I have been lax in providing information on service descriptions because we do not have anything definitive from the Government of Canada. However, some very interesting work has been going under the leadership of the Canada Business Service Centres, http://www.cbsc.org/ , a cooperative arrangement among 43 federal business departments, provincial, territorial governments.
A web page is available with information about the CBSC XML service discovery proof-of-concept project. Here you will find an overview report on the approach to service description, the draft schema, and the accompanying documentation, as well as an online "wizard"-a templated authoring environment that generates XML instances and shows how a single instance can be transformed for different discovery purposes.
http://www.cbsc.org/xml
Userid: cbsc
Password: xml
The CBSC contribution was from the perspective of a multi-channel, interjurisdictional information service provider.
The project lead is:
Jane Stewart
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Tel | Téléphone (613) 954-4966
Fax | Télécopieur (613) 954-5463
Canada Business Service Centres - National Secretariat
Centres de services aux entreprises du Canada - Secrétariat national
Industry Canada 235 Queen St. Ottawa ON K1A 0H5
Industrie Canada 235, rue Queen Ottawa ON K1A 0H5
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
http://www.cbsc.org
Work on this project is continuing and your comments would be welcome.
Nancy
Nancy Brodie
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Information Management Division, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Division de la Gestion de l'information, Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada
2745 Iris St., 4th Floor | 2745, rue Iris, 4e étage | Ottawa Canada K1A 0R5
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Subject: Draft agenda
Here is the current draft agenda for the Working Group meeting in Shanghai.
John
Draft Agenda: DC-GOVT WORKING GROUP MEETING
Shanghai, China
15:30, 11 October 2004
1 Introductions
2 Review of 2003/04 Workplan
see http://www.dublincore.org/groups/government/ for details of the
2003/04 workplan
3 Round-up of e-Government initiatives
An opportunity to share developments in different jurisdictions in
regard to the use of Dublin Core
4 CEN EU e-Government Metadata Framework development
see http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/
businessdomains/isss/activity/ws_zaragoza_spain.asp
5 Service Description Using Dublin Core
Document for discussion to be distributed prior to meeting
6 Controlled Vocabularies
7 Charter for 2004/05
Current charter text:
" The Government working group is a forum for individuals involved in
implementing Dublin Core within and between government agencies
and International Governmental Organizations (IGO's).
The working group will identify commonalities in current public
administration metadata implementations, and make
recommendations for future DC qualifiers and/or extensions,
etc. The working group will cooperate with other international
standardization initiatives as appropriate and when benefits
for the working group can be readily identified."
8 Workplan for 2004/05
