Research Advisory Committee

Minutes — Meeting of September 8–9, 2004

Reported by Robert C. Bolander
Communications & Programs Manager
OCLC Office of Research

The OCLC Research Advisory Committee (RAC) met on Wednesday and Thursday, September 8–9, 2004 at the OCLC campus in Dublin, Ohio.

Four new and returning members were present for the meeting:

• Wendy Lougee, University Librarian/McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
• Neil McLean, Director, IMS Australia (Brunswick)
• Andy Powell, Assistant Director, Distributed Systems and Services, UKOLN (Bath)
• Barbara B. Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy & Support Office, The Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

Additionally, CNI Executive Director Cliff Lynch was present for much of the meeting.

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research (OR), opened the meeting with a brief overview of the OCLC Research program and plans, changes in RAC membership, and the meeting agenda, which included presentations on five major OR activities:

OCLC Research Program Overview and Future Directions
Lorcan Dempsey

Content Management

PREMIS
Brian Lavoie

D-Space and Institutional Repository Work
Ralph LeVan, Jenny Toves

Knowledge Organization

FAST
VIAF
Ed O'Neill

FRBR Update
Thom Hickey, Ed O'Neill, Diane Vizine-Goetz

Systems and Service Architecture

SRU/SRW
Ralph LeVan

ERRoL Environment
XSLTProc
Jeff Young

Schema Transformations
Jean Godby

Terminology Services
Diane Vizine-Goetz

Service Innovation Around WorldCat
Mike Teets

Using the Beowulf Cluster and FRBR
Thom Hickey, Jenny Toves

Collection and User Analysis

Collection and User Analysis
Lynn Connaway, Brian Lavoie, Ed O'Neill, Chandra Prabha

Interoperability

Identifiers, Info URI, DCMI Update
Stu Weibel

Persistent Object Identifiers (POIs) Discussion
Andy Powell, Thom Hickey, Jeff Young

More information about OCLC Research projects is available on the OCLC Research Web site at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/

Opportunities to question presenters occurred throughout the meeting. A period of open discussion across topics wrapped up the meeting's main session.

RAC members had lunch with members of OCLC Research staff on Wednesday, and met in executive session with OCLC president Jay Jordan, research VP Lorcan Dempsey and chief scientist Thom Hickey following the close of the open meeting on Thursday. Planning currently is underway to establish meeting dates for next year.