Work package 1: Requirements
Tasks
Continue to collect use cases for interaction with the proposed catalog including both human access/interaction and machine access/interaction.
Analyze these (using the MIG template presented at RDA Plenary 6) for intersections and synergies leading to a definition of the requirements and technical specification for the catalog.
Timeframe
January – July 2016
Related content
MSCWG User Stories (Google Docs)
MSCWG Requirements Specification (Google Docs)
Work package 2: Development
Tasks
Do initial design and development of the Catalog system prototype based on already collected use cases, defined requirements and technical specifications.
Populate prototype system with sample records describing metadata standards and their relationships to organisations, persons, software, datasets, etc.
Refine prototype towards production status, taking into account late-arriving use cases and conversation with other RDA Groups (especially domain groups).
Identify potential adopters of the Catalog system.
Timeframe
July 2016 – January 2017
Related content
Data Model
- MSCWG Draft Data Model (Google Docs)
- MSC Prototype Data Model – this is the version used in the prototype Catalog.
Taxonomy of subjects, disciplines, fields of study
- MSCWG Disciplinary Taxonomy: Draft Proposal 1 (Google Docs)
- MSCWG Disciplinary Taxonomy: Draft Proposal 2 (Google Docs)
- After testing these and other alternatives, the prototype Catalog is using the UNESCO Thesaurus.
Prototype Catalog
- The source code for the prototype Catalog is being developed on GitHub.
- An initial set of records for the Catalog has been migrated from the Metadata Standards Directory for manual editing.
Production Catalog
Work package 3: Evaluation
Tasks
Evaluate the catalog against requirements and technical specifications with and by application domain communities of RDA and other potential adopters.
Validate the Catalog mechanisms for directing users to metadata standard(s) appropriate to their purposes.
Timescale
January – July 2017
Related content
Evaluation of the prototype Catalog against the Requirements Specification is being tracked on the GitHub issue tracker.
Work package 4: Cataloging
Tasks
Input standards to the catalog “as they are”.
Establish a priority list of standards in consultation with domain communities of RDA and other potential adopters.
Map a priority list of standards to/from metadata packages defined by the Metadata Interest Group, and add these mappings to the Catalog.
Timescale
May – July 2017
Related Content
Records
- The starting point is the set of records migrated from the Metadata Standards Directory
Work package 5: Engagement and dissemination
Tasks
Hold group meetings at RDA Plenaries.
Report on outcomes at Plenary 10.
Produce final report as recommendation output.
Timescale
January 2016 – July 2017
Related content
Plenary 6: notes from the MSCWG meeting
Plenary 6: agendas and slides from the joint meetings involving metadata groups
Plenary 7: slides and notes from the joint metadata groups meeting
Plenary 8:
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Breakout 2: Elixir Bridging Force IG, BioSharing Registry WG, Data Type Registries WG, MSCWG
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Breakout 8: BioSharing Registry WG, MSCWG, RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG
Plenary 9:
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