2022 07 07 Board Meeting Notes

METS Board Meeting 2022-07-07

Attendees

• Karin Bredenberg
• Inge Hofsink
• Aaron Elkiss
• Juha Lehtonen
• Tobias Steinke (Notes)

iPres 2022 (12-16 September, Glasgow)

• The presentation will be in track "Online Innovation 1" on Tuesday
• Aaron is named as presenter, but will not be able to join remotely live. Maybe a recording might be provided.
• Inge, Karen and Juha will be in Glasgow, Tobias will join at least remotely

White paper

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xoWxotEE6O9T3lUtoIf3IksbA2D0j2GewIKKAiRVfpk
• No abstract needed; content of abstract could be reused for enhancement of introduction
• Word "manifest" is removed
• Related work is not needed
• The usage of "METS 1" is now consistent in all sections
• Juha enhanced the Files section
• The lists of attributes might be compressed (e. g. comma separated)
• All examples should look similar
• The White Paper should be moved to a GitHub page for publication
• Next steps: Clean-up and format, addition of another full, more complicated example with complex struct map (Juha will convert a real life METS 1 file to METS 2 for this)

METS Profiles

• A search at GitHub revealed many unregistered profiles
• There are probably over 1000 profiles
• Current profiles are useful and widely used
• Machine actionable profiles would be useful and were requested in the past, but are difficult to implement. Maybe later.
• METS Profiles should be available for METS 2 as well
• Continue with registration, but move the process to GitHub
• Although profiles are mostly free text, the XML structure makes sense as its sections are often used by other documentations and for own developments in Schematron
• Maybe registered profiles should get persistent identifiers
• We should get feedback on how profiles are used

-> August meeting

• Discuss feedback mechanism (METS 2, profiles)
• Examples (for transformation: Andreas, complex full example: Juha)
• Concepts for new overview, new tutorial, new profile XSD