Feburary 14, 2024 Board Meeting

Attendees

• Aaron Elkiss (chair)
• Karin Bredenberg
• Tobias Steinke
• Juha Lehtonen
• Robin Wendler
• Bertrand Caron
• Andreas Nef (notes)

iPres

• Agreed to do a post, deadline for the abstract is May 15th. Focus?
  • Final public release of 2.0
  • General description
  • Advantages/motivation for 2.0
  • Graphcial structure of METS 2.0
• Later submit a post and a recording.
• Resources for Getting started/migration?

Profiles

• Aaron has been advancing on this.
• Version of the profile schema was already on 2.x, presumably leading to a bit of confusion.
  • METS2_profile.xsd (using mets2.xsd)
• Registration:
  • Should be less formal, not necessarily involve LoC
  • Template on github to upload
  • Review/check for formal correctness by the Board (not community review anymore?)
    • Would also allow to remove at least the REGISTRATION attribute
  • Leave METS 1 profiles on LoC website (as they are referenced)
• Documentation
  • Same as with the METS schema, i.e. documentation within the XSD.
  • Aaron is updating the documentation from the profiles and reviewing the registration process.

Primer

• The primer has been split and uploaded to the wiki. Suggestions are to be found in the google doc which is only for internal Board use.
• Examples should not be integrated into the primer but managed separately to be able to update/extend them more easily. Examples would just be fragments of an entire METS XML file (which are usually accompanying the profiles).
• Tobias could continue looking at chapter 1 and 2. Need a decision on what to do with chater 2, i.e. doing an entire example.
• Spliting chapter 3 into separte wiki pages based on recommendations
• Chapter 4 by Andreas (Inge?)
• Chapter 5 to be covered by Aaron in the context of the profiles.
• Chapter 6 maybe handled by Inge, touching on the question of vocabularies.