The DC CD WG held a meeting on Monday 11 October at the DC-2004
conference in Shanghai.

1. Background
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I presented some background to the work of the WG and the DC CD AP, then
the meeting considered some of the current issues with the development
of the DC CD AP.

My slides are available at

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2004/cdwg/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2004/cdwg/dccdwg.ppt


2. Current Issues
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2.1. Collections/Locations/Services
===================================
I summarised the discussions to date and drew attention to Judith
Pearce's recent message [1] suggesting that while it may be possible to
distinguish locations and services, the primary concern of DC CD AP
should be indicating the provision of access to (the items in) the
collection.

There were some comments that the need to record the fact that a
collection was stored at a place of legal deposit may be grounds for
recording location independently of service.

The meeting did not resolve this issue.

2.2. One-to-One issues
=======================
What properties should be used in the DC CD AP to represent

- the media-type of items in collection?
- dates of creation of items in collection?

The meeting did not resolve this issue.

2.3. Date issues
=================
The DC Date WG met at the same time as DC CD WG and reported that it is
seeking to address the issues raised by DC CD WG, probably through
developing proposals for new encoding schemes.

2.4 Identifiers
===============
Juha Hakala outlined the proposal for a collection identifier scheme
based on ISILs and suggested he would make a recommendation to progress
this work in ISO TC46.

2.5. Language schemes
======================
The meeting decided to uphold the current WG decision mandating the use
of ISO 639-2 for language codes.

2.6. Logo/Graphical Representation
=================================
Discussion suggested that such a property was probably not required to
support discovery/selection and so was probably out of scope for the DC
CD AP.

However, the question was raised of whether such a property may be
useful from the perspective of accessibility.

2.7 Additional attributes
=========================
No requests were made for the addition of any further attributes to the
DC CD AP.


3. Workplan
===========
I proposed that the WG continue for 2004/2005 under the current charter,
with a revised workplan as proposed to the mailing list on 4 Oct 2004
[2]

The meeting agreed the workplan.

Sarah Shreeves (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is working
on Usage Guidelines.
Robina Clayphan (British Library) offered to contribute examples if a
suitable "template" is made available (I'll produce a basic template in
the next few days).


AOB
===
Andrew Wilson reported on behalf of the DC Usage Board that (subject to
the finalisation of the decisions and their endorsement by the
Directorate), at their meeting on 9/10 October:

(a) the proposals for the three new properties submitted by the DC CD WG
had been approved with minor changes to the wording of the definitions;

(b) decisions on the proposals for the three vocabulary encoding schemes
had been deferred. The UB felt that it was not in a position to commit
itself to the maintenance of new controlled vocabularies, and urged the
DC CD WG to consider finding another maintenance agency for the
controlled vocabularies.

[1]
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0410&L=dc-collections&T
=0&F=&S=&P=537
[2]
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0410&L=dc-collections&T
=0&F=&S=&P=427

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Pete Johnston
Research Officer (Interoperability)
UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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