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Subject: Re: [tm-pubsubj] Call for vote on new deliverable structure


Steve Pepper wrote:
 > At 17:42 14/06/02 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote:
 >
 >>> To me it sounds as though the first deliverable will contain very
 >>>  little in the way of real substance ...
 >>
 >> Yes, there will be "very little" substance in that first
 >> deliverable, and that's exactly what we need. The less we have
 >> there, the better we are, because it will show that making a PSI is
 >> very simple if you want to just meet requirements, and that
 >> requirements are very few for PSIs to start to work. All the rest :
 >> format, structure, metadata, management, use ... is optimization,
 >> and I consider now it should stay at the level of recommendations
 >> and best practices, with no requirements in it.
 >
 > Hear, hear! These were exactly the sentiments that motivated me to go
 >  back to "first principles" during the meeting in Barcelona. The
 > basic stuff doesn't have to be complicated, and it's important that
 > we get that fact across, very clearly.

On the basis that if I can understand it, even librarians can :-)

I agree completely, my only reservation is that as the normative
content is small (we *recommend* but do not *mandate* :-) it's
goinjg to be extra-important that we provide plenty of simple
examples, possibly in different formats, when we get around to
the finer detail.

///Peter



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