Grahm,
the problem you cite about getting into the core at the right level is a
serious problem, and is for any listserv based activity. As Carl said,
watch for the workshop report, and I hope that last weeks
re-organization of the homepage will repersent the begining of much
stronger user-education efforts. I think for the first time we are on
the threshold of actually being abkle to provide coherent advice to new
implementors... almost. One of my hopes for DC-5 is that it will lead
to a re-vitalization of a group started at DC-2 meeting and which
foundered on the shoals of too-many-open-issues.
One way we hope to capture higher-level discussions is through the
Issues Page... people are encouraged to 'own' an issue and assume
responsibility for summarizing discussion and synthesizing consensus
positions.
On Monday, September 29, 1997 9:35 PM, Carl Lagoze
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> Graham,
>
> Sorry for the recent flood of information - its certainly rather
> overwhelming for those trying to track significant trends. As you
might
> have surmised, we're all warming up for a three day meeting in
Helsinki
> next week. Lot's of jockeying going on to get our important issues on
> the table for the meeting.
>
> Stu Weibel, who organizes these meetings, has been really great at
> getting us to put the results of these meetings into coherent written
> reports. I'd stay tuned after next weeks meeting to see where the
> meeting reports are published. They should be definitive
documentation
> of advances in the "state of the art".
>
> You might want to tune out or coarsely filter the traffic until then.
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Starkey [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 1997 8:47 PM
> To: 'meta2'
> Subject: Lists, and levels of discussion
>
> I have an interest and a need to keep in touch with developments
> in the Dublin Core work and any other metadata developments, but the
> level of detailed conversation within this list is too low and
> voluminous for me. There is a high volume of messages which I have
> neither the time nor the background to contribute to, but I wish to
keep
> track at a layer below occasionally looking at a web site just in case
> it's changed.
>
> Is there a solution?
>
> Graham Starkey
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