Difference between revisions of "Dec. 6, 2006"

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Agenda & Notes, Dec. 6, 2006

1. The usual naggy stuff:

• Report on Registry Blog, which is still down (Stuart)[Diane: Stuart has asked that we postpone discussion on this one]
  • Note that Jon actually put his stuff on his own blog
  • We need some better reports on "upness" (Jon)

• Report on Mirror and intermediary issues (Stuart & Jon)
  • Last week: Stuart reported that there was one little problem yet, weather problems had prevented getting things finished.

• Updates on discussions for new NSDL proposals (Stuart & Diane)
  • Diane reports that the action item from last week, modifying the first paragraph of the "two pager," was completed and sent to Stuart on Friday

• Note that the front page of the Registry now includes the new "Step-by-Step Instructions" and a link to the DC2006 paper (thanks to Jon)
  • Action Item: Diane will fix the screen shot of the front page in the instructions.
  • Old Action Item:Stuart will develop an outline for additional documentation (on the wiki)
  • Old Action item: Diane will move the vocabulary development links gathered for the Vocabulary Workshop to our wiki and Joe will add more if he wishes. (Not yet done)

2. New Items

• Report on UK Education Metadata meeting earlier this week (Diane)
• Report on discussion with Tom this morning on DC documentation and need for "institutional repository" (Diane)
• Joe has posted the announcement for the Second International Conference on Open Repositories. We should discuss whether anyone is or should be going.
• Report on discussion with Mike Luby on possible registration of BISAC vocabularies on the Registry (Jon)