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Issue Tracking

• Open Issues
• Closed Issues

Running Task List

• Active Tasks

Board Business

• Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Notes
• 2006-2015 Final Meeting Notes on METS LoC website
• Mission and [Board expectations - superceded]
• Board Membership Criteria
• Filling Board vacancies
• METS Schema Revision Process
• Proposed Changes to METS Schema Revision Process
• 2010 Schedule of Board Member Conference Attendance
• METS Profile Revision Group
• Agenda May

METS 2 Schema Design and Documentation

• Overview of proposed changes in METS 2
• Current draft METS 2 schema
• Examples of migration from METS 1 to METS 2

METS Documentation

• METS Documentation Errors List
• Draft Schema 1.8 with documentation aligned with Primer
• METS Primer (Revised)
• Stylesheet to generate documentation from a Schema:
• March 2010 edited version xsd2doc.xsl
• Original version: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/mets/schema_documentation/xsd2doc.xsl
• METS Overview and Tutorial in several languages

METS Documentation Work Group

• Created to write the METS Primer & Reference Manual, available in PDF at METS Primer & Reference Manual
• Thanks to members: Cecilia, Taylor, Merrilee, Susan, Rick, Nancy

Other METS Documentation Needed Suggestions from past Editorial Board meetings include:

1. METS Position Statement for Dissemination to DLF, METS Editorial Board member institutional leadership, General PUblic (see draft, above)
2. METS Implementation descriptions for possible D-Lib or other journal article
3. Re-write of Overview & Tutorial?
4. Overview of where METS fits into Digital Repository management
5. Marketing Plan
6. Education & Training Plan

Previous work and exploration towards METS 2 (2011-2015)

• Old working drafts of METS 2 schema design
• METS 2.0 Sandbox
• Reimagining METS: An Exploration for Discussion (April 2011)

Other

• METS website
• Procedures
• Schema Change Requests
• Rights status of external schemas for use with METS