A Vocabulary Working Group will be formed to further discuss the issues raised and recommend solutions. OCLC has been mapping Dewey to GEM vocabulary terms, which provides a more general viewpoint than GEM's educational specialist viewpoint. Stuart envisions Dewey as a metalanguage for GEM to map to. The next step is for GEM and OCLC to enter into a formal research agreement. As part of the research, ENC records have been translated into the IEEE schema and the developing geometry taxonomy has been applied.
Important issues are granularity and accessibility.
Issues include ambiguity of standards, and the lack of notation. John Kendell of McREL also noted that grandularity is problematic. McREL would like to work with GEM on this effort. The current Governance document states that Consortium members have the right to all the records in The Gateway for non-commercial use. Increasingly, what GEM is creating has value.