On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:30:27PM -0500, Rebecca Guenther wrote:
> My understanding of this group's interest is to be a general forum for
> discussion about preservation metadata. The relationship to Dublin Core
> terms is questionable, since most preservation metadata is not descriptive
> metadata.

Understood.  This is why I distinguished between "preservation
metadata" (the scope of which should be described in a sentence
or two) and a broader "preservation context" (for which
good-practice guidelines for the descriptive metadata might in
principle be within scope).  I raise this because the group
is not called "DCMI Working Group on Preservation Metadata"
but (less specifically) "DCMI Preservation Working Group".

I am not suggesting that the group necessarily broaden its
charter to include descriptive metadata -- merely that the
charter characterize "preservation metadata" for the benefit
of people new to the topic.

Tom


> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > It would perhaps be helpful to start the charter with a
> > statement describing the scope of the group in somewhat more
> > concrete terms -- what is "preservation metadata"?
> >
> > A scope statement would help me understand to what extent the
> > group would want to discuss good-practice guidelines for using
> > resource descriptions based on DCMI terms (e.g., Dublin Core
> > application profiles) in a preservation context -- an activity
> > which would not seem to fall under the three points below.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:42:44PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> > > I know we have been a bit silent and we apologise for that. We now need to
> > > agree on the WG charter for sending to the Advisory Board for ratification.
> > >
> > > Charter
> > >
> > > This group is a discussion forum for individuals and organizations
> > > interested in or implementing preservation metadata. The group will:
> > > 1. collect information on and review existing preservation metadata
> > > schema
> > > 2. investigate the need for domain specific preservation metadata
> > > schema (e.g. Archives, Libraries, Scientific Data), and
> > > 3. liaise with other global preservation metadata projects such as
> > > PREMIS, as appropriate.

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