside of the
> DCMI) -- I am suggesting that we initially agree on a "general" plan,
> but anticipate that pieces of the general plan may spawn small
> projects of their (which we'll develop action plans for as things
> evolve). --Target completion of DC Date WG discussion of item 1:
> 2003-12-08
>
> Chair recommendation: Consider the following proposed deliverables:
>
> Deliverable 1: Investigation: Identify categories of
> commonly-recorded dates which cannot be satisfactorily represented
> using ISO 8601 or other well-established international standards
> governing the representation of dates.
>
> Chair comment: This will include -- at a minimum -- items forwarded
> from the DC Libraries WG
> (http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/16/library-application-pr
> ofile/ #Date "It may be desirable to establish a DC-Lib encoding
> scheme or profile of ISO 8601 to cover B.C.E. dates, questionable and
> approximate dates. This will require additional work") and DC
> Collections WG (?)
>
> Deliverable 2: Deliver recommendations for addressing categories of
> commonly-recorded dates which cannot be satisfactorily represented
> using ISO 8601 or other well-established international standards
> governing the representation of dates.
>
> Deliverable 3: Review and -- as needed -- recommend modifications to
> Dublin Core date and coverage-temporal elements and refinements to
> assure: 1. appropriate encoding schemes are available for use with
> each element and refinement, and 2. there is appropriate alignment of
> defined encoding schemes across temporal information-related elements
> and refinements in the Dublin Core.
>
>
> Chair: Please review all items and post comments to the DC Date WG
> discussion list. Thanks.
>
> Eric
>
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