This page is based upon text submitted to the Interoperability Focus Advisory Committee, and represents a number of the main activities in the month of May. The list is not exhaustive, and comments and queries are welcomed.
Events attended
- Paul travelled to Canada once more, this time to the western province of
Alberta. He was a guest of the University of Calgary, and there to speak
with library, museum and archive interests from the university and more
broadly across the province.
- Paul travelled to Birmingham to speak at the public sector SPIN conference
for the second year running. This year, he spoke about XML Schemas and their
role within the e-Government drive within the UK.
- Paul attended a meeting of the e-Envoy's metadata working group. The
metadata framework is now public, and work proceeds on the Pan-Government
thesaurus, and upon the detail of the government metadata element set.
- Paul attended a meeting of Book Industry Communication's (BIC) Product
Metadata Group. The big issue is the growing internationalisation of the
ONIX standard, and its move from describing monographs towards multiple
media resources.
- Paul travelled to Glasgow for a meeting of the High Level Thesaurus
project's (HILT) steering group.
Paul travelled to Bath to participate in a review of the projects funded
under the joint JISC/NSF funding programme.
- Paul travelled to London to participate in a meeting of the Technology
sub-group of the Content Working Group of the Government's Broadband
Taskforce (!). This group of working groups are due to report over the
summer on the issues surrounding take-up (or otherwise!) of broadband across
the UK, and what should be done to encourage adoption.
- Pete travelled to Budapest to participate in the third workshop of the
SCHEMAS project, which concentrated principally on issues of multilinguality
in the management of metadata schemas and on the publication and management
of controlled vocabularies.
MEG Concord
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