DCMI Agents Working Group - 1998 charter
Agents Working Group - 1998 charter
Chair: Renato Iannella
- Review RFC 2413 and propose appropriate corrections and clarifications.
The working group should review RFC 2413 definitions for the elements CREATOR,
CONTRIBUTOR and PUBLISHER, and propose any corrections and clarifications for a
revision of RFC 2413. The resulting proposal should include proposed rewording
of the definitions and the reasoning to support the change, as well as
important counter arguments that emerge from the mailing list discussions. All
such recommendations should be made with the objective of enhancing clarity
while minimizing impact on existing applications. Working group members should
avoid proposing changes without clear evidence that such changes will correct
errors or improve the understandability previously agreed upon Dublin Core
semantics. This task is of the highest priority and should be completed within
4 weeks of establishing the working group.
- Recommend qualifier semantics for elements covered by the working group.
Working groups will solicit from implementers recommendations concerning
qualifier semantics for CREATOR, CONTRIBUTOR and PUBLISHER that have been found
to be useful in existing applications, and judged to be potentially useful for
a broad range of Dublin Core applications (and hence, important to promote
interoperability). These recommendations should be consolidated, discussed on
the list, and integrated into a syntax-independent prose recommendation.
Working groups should attempt to identify qualifier semantics (from existing
and proposed applications) that might have general usefulness for Dublin Core
applications.
in the charge of these Working Groups is the recognition that many schemes and
controlled vocabularies already exist and can be used in the existing
infrastructure (an example of this is the ISO 8601 Date profile that has been
agreed upon for encoding Dublin Core dates).
Target dates for deliverables will be negotiated with the DC Directorate,
balancing the need for thorough discussions on the one hand and the need for
timely progression the other. Scheduling the deliverables will help to avoid
the collision of many working group reports on the dc-general list at one time.