The agenda and the report from the previous meeting were approved as written. Current development projects AES-X56 Preservation of Audio by Digital Storage. They will be drawing on the Dublin Core and other resources to draft a document that may become a standard. It was noted that all four of the members of the writing team are librarians who specialize in the sound collections.
Digital cinema uses four files to describe the born digital product.
It wants to know what archive metadata should be added to describe the digital object at the time of creation. A. Barton agreed to send a message to the reflector expanding on this theme and stating his concern about it. He indicated that he will attend the January 2001 meeting of the task group, will try to bring a representative from the digital cinema group as well. For the January meeting, Burton agreed to prepare a presentation on metadata consideration from the digital perspective. He also agreed to put on the FTP site the ten goals of Motion Picture Association.