2021 07 15 Board Meeting Notes
The review process of our submission is still going on.
The structure and concept of COPTR was show in short presentations at an online event. Every entry is now more structured and all pages are interlinked. The METS page in COPTR (https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/METS_(Metadata_Encoding_and_Transmission_Standard)) is structured in two tables: "Tools that have this format as input" and "Tools that have this format as output". METS is listed as file format. It would be better to separate file formats and metadata formats, but METS is currently the only metadata format in COPTR.
The linking to COPTR from the METS web site is still not available. In fact non of the changes agreed on and sent to the LoC were done. The communication about this with the LoC is difficult, but Karin will try it again.
There was a public discussion about METS2 several years ago. As the ideas of that time were different than the current concept for METS2, people might be confused. But the "old METS2" was never published and the number of participants of the discussion at the conference were limited. The current METS is still known as METS and not as METS1, so if we officially announce METS2 this will be recognized as something new.
Doing this in a non-standard way might lead to problems. Therefore we decided to keep it like it is (datetime).
Aaron will draft a schema update to allow md directly under mdSec and likewise for file/fileSec.
Aaron gave us a few examples from the registered METS profiles for the use of OTHERLOCTYPE. Although non of these were very convincing, it is actually used in several use cases. We still think the implementation with OTHERLOCTYPE is not ideal. Aaron will think about an alternative way of doing it and put it in the schema draft.
These examples are more difficult to find. This will be discussed next meeting.
- Aaron to draft update to allow md directly under mdSec and likewise for file/fileSec
- Aaron to draft an alternative to OTHERLOCTYPE
- All to gather examples of how to represent things that are part of collections
- All to clean up and enhance the Google Docs