DCMI Vocabulary Management Community
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2011-10-28: This community was activated 2011-10-20. Diane Hillmann (proposer) has been named Interim Moderator to assist the new community in identifying co-chairs.
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DCMI Vocabulary Management Community
Proposer: Diane Hillmann
Chair: to be determined (volunteers welcome!)
Community Homepage: http://dublincore.org/groups/vocabulary-management/
To join the community list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-vocabulary.html
The DCMI Vocabulary Management Community is a forum and collaboration space for those interested in defining and documenting best practices for vocabularies, providing guidance for new practitioners, and promoting responsible change management. In addition, the Community will address design and quality issues in vocabularies and mappings in a modern Semantic Web environment.
Announcements
The DCMI Vocabulary Management Community will be holding its inaugural Meeting in London on April 26, 2012, in conjunction with the DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group. The meetings will be followed on April 27 by a seminar examining the impact of the London Meeting of 2007, which brought DCMI and the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC) together to build the RDA Vocabularies. The DCMI meetings will be free and open to all.
The full announcement of the meetings is available and the agenda for the meeting of this community will be developed on the wiki and the Community discussion list over the coming months.
The agenda for the 4/26/12 meeting is in development; reports of the meetings will be added as available.
Primary Activities
As part of the inaugural meeting planning, a small group organized by Mike Lauruhn is discussing issues around multilingual vocabularies. The group has put up a wiki page to support this activity which carries some links to standards of interest as well as reports of their telecons. The group will be gathering ideas and building proposals for work items to be discussed at the inaugural meeting of the Community.
Related activities
See also the Vocabulary Management System Task Group, a joint task group of the Architecture Forum and Registry Community tasked with (1) develop evaluation criteria for a DCMI vocabulary management system (VMS) that will meet current and future needs of DCMI; (2) assess existing candidate VMS applications based on the developed criteria; and (3) report its analysis to the Oversight Committee and Advisory Board along with its recommendation of one or two viable VMS candidates for replacing the current DCMI vocabulary management environment. The TG will also propose a community-driven approach to transition from the current to a new environment in light of its recommendations.
History
Diane Hillmann, Interim Moderator
DCMI Vocabulary Maintenance Officer
