[Esip-preserve] Arrangements for Collection Structure Telecon on Monday, June 17, at 2 pm EDT

Bruce Barkstrom brbarkstrom at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 13:23:22 EDT 2013


I think David Giaretta is on the Metadata WG for RDA and he's played a heavy
role in the group that produced the recent OAIS RM.  Might be wise to check.

Bruce b.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Parsons, Mark <parsom3 at rpi.edu> wrote:

>  Ruth
>
>  Do you know if the RDA data foundational technology group is addressing
> any of this? I can find out, but thought you might be directly in the loop.
>
> -m.
>
>  Sent from my iPad. Pardon my mistyped brevity.
>
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:24 AM, "Bruce Barkstrom" <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Please note the arrangements for next Monday's telecon:
> *2 PM EDT; MONDAY June 17
> *Details about connecting are in Erin's note that follows.
>
> Suggested Agenda:
> 20 min - Updates from Previous Telecon (same order and time limit)
> 30 min - Discussion of Rationale for discussing collection structure
>    to move toward answering some questions:
>
>       1.  The OAIS RM (ISO 14721:2012) provides a rather extensive
>             discussion of collection structure.  The review I provided in
>             Chapter 1 of the book chapters last time did not find as
>             extensive a discussion of collections in some of the other
>             possible standards to consult (notably FRBR).  Because the
>             RM appears to be widely accepted in the archival community,
>             it seems sensible to use the RM's structures as a starting
> point.
>
>             Are there other possibilities?
>
>       2.   The discussions we had of explorations of collection structure
>             for the NOAA Emergency Response Imagery collection and
>             collections of rock cores showed that current Earth science
>             data collections contain hierarchical or layered collections.
>             They also showed that Physical Objects in collections may
>             have more structure than the RM expected.  These observations
>             suggest that we may need to adapt the RM's collection
> structures
>             to adapt it to empirical observations of them.
>
>             Is it reasonable to adapt the RM to what we find - and if so,
> how
>             do we want to record the structures that seem to be needed?
>
>       3.  The RM ties the collection structures to an archive's inventory
>            of objects.  As the rationale that's attached suggests, that
>            kind of tie may be useful in dealing with audits and forensic
>            investigations, as well as using custodianship to quantify
>            information about how users actually search for information.
>
>            What do we want to do about the RM's suggested ties between
>            collection structure and the archive's inventory structure?  Is
> there
>            a strategy we can come up with to deal with this issue?
>
> 10 min - Discussion of strategy for moving forward.  Note the suggestion
>             on the second page of the attachment.
>
> Thanks to Erin for the telecon connection instructions.
>
> Bruce B.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>
> Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Arrangements for Collection Structure Telecon on Monday, June
> 17, at 2 pm EDT
> To: Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>
> Cc: Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov>, Ruth Duerr <rduerr at nsidc.org>
>
>
> Hi Bruce -
>
>  Here are the telecon details:
>
>
> To start or join the online portion of the meeting:
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>
>   * Click join next to the meeting name, Preservation weekly meeting (Note:
> If the
>     meeting has not yet started, join will not be visible, and it will
>     say 'Display Info'. Wait a minute and refresh screen)
>   * Enter your name and email address
>   * If you are asked for a password, enter the access code:
>     23138372 with no spaces or #.
>
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>
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>
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Erin, can you provide the details of the connection for Monday afternoon?
>> Even though I messed up connecting with the Preservation Cluster this
>> week, the telecon is still in the planning spreadsheet.
>>
>> I'd like to get those out to the participants later today, along with a
>> few
>> thoughts for them.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Bruce B.
>>
>
>
>   <Rationale.pdf>
>
>
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