My understanding of this group's interest is to be a general forum for
discussion about preservation metadata. The relationship to Dublin Core
terms is questionable, since most preservation metadata is not descriptive
metadata.
Rebecca
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Thomas Baker wrote:
> Andrew, Heike,
>
> It would perhaps be helpful to start the charter with a
> statement describing the scope of the group in somewhat more
> concrete terms -- what is "preservation metadata"?
>
> A scope statement would help me understand to what extent the
> group would want to discuss good-practice guidelines for using
> resource descriptions based on DCMI terms (e.g., Dublin Core
> application profiles) in a preservation context -- an activity
> which would not seem to fall under the three points below.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:42:44PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> > I know we have been a bit silent and we apologise for that. We now need to
> > agree on the WG charter for sending to the Advisory Board for ratification.
> >
> > Charter
> >
> > This group is a discussion forum for individuals and organizations
> > interested in or implementing preservation metadata. The group will:
> > 1. collect information on and review existing preservation metadata
> > schema
> > 2. investigate the need for domain specific preservation metadata
> > schema (e.g. Archives, Libraries, Scientific Data), and
> > 3. liaise with other global preservation metadata projects such as
> > PREMIS, as appropriate.
> >
> > Chairs: Dr Andrew Wilson, National Archives of Australia
> > Dr Heike Neuroth, G?ttingen State and University Library
> >
> >
> >
> > We welcome comments and suggested changes/additions to the Charter from all
> > listmembers. Please send your comments to the DC-Preservation email list by
> > the 8 April 2004. Following the comment period Heike and I will put the
> > comments together and send the amended Charter to the list for approval.
> >
> > Thanks, and please don't be shy to tell us your thoughts.
> >
> > cheers
> > Andrew
> >
> > Dr Andrew Wilson
> > Co-chair
> > andreww:naa.gov.au
> > Dr Heike Neuroth
> > Co-chair
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