Monthly News

Events attended

• At the start of February, Paul attended the penultimate meeting of the steering group for the UK National Union Catalogue. There will be a Concertation Day at the end of February to gather community input to the final report.
• Paul spent a weekend at the start of the month in Madeira, attending meetings of the Dublin Core Advisory Committee. The meeting looked at reorganisation of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative in order to make it more effective, and to allow it a degree of independence from OCLC. Makx Dekkers, of PwC, has been appointed as project manager to move this forward.
• Paul attended the first meeting of a steering group for the cluster of DNER projects involved in enhancing the outputs of the existing JISC Data Centres for Learning and Teaching.
• Paul and Pete attended a meeting in Bath related to the ongoing UKOLN review. Paul additionally met with members of the review team in Hull.
• Paul attended an interesting meeting on the DNER Architecture in London. This study is being conducted by UKOLN, and the meeting was intended to gain input and comment from the broader community. The report from this study is due soon, and will make interesting reading.
• Pete attended a consultation workshop held by the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data and Related Materials (CHCC) project in London at the end of January.

Other

• Pete has been familiarising himself with the activities of Interoperability Focus in general, and the e-learning issues and the work of MEG in particular. He has been exploring the use of the DESIRE metadata registry for a small number of schemas/application profiles for educational resources.

MEG Concord

• released in December, the Concord now has 43 signatories. There's still plenty of space for signatures from some of your organisations...!