Descriptive Metadata Working Group

Members

• Carolyn Hansen, facilitator (Univ. of Cincinnati)
• Nick Ruest (York University)
• Jenn Colt (Cornell University)
• Chrissy Rissmeyer (UC Santa Barbara)
• Steven Folsom (Cornell University)
• Lisa McAulay (UCLA)
• Esmé Cowles (UC San Diego)
• Arwen Hutt (UC San Diego)
• Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)
• Adam Walsh (Durham University)
• Eric James (Yale University)
• Corey Harper (New York University)
• Robert Cole (University of Alberta)
• Danny Pucci (Boston Public Library)
• Kelcy Shepherd (Amherst College)
• Daniel Enright (Symplectic)
• Dave Budenberg (Symplectic)
• Steven Anderson (Boston Public Library)
• Bill McMillin (Univ. of Cincinnati)
• Cathleen Lu (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• Critchlow, Matthew (UC San Diego)
• Maggie Dickson (old account) (Duke University)
• Juliane Schneider (UC San Diego)
• Alex May (Tufts University)

Initial Goals

• Collect user stories (goal of having something to present at Hydra Connect)
• Best practices on handling blank nodes and nested attributes - see also Fedora-tech discussions
• Best practices on using multiple schemas/vocabularies
• Base descriptive metadata application profile with mappings to Shared Data Model and community standards such as Dublin Core and/or DPLA Metadata Application Profile

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

Proposed: 1pm EST, alternate Wednesdays that main group is not meeting

First Meeting: May 13th

https://hangouts.google.com/call/bat5imirxfdzbkeq23uze2ljzae