2018 03 22 Board Meeting

Minutes

Attending: Sean, Tobias, Aaron, Juha, Karin, Tom, Richard, Leah, Robin

Minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

Discussion Items

METS Primer as PDF

• PDF version is now available at https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-schemadocs.html

Proposal for METS Tutorial at iPRES

• Proposals for workshops and tutorials at iPRES 2018 are due 15 April
• A proposal for a METS tutorial will be submitted by Karin
• Karin, Tom and Juha will do the tutorial
• Tobias and Sean might be at the iPRES and could support
• There will be a proposal for a PREMIS tutorial by the PREMIS Board
• A Proposal for a Preservation Data workshop is planned
• The Preservation Data workshop will replace the PREMIS Implementation Fair workshop
• The workshop will be about PREMIS and about PREMIS with METS
• Besides the members of both boards (Karin, Bertrand), Robin will join the workshop team

XML schema for profile to github

• Tom -> moved

XML schema for profiles should include xml:lang for all string elements

• Tom -> moved

Issue 24: Possibly add xsd:anyattribute to the agent/note element

• Request is to add anyattribute to agent/note; use case is by Karin
• anyattribute could be added to all elements
• Probably restricted to certain top level elements to avoid misuse
• Needs a sub committee to examine implications of adding anyattribute to all elements, could be discussed at the Preservation Data iPRES workshop
• No objections to add anyattribute (just) to agent/note
• Tom will do a revision of the schema

Issue 25: Provide clarification of the METSRights schema

• Archives Portal Europe Foundation wants to do changes to the METSRights schema
• Originally named author is Nancy (METS board)
• METSRights is considered part of METS and therefore changes should be change requests to the METS Editorial Board
• Official statement needed that METSRights is part of METS
• Leah will look for other affiliated schemas that might be considered part of METS
• Tom will add statement and schema(s) to GitHub
• Karin will inform Archives Portal Europe Foundation that an official change request is needed

Philosophical question regarding how to describe the files contained in a zip-file

• How to describe the content of ZIP files (or in general container files) in METS?
• Comment by Juha: "ZIP file in fileSec and description of contained folders and files in structMap as div elements (type='dir'/type='file')? You could then link to techMD from div element for detailed information"
• containerMD could be used as extension schema
• METS profiles could be used to describe it; there are already several METS profiles for including container files
• There are different use cases, e. g. WARC files