Hi Stu (et al),
January 1st 2000 as the deadline for an IT related project? Now that's
optimism. ;-)
Thomas
"Weibel,Stu" wrote:
>
> DC-metadata folk
>
> As many of you will have heard by now, the DC-7 meeting in Frankfurt was a
> productive meeting that will lead to important changes in scope and focus
> for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. I'll be detailing some of those
> changes soon, but certainly the keystone of the Frankfurt meeting was
> putting to bed the most important part of the 1999 Workplan: finalizing the
> initial set of DC Qualifier semantics.
>
> We have established a deadline for this goal: January 1, 2000
>
> To meet this goal we have to finish up the proposals, solicit comment, and
> approve them in the DC Advisory Committee.
>
> Towards that end, I encourage those of you who are inclined to participate
> to watch for the qualifier proposals to appear on their respective mailing
> lists and to comment on them.
>
> Proposals will be announced on both the relevant mailing lists and on
> DC-General with URLs pointing to the proposals. Those who would like to
> contribute to the discussions are encouraged to join the working group
> mailing lists at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk
>
> The timetable is as follows:
>
> ELEMENT QUALIFIER PLAN TIMETABLE
>
> The schedule for qualifier approval:
>
> Proposals to working group lists by November 12
> Discussion and revision of proposals November 26
> Discussion and Final revisions December 10
> Discussion and Approval by AC by December 24
>
> Stuart Weibel
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