Matthew Beacom announced the dates, times, and location for the course:

October 5, October 14, and November 7
9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall

ACTION: Youn Noh will schedule the class with the learning center.
ACTION: Beacom will draft an announcement that will be sent to Yulibl, the ITS mailing list, museum staff, and others likely to be interested in the course.
ACTION: Beacom will contact Nelinet regarding handouts for the course to determine who will have responsibility for preparing them and who has copyright.

The committee discussed revisions to the Powerpoint slides:

• XML - Example (Slide 19): Include a Yale example.
• XML Library Application (Slide 26): Replace with an example of an XML-encoded metadata standard such as MODS in the context of an application used at Yale, e.g., VITAL. NB: VITAL supports the display of TEI and MODS.
• XML vs. Traditional Database Software (Slide 27): Michael Appleby questioned the accuracy of the explanation provided, e.g., databases can accommodate variable field lengths. Joan Swanekamp requested that the presenter explain why one might choose one over the other.
• Categories (Slide 4): Include other metadata standards that are used at Yale or of interest to the Yale community: VRA, DDI, YES, SCORM. ONIX is questionable. Beacom reported that it is popular among publishers.
• DC Record in OCLC Connexion (Slide 49): Use a Yale example.
• OpenURL Example (Slide 94): Use a Yale example.
• Persistent Identifiers at Harvard (Slide 96): Delete.

The committee made general recommendations:

• Beacom suggested that greater contextualization is needed: the metadata standards need to be described in the context of how they are used and the applications they support.
  ACTION: Swanekamp will contact David Gewirtz for information on placing the following standards in the context of Fedora and VITAL: TEI, MODS, OAI, SOAP, and URNs.
• Edward Kairiss suggested that the committee create and maintain a glossary of metadata-related terms.
  ACTION: Jennifer Weintraub will prepare a glossary using the slides for the course in their current state. She will revise the glossary after the slides have been revised.

The committee recommended sources for Yale examples.

ACTION: Appleby will provide an example from the Online Magazine for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
ACTION: Rebekah Irwin will provide an example from the Beinecke Digital Collections.
ACTION: Beacom will contact the Arts Library for a YES example.
ACTION: Beacom will contact Katie Bauer for an OpenURL example.
ACTION: Beacom will contact Gretchen Gano for a DDI example.
ACTION: Beacom will collect the submissions and provide them to Amy Benson, the presenter from NELINET.

The committee will meet every other Tuesday from 3 to 4 pm. The next meeting is scheduled for September 20.

Beacom discussed his preliminary work on mappings and presented a mapping created by Irwin from YES to the metadata schema for the Beinecke Digital Collections.

Swanekamp asked Irwin to report on the Beinecke's investigation of a migration to MODS, including a project description and example records, for discussion at the next meeting.

At the next meeting, we will discuss Ann Caldwell's presentation on MODS, which the committee may sponsor as a course for Yale Library staff later in the year. Caldwell's home page also includes useful instructions for encoding MODS records.