F2F Meeting, 4/28/06, Seattle

Registry Project Meeting, Seattle, 4/28/06

1. Review of current work and progress

2. General open questions and issues:

How do we deal with the Super Properties? For instance, do we allow people to add things labelled as "Notes" or do we require them to choose among the subproperties (definition, changeNote, etc.) This is also an issue with imported files.
Is historyNote a good place to put term sources, such as we've defined in the NSDL Learning Resource Type vocabulary? We're thinking that the use of skos:inScheme should wait until we do term mapping.
In the NSDL vocabularies, we've listed the sources of definitions but there's no place to put those in skos. We're thinking it might be a something we should propose?
Status: Jon and Diane have worked up a proposal on the use of a status property, and some suggested values. The proposal also includes some policy suggestions on how validation and review might work.

3. Versioning issues:

Melanie's paper on Versioning
Differences between "history" and "version" and how this translates into user services. How much will versioning be automated? How much will we rely on snapshots? Will there need to be a distinction between automated snapshots and "intentional" versions? If so, how will we reflect those differences?
Representing both history and version in the user interface

4. Joe's role with the project (should he choose to have one!) Possible focus on identified gaps and issues with SKOS?

5. Technical Issues:

The URI issue: Should we use our own domain or purl.org? [Note: Decided to use metadataregistry.org]
The hash/slash issue (Jon)
Do we need to include all the SKOS properties in this release? Not sure we understand how all of them would be used! This relates to some extent to the superproperties but there are also some subproperties we have questions about. (Diane will distribute a spreadsheet which specifies some areas of concern.)