Hi Developers / Committers, Tomorrow (Weds, March 20), the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is hosting a meeting on a proposal for DSpace Metadata Improvements (see email below)
Proposal: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry This meeting will be held at 20:00 UTC / 4:00 pm EDT via conference call (dial-in info below). Because of this meeting, we will NOT have a DSpace Developers Meeting via IRC. Instead, I'd encourage you to read the Metadata proposal and join this discussion. We'll resume our weekly IRC DSpace Developer Meetings next week, on March 27 @ 20:00 UTC. - Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: DSpace Futures Metadata Improvements Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:55:00 -0400 From: Valorie Hollister <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] CC: [email protected] Dear DSpace Community - As you may already be aware, DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has been working on a proposal to improve the metadata support in DSpace. The initial direction of this project was based on the results of a community-wide survey. The recent DSpace Futures discussions also highlighted the need for metadata enhancements. As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT has finished drafting a proposal that would lay the foundation for future improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard and ultimately implementing a fully functional DCTERMS metadata schema. The proposal also includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other standards and enabling a metadata infrastructure that supports other hierarchical and relational data structures. In folding this work into the DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort. The draft proposal can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry. Everyone from the community should feel free to add feedback in the "Comments" section at the bottom of the page (or any of the subpages). There will be a call to discuss the proposal on Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm EDT (20:00 UTC). DSpace committers, developers and members of the community are encouraged to participate. To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. - DSpace Community Advisory Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community Advisory Team" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace DuraSpace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
