Hello all,

At the risk of repeating some things that Juha has already explained, 
here is my understanding of the ISO process over the next six months from 
the standpoint of the Usage Board.

On July 12, the ISO TC 46/SC 4 secretariat (in Finland) started a "committee
draft vote" on ISO 15836-2.  The current ISO draft [1] is still a "committee
draft" (CD), so it is not yet expected to be mature.  The Usage Board can
continue to make changes. Juha will continue to update the ISO draft
accordingly and will double-check the changes with me.  As I receive the
updated drafts, I will post the latest one to the protected Github repository.

In parallel, the CD vote will last until about 21 September.  Juha is
encouraging the ISO WG on Dublin Core to make further suggestions -- this is in
the spirit of the ISO process -- so we may get new issues to discuss.  The
Usage Board will have final say on approving any such issues.

This parallel ISO WG on Dublin Core of about twenty people has some overlap
with the Usage Board, as Sarah belongs to both.  Most of you probably also know
Eric (Childress), Leif, and Liddy (Nevile). Akira Miyazawa is a former member
of the Usage Board.

In October and November, after the CD vote closes, the ISO TC 46/SC 4
secretariat will prepare a Draft International Standard (DIS) version on the
basis of Usage Board decisions.  It will also collect remaining comments from
SC 4 voting members and the ISO WG for Dublin Core into a single document and
pass them to the Usage Board for decisions.  

Juha may correct me, but I take it that the DIS document we receive in October
or November will actually be a _draft_ DIS (or "draft Draft International
Standard") because decisions and changes will still be expected.  This fits
with my understanding that we now have six months, maximum, to produce the DIS
(Draft International Standard), which I take to mean "December 2018".  

It is only when DIS or FDIS has been officially "published" -- i.e., released
not to the world, but within the boundaries of the ISO process -- that the
document is expected to be stable.  In principle, major changes (even new
properties!) will be possible even on the DIS, though we really want to avoid
that.  

A vote on the DIS will then start in the wider ISO community.  If there
are zero "no" votes on the DIS, the DIS can be directly published as the
ISO standard (though still with minor modifications in non-normative
parts).  

Juha may correct me, but if the DIS is published in December, I guess
the DIS vote would also take two or three months, so I take it that
publication of the international standard would happen at the earliest
in the second quarter of 2019.

Once the ISO standard is published, it will be valid for five years or
until an ISO member makes a new work item proposal to revise the
standard.  

According to Juha, the development of ISO 15836 could become a
continuous process, that is, SC 4 could decide to keep the working group
alive even after ISO 15836-2 has been published. In Juha's opinion, the
publication of ISO 15836-2 could be not an end, but just an intermediate
step towards future DC versions. 

Because of how the ISO standard is being constructed, all Dublin Core
properties and definitions will be available free of charge through the
ISO Open Browsing Platform [2].

Tom

[1] https://github.com/dcmi/iso15836-2/blob/master/drafts/ISO_CD_15836-2_2018-07-12.pdf
[2] https://www.iso.org/obp/


-- 
Tom Baker <[log in to unmask]>

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