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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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