attending: Selina, Anne Graham, Kate McNeill, Lisa Sweeney
purpose of discussion: a subgroup of the metadata dome advisory committee strike force is breaking down into smaller groups to discuss core elements for dome. Existing elements were developed base on work to get thesis into dspace@mit. Now expanding in hopes of developing a core set of elements that can be used for ALL datasets and avoid separate standards being used for similar projects. Standards are to be developed without considering any current limitations of DOME.
dome strikeforce - tom, ann, beverly
dome steering committee - mackenzie, steve, diane, sean
goal of this group: list of key suggested elements for data
robotics - amy suggest dublin core only because there are too many other descriptors in the field
ecology - gale steinhart at yale - stick with basic dublin core data; add additional data from specific metadata standard for file to a text file that is stored with the data - but not necessarily searchable; dspace currently does this
final product of group: To create a list of important metadata elements for data. This will be expressed through a table that relates this list of elements to different metadata standards (DDI, Dublin Core, FGDC, MARC, and other areas not yet defined (example: data ESL supports). In addition to the list of important elements this group can also recommend what should be indexed in DOME for searching.
Action items: Kate will start the excel spreadsheet with the important elements for social science data. it will be kept on the wiki as an attachments at: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBMETADATA/Metadata+tables+for+data+in+excel
Lisa will add a column of FGDC elements to the Excel file. Anne Graham will add additional data elements.
all versions of the excel file will be kept on the wiki and file names will be updated with the date of change (example: data_elements_091014.xls)