A subcommittee of Becky Culbertson, Shannon Hoffman, Sandy Roe, Bruce Trumble and Shelby Harken, chair, will develop a program proposal to be shared with the whole committee by April 1. Speakers should be proposed. Applications for the Library by Jean Hudgin, Grace Agnew and Elizabeth Brown. Robert Pillow discussed TEI, Text Encoding Initiative, and TEI Light used by the museum community. Shannon and Robert talked about ETD-ML which is a spin off of TEI and used for theses and dissertations.
Subject headings can come from the document itself or any thesaurus in a relevant discipline.
Becky Culbertson shared information about GILS, the EPA Government Information Locator, which allows the use of multiple thesauri for controlled vocabulary. Hopefully XML will revitalize GILS which languished because of being developed before the emergence of the web and the downsizing of government workers to work on the scheme. The project analyzed a number of metadata schemes in terms of environment of use, format issues, rules for the construction of elements, protocol issues and implementation. A typology of metadata formats includes simple, structured and rich. Robert, also, mentioned EDNA which uses the elements of the Dublin Core plus additional elements unique to this scheme.