10. Schedule of Action Points

1. Karen Rollitt to circulate (via John Roberts) minutes of the latest meeting of IT/19

2. Sara Barham and Keitha Booth to seek further information from the AGLS Working Group about the perceived value of issuing AGLS as an Australian standard.

3. John Roberts to contact Kent Duston to arrange a meeting regarding the relationship between Archives' GLADIS project and the EGU LDAP Directory project.

4. John Roberts to update documentation to indicate that personal names (where no encoding scheme is used) should preferably be represented lastname, firstname with a space after the comma.

5. John Roberts to update documentation to recommend that Source not be used.

6. Sara Barham and Victoria Wray will discuss possible implementation approaches for relating multiple metadata records with EGU colleagues and report back

7. Working Group to develop guidance for agencies on when it is preferable to create multiple metadata records and when it is preferable to use a single record to describe several related resources (or forms of a resource).

8. Sara Barham to confirm EGU participation in the Geospatial Metadata Standards Project Steering Committee

9. John Roberts to nominate Derek Rayner to represent NZGLS on the Geospatial Metadata Standards Project Team

10. Sara Barham to arrange for links to NZGLS related DC2002 Conference papers be made through the NZGLS webpage

11. Keitha Booth and Sara Barham to con firm National Library of Australia plans in respect of Metadata registry development with Warwick Cathro at the December AGLS WG meeting

12. John Roberts to confirm with Rachel Heery the development timetable and plans for the DCMI Registry.

13. Neil Sanson to draft a background paper on metadata registry issues and options, with reference to Karen Rollitt, John Roberts and Sara Barham.

14. Sara Barham to provide the notes from the meeting with Karen and Douglas to Neil.

15. Sara Barham, Victoria Wray, and Chris Daish to advise on the priorities for development of new, user-friendly products based on the NZGLS specification.

16. John Roberts to address issues raised by the Working Group in respect of the draft NZGLS specification, and polish this draft further, and recirculate for the Working Group to provide comment at a more detailed level.

17. John Roberts to add the qualifier Available for the element Date to NZGLS documentation.

18. Karen Rollitt to circulate relevant DC Usage board decisions to the Working Group.

19. John Roberts to amend documentation to show the use of W3C DTF and DCMI Period as best practice

20. John Roberts to explore with the Working Group ways of developing a paper on the possible enhanced use of the NZGLS elements by the Portal

21. John Roberts to circulate the current encoding schemes for Document Type, Service Type and Agency Type to the Working Group for review and comment.