Diane, Gordon and others,
I'm responding to Gordon's email as a confirmation of the ISBD RG's
interest in the proposed work.
Best,
Mirna
> Diane and others
>
>
> For Work item 1, we should look at the LODE-BD Recommendations for AGRIS
> Network
> [1]. I like the workflow/decision tree approach! Also, this work item is
> likely
> to be of interest to IFLA, so I hope IFLA members of the Community will be
> able
> to contribute.
>
>
> Work item 3 is very much of interest to IFLA. The ISBD/XML Study Group
> proposed
> a project for this year to develop guidelines on using the IFLA element
> set and
> value vocabularies (overlap with Work item 1) and extending them (Work
> item 3).
> Although IFLA was unable to fund this specifically for ISBD, a more
> general
> approach for all IFLA namespaces is on the agenda for discussion by the
> IFLA
> Namespaces Technical Group in Helsinki in August (during the IFLA
> conference).
> So it would be great if general guidelines could be developed appropriate
> for
> IFLA, DCMI, and other organizations with potentially "open" namespaces.
> I'm sure
> IFLA will be happy to collaborate with the Community on this work.
>
>
> I see two directions in which an element set or value vocabulary can be
> extended. The first is refinement/"smart-up" to produce more granular
> properties, classes, or concepts, or more "constrained" versions of
> existing
> elements and concepts, or both. The second is to produce less granular or
> unconstrained "dumb-down" versions for mapping and other purposes. IFLA
> will
> also be considering the idea of unconstrained versions of its namespaces
> (that
> is, properties with no domains, ranges, or other semantic constraints) in
> Helsinki, rather like the proposed versions of the RDA properties which
> have no
> FRBR domains or ranges. Which begs the question: is DCMI considering
> something
> similar for the DC/terms properties, some of which have domains and
> ranges?
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
> [1] http://aims.fao.org/lode/bd
>
>
>
>
> On 04 June 2012 at 23:15 Diane Hillmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Folks:
>> A bit of an update, then down to business.
>>
>> We're anticipating that the recording of the Thursday meetings in
>> London
>> (April 26th, 2012) will become available within the next week or so. The
>> Seminar will be up soon after that. Apologies for the delay, but the
>> volunteers doing the work are busy people, and scheduling of editing
>> facilities can be difficult.
>>
>> I'm going to propose a couple of work items based on the discussions
>> we've
>> been having in this venue and in London, with an eye to getting some
>> additional conversations going (and commitments made) prior to the
>> summer
>> hiatus. Keep in mind that I'm putting these out as proposals, and would
>> really
>> welcome suggestions, comments, arguments, etc. This is not a one-woman
>> show,
>> I know I'm talking to a very knowledgeable group, and I'm not going to
>> be
>> happy with silence! In London we had two major topics on our agenda,
>> but as
>> those of you who were present can attest (and the rest will see when the
>> recordings are available), there was a great deal of wide-ranging
>> discussion
>> once the topics were introduced. I'm going to try to reflect those
>> discussions
>> in these proposals, but I welcome other views of what I may have
>> misinterpreted, left out, or poorly explained.
>>
>> My proposals for Task Groups are as follows:
>>
>> Work Item 1: Develop plan for a set of best practice guidelines around
>> vocabulary evaluation, selection, and re-use. Many of the relevant
>> questions
>> around these processes were articulated at the Special session in The
>> Hague
>> [1], and the Task Group's responsibility is to use these discussions to
>> set up
>> an outline for needed best practices documentation, as well as
>> reviewing,
>> evaluating and annotating any extant guidelines now available
>> (particularly
>> those consulted in their work). This group should be prepared to submit
>> a
>> discussion draft for the plan and outline to this group (preferably on
>> the
>> wiki) by the end of this calendar year, and a fully articulated plan and
>> outline by the following Spring (March 31st?). The model I have in mind
>> is the
>> best practices guidelines for OAI Data Providers [2], which had a
>> considerable
>> number of participants (and as many opinions) but still resulted in
>> useful and
>> coherent documentation, but there are certainly others worth consulting.
>>
>> Work Item 2: Examine and articulate the issues around vocabulary
>> sustainability and preservation and what role DCMI should play in this
>> area.
>> In a sense, sustainability is one of the criteria for evaluating
>> vocabularies
>> for use, but in a larger sense it's a critical issue for both vocabulary
>> owners and the larger metadata community. At the London meeting, Bernard
>> Vatant discussed some of his work, including an idea for a Vocabulary
>> Commons,
>> also featured in several of his blog posts. [3] [4] [5] For this item,
>> we ask
>> the Task Group to follow up on these ideas and initial discussions, and
>> lead a
>> discussion in this community intended to result in a recommendation for
>> action
>> by DCMI.
>>
>> Work Item 3: Develop a set of best practices for extending vocabularies
>> for
>> local use. One of the common problems we find when looking around at
>> metadata
>> using DC is that implementers have little guidance about what to do when
>> they
>> wish to extend DC or use DC terms in conjunction with local terms. The
>> resulting documentation could be part of the user documentation
>> currently
>> being updated. [6]
>>
>> [1]
>> http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DC-2011_Vocabulary_Special_Session/Meeting_Report
>> <http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DC-2011_Vocabulary_Special_Session/Meeting_Report>
>> [2]
>> http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/index.php/Main_Page
>> <http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/index.php/Main_Page>
>> [3] http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/03/lov-stories-part-1-commons.html
>> <http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/03/lov-stories-part-1-commons.html>
>> [4]
>> http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/03/lov-stories-part-2-gardeners-and.html
>> <http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/03/lov-stories-part-2-gardeners-and.html>
>> [5]
>> http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/04/lov-stories-part-3-vocabularies-as.html
>> <http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/04/lov-stories-part-3-vocabularies-as.html>
>> [6] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide
>> <http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide>
>>
>> Please some feedback! (And if you want to volunteer for something, feel
>> free
>> to discuss a possible role off-list)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Diane
>>
>>
>>
>
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