Dear Working Group,

I'm pleased to announce that our group will have a chance to meet face
to face in 2 weeks at the Shanghai Library during the annual Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications Conference (DC-2004).  Everyone is welcome.

Obviously, many of you will not be able to attend, so no important
decisions will be taken without soliciting input from this mailing list.
Whether you can attend or not, please feel free to send in comments on
the draft agenda below.

-John


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        Draft Agenda -- Kernel Metadata Working Group Meeting
                16:20 - 18:00, Tuesday, 12 October 2004
                        Chair: John Kunze

1. Summarize current status of working group.  Solicit feedback on gaps,
strengths, weaknesses and strategies on each of the following agenda items.

2. Report on and discuss documentation efforts.

3. Report on and discuss progress in creating an XML mapping to/from
the simple label-colon-value ERC format.

4. Report on and discuss late-breaking state of open-source software
support for ERC/Kernel metadata, including demos, reference
implementations, and tools for backend systems and user interfaces.

5. Report on and discuss the need for creating best-practice guidelines
for applying the { who | what | when | where } questions to different
object types in different domains of specialization.

6. General discussion what we've done so far, where we need to go from
here, and how best to get there.


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