A while ago, Makx asked us for a brief report of the activities since
September, which I see is due, err, today.

I'm appending a draft below (using the template supplied). If there are
any comments, errors, omissions, please shout!

Cheers

Pete

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Working Group Name: Collection Description
Working Group Chair(s): Pete Johnston


Results of Seattle meetings (if meeting took place):

The WG meeting at DC-2003 discussed and resolved a number of outstanding
issues with the 2003-08-25 draft of the Application Profile. There is
one significant issue outstanding regarding the descriptive semantics of
the Application Profile, and guidance was requested from the Advisory
Board on two other issues of policy.


Highlights of workplan 2003-2004:

The principal item of the workplan is the finalisation of the
Application Profile for collection-level description, together with
supporting materials.


Deliverable status, schedules and teams:

The proposed collection type vocabulary is essentially complete, pending
only guidance from the Directorate and/or Usage Board on the choice of
URIs.

A revised draft of the Application Profile was published in November,
and work on this is continuing. The WG is currently reviewing the
descriptions of terms to determine which are candidates for submission
to Usage Board as proposed DCMI terms.


Any problems encountered/remedies proposed:

The work on the term proposals is slightly behind schedule. It may be
necessary that some proposals are submitted to the forthcoming UB
meeting and some to the following UB meeting. On a more positive note,
the identification of suitable terms for reuse (e.g. in the MARC relator
vocabulary) has resulted in a reduction in some of the work expected in
this area.