On behalf of the Managing Director, I would like to announce
the availability for review and public comment of several
proposals to the Usage Board.
There is one proposal from the DCMI Accessibility Working
Group:
-- DCMI Accessibility proposal for an Element:
http://www.ozewai.org/DC-term-proposal/prop-reqs-table2.html
There are six proposals from the DCMI Collection Description
Description Working Group:
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for a Vocabulary Encoding Scheme:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-DCCDAccrualMethod/
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for a Vocabulary Encoding Scheme:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-DCCDAccrualPeriodicity/
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for a Vocabulary Encoding Scheme:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-DCCDAccrualPolicy/
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for an Element:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-accrualMethod/
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for an Element:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-accrualPeriodicity/
-- DCMI Collection Description proposal for an Element:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-accrualPolicy/
-- DCMI Education proposal for an Element:
-- DCMI Accessibility proposal for an Element:
And there is one proposal from DCMI Education Working Group:
-- DCMI Education proposal for an Element:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/8-28-04/index.html
In accordance with the Usage Board Administrative Processes,
these proposals are available for a public comment period of
one month - in this case, until Monday, 4 October 2004.
Comments or expressions of support should be posted on an
appropriate DCMI working-group mailing list [1,2,3] or on
DC-General with the title of the document in the subject,
as in:
Subject: [UB Proposal "Accrual Method"]
The DCMI Usage Board "shepherds" for the above proposals are:
-- Stuart Sutton <[log in to unmask]> - for the Accessibility proposal
-- Andrew Wilson <[log in to unmask]> - for the Collection proposals
-- Akira Miyazawa <[log in to unmask]> - for the Education proposal
Tom Baker, Chair, DCMI Usage Board
[1] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-accessibility.html
[2] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-collections.html
[3] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-education.html
--
Dr. Thomas Baker [log in to unmask]
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