5. Interoperability in practice

John put this question to the meeting-

"A key reason for maintaining consistency between NZGLS and Dublin Core is the capability for global interoperability. In practice, however, the principal usage of NZGLS has been within the Government portal / Metalogue environment. Interoperability and metadata exchange has been primarily between Metalogue and NZ Government portlets. Can the consistency with DC be better leveraged to support interoperability in practice? How? With whom should we be looking to interoperate?"

Douglas noted that NZGLS is only about resource discovery - it can't be expected to implement some functionality. His issue is that to have NZGLS compliant records the records need to have both FONZ and SONZ. John clarified this, saying that only the portal requires this, NZGLS demands any functional and subject headings. It could be time to revisit this to look at an 'or' situation like Australia has.

Action: John to draft a request for ideas about where NZGLS can add value and circulate it for input from interested parties e.g. North Shore City Council, ALGIM, LGNZ, Portal Community Group, Brendan Kelly in the health sector and AGLS.

Karen said that it should have a leadership role, looking at new terms and monitoring and responding. John said this is true for the working group, but still need to look at the standard.

Action: Gillian to write up notes about using NZGLS in a content management system, to explain what its value is.

Action: Victoria and Gillian to look into the quality issue. What it means and what others are doing.

11.00am Douglas Campbell left the meeting.

11.30am Janine Delaney came back to the meeting.