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# 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.