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Subject: [stdsreg] straw man metadata
Standards Registry participants: Here's a straw man proposal for a metadata. (This is pretty much the same as I sent out in an earlier email.) This proposal is based heavily on the NSSN registry hosted by ANSI (www.nssn.org), which uses the ISO ICS classification (www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList). The top portion describes the standards development organization (SDO) and the bottom portion describes each current effort or completed specification. The idea is to have the simplest set of fields that will usefully describe standards development efforts and completed specifications. SDO name SDO acronym SDO address SDO phone SDO fax SDO E-mail SDO URL SDO Contact SDO acronym (a relational link to the SDO info above) SDO's Committee/subcommittee/working group Committee's URL Committee Contact name Document title Document number Scope/abstract/problem space Taxonomy/classification (ICS?) Keywords Current status (proposed | in progress | prelim. approval | final approval) Project initiation date Approval date Referenced standards Equivalent standards Superceded standards Previous versions Format Price Available from Since I first sent out this proposed metadata, I've received a few comments: - A suggestion that the four generic status stages be called: new work item proposal, draft preparation stage, awiting formal approval, and published specification - A suggestion that we need to define or select a set of keywords, just as we define or select a taxonomy - A question wether ICS is really the best classification scheme. Can/does it cover new, popular topics such as e-business and web services without just lumping everything into the single IT category? - A suggestion that we take advantage of Dublin Core for ontologies of document properties and VCard for contact information - A suggestion that we rely on recommendations for registry metadata from ISO 11179 - A suggestion that we look at the DAML.org website for a registry of ontologies - A suggestion that we look at what has been done at Diffuse.org - A question about what syntax to use for the metadata, whether XML, UML, some database schema, or other I think that these are all good questions and suggestions, and should be considered by the committee. </karl> ================================================================= Karl F. Best OASIS - Director, Technical Operations 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
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