Metadata process update

Thanks to some funding from the alt-media-res project, we now have a [http://shiftspace.cc/jamie/tx_report_0.1.html draft metadata standard] [http://shiftspace.cc/jamie/re-tx_report_0.1.pdf PDF] prepared by JJ King and Jan Gerber:

This report and proposal is under consultation within Transmission-connected networks until Monday November 6th;

We are looking for substantive responses, feedback, proposals, in particular direct inputs from the other Transmission working groups - eg Translation/Subtitling, DoNoHarm, Aggregator R&D, Documentation....

I am posting [http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Responses_to_draft_schema summaries of responses] in the wiki and hope that people with experience of this field of work can suggest practical ways forward to finalise and then begin to implement the standard.

After 6th November we will gather the working group together to review and improve the schema, spec out next steps etc. please add to and improve the [http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_Workspace metadata to do list]

As part of this process, JJ King and I have drafted a [http://www.clearerchannel.org/transwiki/index.php?title=Proposal_for_further_funding_for_implementation_of_RDF_schema proposal for implementation] of this standard.

28th October 2006