Hello all,

here are some notes from the Pittsburgh meeting.
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Liddy Nevile began the meeting with introductory discussion, and  
showed a video provided by Ana Alice Baptista, in which Ana explained  
the agenda of the event, including the following: the need to discuss  
the name of the community, the possibility for future group work, and  
the current findings of the DC-Social Tagging application profile.

It turned out that most participants were new to the community, so the  
discussion moved on to a general brainstorm about tagging: the types  
of tagging, possible uses, how to gather tags, and so forth.  
Requirements of various use cases for social tagging systems were  
discussed.

I arrived somewhat late, I'm afraid, as I'd managed to double-book  
myself across two different conferences in the same hotel - but I must  
say that the conversation seemed animated and knowledgeable, and had  
already resulted in several pages of notes!

Reviewing specific agenda points:

We discussed the possibility of a name change; there seemed a  
widespread feeling that perhaps the community might want to consider  
changing their name to something that covered the full span of the  
subjects under discussion - for example, "Social Web Community."  
Please feel free to let us know what you think!

We discussed a few possible questions of interest for group work. One  
suggestion was the perennially important
"How, in a professional context, is social tagging actually working?"
*If you have a question that you'd like to put to the community, or a  
suggestion for future group work, let us know!*
A challenge was identified - the need to 'clean up' user-contributed  
terms - sounds like an important area to take into account in future  
development for the SocialWeb DCAP.

The development of a proposal for joint work on the SocialWeb DCAP  
remains a priority area for the group -  maybe Elisabete Catarino  
might agree to take the lead in this area?

Finally - it was suggested that the group would benefit from closer  
links with the DC-Provenance task group.

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Many thanks to Ana and Eva, Liddy for facilitating an excellent  
session, and to Greg Tourte for technical support!

Regards,

Emma