2023-10-30 Metadata meeting notes

5 mins

Housekeeping

• Volunteer to take minutes?

• Volunteer to serve as chair-elect / chair for next year?

  • I will ask at every meeting until we get one…

25 mins

Overview of import/export work

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uBWibkBRy3o39sZf8cQfNDiCZ7v36Hds/edit?pli=1#gid=2022215819 (Google Docs)

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12qxgYtkGi21FeEXbIcekQowVaxZvRWmCRiZvvlGE58U/edit#gid=1527709562 (Google Docs)

Review spreadsheet structure for the benefit of Jacqueline and Diane

Recap of past work (returning members)

Should we continue to work on EAD export as our main priority at the moment?

Should we devote time to MARC work, beyond the active Jira tickets?

How do we feel about our documentation? Do we want to revise any of it, or create more / better documents?

25 mins

Other workplan projects

• What is our plan for documentation? What tools do we want to use, and how do we want to use them? How should they relate to one another?

• User engagement: Do we only want to check the pulse of the community about their metadata needs/concerns, or do we have specific questions we want to answer?

• Do we want to work with any specific sub-teams on the Advisory Committees on this?

• How can we open a communication line between ourselves and the user community?

5 mins

Action items and next steps

Next meeting is scheduled for November 27 – will people be able to attend? Or should we move it to December? (11/27 is the Monday after Thanksgiving.)