[DDI-CDG] Conference call doesn't work

[Reto Hadorn]

Dear all,


At the last telephone conference, Wendy has underscored that the SRG 
expects nicely formatted data element lists to consider proposals for 
extension. You know how I think about simple lists: it is important to 
share concepts in the first place. So I started with the concepts, and 
forgot a bit of the list.

Wendy put me back on the SRG track and I worked out the Excel list. You got 
it already; I attach it to this message again. Actually , it is just an 
annex to the kind of document form, which Oliver has completed and 
submitted to discussion.

Working on the data elements, I was disturbed by some discrepancies between 
the text prepared by Oliver for the group proposal and the approach I have 
chosen to take. I think that this is due to the fact that Oliver covers all 
issues considered in the group in various conferences, meetings and 
settings. On the other hand, I make epistemological and methodological 
choices in my proposal, which don't support some of the approaches 
considered in Oliver's paper.

The text we have discussed in the last TC is actually a good summary report 
of all the considerations that were expressed in the group. In this form, 
it is not a proposal yet; the first version appropriately stated that no 
specific metadata elements could be proposed. The demand I made to Oliver, 
to include the Wackarow wrapper and my RC-NS proposals was inappropriate; 
sorry for that. In any case, the RC-NS idea gives flesh only to a part of 
the ideas considered in the group.


So, I have gone through the template, and completed the various topics so 
they are congruent with the RC-NS proposal and its postulates, in the first 
place to know how it would look like. It is presented as a proposal 
produced (funded) by SIDOS and the MetaDater. The members of the CDG come 
to play as sponsors; I actually felt interest for the proposal, so I just 
took the full list of members as sponsoring partners, as Oliver did. If 
some of you think the proposal is not appropriate, they can request to be 
withdrawn from the list. In my view, this does not imply that no other 
proposal formulated in the group can be sponsored: in my view, the field is 
complex enough to make it reasonable to sponsor more than one proposal! 
Nothing in the Alliance rules seems to oppose to that.

Hence my proposal: I deposit the RC-NS proposal in a consistent form, and 
Oliver delivers his overview report. I did not hear about Joachim, who sits 
in the SRG anyway...


Reto


P.S. By the way, there is nothing new, neither in the Excel file or in the 
proposal attached. I have just transferred the information from pages 50 
and ff. from the general text to the sheet, to comply with the CDG standard...

The rest of the package: 
http://info1.za.uni-koeln.de/ddicdg/documents/RCNS_050706.zip


At 14.09.2005, you wrote:
>To all of you who are waiting!
>
>I haven't been called so far by UoM's call center, but I think that's not 
>too bad, since Reto has provided us with a lot of food for thought, which 
>I at least have to digest first. How about postponing the call to next 
>Tuesday? Until then we can gather comments and questions.
>
>Oliver.
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