2022 05 26 Board Meeting Notes

METS Board Meeting 2022-05-26

Attendees

• Karin Bredenberg
• Inge Hofsink
• Aaron Elkiss
• Juha Lehtonen
• Robin Wendler
• Andreas Nef (Notes)

iPres 2022 (12-16 September, Glasgow)

• Submission was accepted.
• No edits required, some inputs from the reviewers: https://inconference.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/ipres-2022/paper-submission/Presentation/Update/31850c32-e85c-4d04-a7be-d046cae0020c?draft=False
• Karin, Inge and Juha are definitely attending and will sign up to present.

White paper

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xoWxotEE6O9T3lUtoIf3IksbA2D0j2GewIKKAiRVfpk

Roadmap for METS 2 work:

• By September we need to:
  • Have the white paper finished & published in github
  • Add full worked examples for METS1 vs. METS2
  • Consider a simple transformation for at least some parts of METS1 to METS2
  • Set up a way to provide feedback (outside of just GitHub)
  • Have a plan for the METS profiles and be able to answer questions about that

-> July meeting

• Have a cleaned-up draft of the white paper & discuss that
  • Aaron will incorporate changes from white paper ~ June 1st
  • Andreas, Juha, others will review in June
• Discuss METS profiles (Karin)

-> August meeting

• Discuss feedback mechanism
• Discuss examples, overview & tutorial, transformation?

Tasks

• Create an XSLT transformation and/or other tools to aid in migration from METS 1 to METS 2
  • Not worth spending a lot of time on this before September if the schema is not final, but could start a rough draft once white paper is in good shape
• Update the METS primer and tutorial for METS 2
  • The overview & tutorial https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v3_en.html is relatively short and it might be worth drafting a revision there
    • Perhaps worth a revision once white paper is in good shape
  • The primer https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSPrimer.pdf is much more work -- would need to divide up the work; would be worth moving to GitHub and splitting it into pieces. Best to wait for a more finalized version.
• Publish vocabularies for attributes whose allowed values are no longer encoded in the schema
  • Can pull out the existing values from the METS1 schema and draft these in github wiki at least
  • Question if we can put those on the LOC web site - Bertrand has been working with that for PREMIS, so might be possible to do it in the same way.
• Review and update the METS profile schema to support METS 2
  • Should at least discuss whether we want to keep the profiles or not and have a plan
  • Should ask whether people find value in these
    • Perhaps as a registry of organizations using METS in some way
    • Not much value for information exchange
  • Could see what the usage of the profile schema is that's out there but not registered
    • Karin says -- yes, she has written a new profile recently...
  • Updating the profile schema itself should wait

Brian and Jukka

• Brian and Jukka step down from the board.
• Need to update the website and mailing list.