Dear All,

My apologies for the delay in posting this to the registries list. This 
information is also available on the Registries Community page at:
http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/DCMI_Registry_Community

Regards,
-- 
Corey A Harper
Metadata Services Librarian
New York University Libraries
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New York, NY 10003-7112
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*** 2011 Work Plan ***

The following work plan for the DCMI Registries Task Group is based on 
discussions at the DC2010 meeting in Pittsburgh as well as other 
conversations.

1. December-February: Complete report from survey of Registry 
developers, administrators and end users (Corey). Versions of report to 
be prepared for both publication and posting on JISC/DCMI Web Sites.

2. January-April: Review current Use Case and Functional Requirements 
documents. [1,2,3] Invite discussion on Task Group and Community Lists 
as to how to move these documents forward. Consider separating general 
functional requirements and use cases from documents specific to NSDL 
Registry (now Open Metadata Registry). Instead, focus on general 
functional requirements as determined in survey results and DC2010 
face-to-face meeting in Pittsburgh. [4] Additionally, identify most 
desirable inter-registry interoperability functions such as automatic 
cross-registry updates and metadata schema / value vocabulary harvesting 
(Corey, Diane, Emma, Jon).

3. March-July: Begin planning for test implementations of inter-registry
interoperability functionality. Initially, focus testing on
interoperability between the Open Metadata Registry and the JISC IEMSR.
As work wraps up on the Metadata Information Infrastructure Project at
Infocom and University of Tsukuba, extend testing to Dublin Core
Registry and Japanese Metadata Infrastructure Project Registry (Corey,
Emma, Jon, Mitsuharu). Most pre-DC2011 work will be test planning, with
testing continuing into 2012.

4. August-September: Before DC2011, invite additional participants to 
interoperability testing through follow-up with Survey Respondents and 
via Community & Task Group listserves.

Two to three conference calls should be held in the spring for planning 
and assessment of tasks 2 and 3.

[1]http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/Inter-registry_use_cases
[2]http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/Common_requirements
[3]http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/Inter-registry_functional_requirements
[4]http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/Registry_Meeting_Notes%2C_DC-2010