Schedule of Action Points

1. 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). (Carried forward from the last meeting)

2. Sara Barham to organise a demonstration of Metalogue2 for the working group

3. Sara Barham to put forward a framework for a joint meeting meeting re "superservice" or "process" between the Working Group and SSC. The meeting will be scheduled in the next 3 - 4 weeks

4. Working Group to give feedback on an element by element basis on how the Portal can make better use of NZGLS elements, feedback to be coordinated by Neil Sanson by end of June

5. Sara Barham to arrange a meeting re training material with John Roberts, Keitha Booth and Emma Findlater of SSC in the next week (by 23 May)

6. Sara Barham to ask Andrea Gray of SSC how far the E-government role extends in ensuring standards are adhered to or used beyond government sector

7. Sara Barham Set up meeting of Derek, Neil, Karen, John with Kent Duston of SSC and Douglas Campbell of the National Library to discuss use of NZGLS to describe metadata in a registry

8. John Roberts to make edits to revised NZGLS specification version 2.1 as discussed and recirculate

9. Neil Sanson to work on DocumentType and ServiceType encoding schemes with Keitha Booth. To be scheduled after the beginning of June

10. Beryl Anderson to offer Thesaurus Advisory Group the chance to sort out the Audience encoding scheme

11. Neil Sanson to work on formalising the Type category list as an encoding scheme

12. Derek Rayner to write a paper on the links and exclusions between the NZGLS and Geospatial systems

13. John Roberts to amend Terms of Reference to reflect Deputy Chair role