Glossary and User Guide Task Groups - Telecon - Report
http://dublincore.org/groups/userguide/2010/2010-09-28.dcglossary-telecon-report.html

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Attended: Tom, Mary, Stefanie, Marcia
Regrets: Pete

1. User Guide (Stefanie)

   http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/UsingDC
   http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/CreatingMetadata
   http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/PublishingMetadata

   Stefanie wonders whether, given the focus on DCMI Metadata Terms and
   their use in Linked Data, it really is necessary to have a section on 
   concrete syntaxes (one of the topics covered in the User Guide). She
   will discuss with Pete.

   Tom wondered whether one might want to make the point
   somewhere early in CreatingMetadata that the data value one
   "enters" in the form, as a cataloger, is not necessarily
   what will go into data itself, nor is it necessarily what
   the end user will see presented on-screen. For example,
   a cataloger may enter a URI for a subject heading (perhaps
   via a pull-down menu of labels), and the user might only
   see the label of that heading. Stefanie will consider.

2. Glossary and FAQ

   Opinion on the call tended towards having one list which
   includes both current and obsolete technology. If they were
   divided into two lists, then people going to the glossary
   to look a term would not necessarily know in which list to
   look. Legacy or archaic terminology can be marked as such.

3. Agenda for Tuesday, 21 October, 14:00-15:30
   http://www.asis.org/Conferences/DC2010/program-sessions.html#userdoc

   14:00-14:30 User Guide
   14:30-15:00 Glossary and FAQ - entry by entry
   15:00-15:30 Other:
               -- Cross-references and redundancies among User Guide, Glossary, FAQ
               -- Form of publication (wiki document?)
               -- Next steps, work plan

   Tom proposes:
   -- Agenda to be posted on dc-glossary and http://dublincore.org/groups/userguide/
   -- By 13 October, all links on agenda copied into one PDF file and posted

   General concern that ninety minutes will not be enough for
   good, substantive discussion. Mary and Stefanie happen also
   to be the organizers of a Libraries Task Group meeting all
   day on Wednesday [1]. Discussion of User Guide examples,
   property by property, would arguably fall into the scope
   of that meeting, so we could use the Tuesday meeting more
   for Glossary, FAQ, and introductory sections of the User
   Guide -- and more generally for planning the finalization,
   review, and publication of the documents.

   The alternative would be to try to squeeze in more meeting
   time on Tuesday -- e.g., a working lunch from 12:30 to
   13:30 or after the final session, 17:00-18:00.

   Everyone on the call agreed to Tom's suggestion to continue
   discussion on the dc-glossary list. Tom will compile a
   PDF meeting packet on Wednesday, 13 October, including
   all of the texts to be discussed.

   [1] http://www.asis.org/Conferences/DC2010/program-sessions.html#librarytaskgroup