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# Research Advisory Committee

## Minutes -- Meeting of August 1, 2002

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

The OCLC Research Advisory Committee (RAC) held its second meeting of the 2002 year on August 1, 2002 at the OCLC campus in Dublin, Ohio. Two RAC members were present:

- Barbara B. Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy & Support Office, The Library of Congress.
- Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research Coordinator, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research, opened the meeting with a brief overview of activities since the previous meeting in March, changes in RAC membership, and the day's agenda.

RAC members met with research scientists and their teams in working sessions focusing on selected research projects, including:

- VIAF, the Virtual International Authority File
- FRBR, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
- the "Metadata Switch" project [Metadata Exchange Services], including
- Schema Transformations
- SRW-Search & Retrieve on the Web
- SRU-Search & Retrieve via URLs
- Name Authorities
- Terminology Services

More information about these and other research projects is available or forthcoming on the OCLC Research Web site.

Research scientists briefly reviewed the background and current status of their projects, before fielding a general discussion of related topics.

The meeting format allowed for a great deal of discussion and exchange of ideas, and participants said they considered it engaging and productive.

Planning currently is underway to establish meeting dates for next year.