<div dir="ltr">We had a very productive discussion today. We believe we may have found a reasonable scope for the Information Lifecycle and Long Term Usage document that should lead to a more concise document. Please refer to the notes below.<div><br></div><div>Attendees: John Garrett, Terry Longstreth, Mike Kearney, Mark Conrad, Robert Downs </div><div><br></div><div>Information Lifecycle and Long Term Usage document:<br></div><div><br></div><div>One of the first questions raised was where are we going with the scope of the lifecycle document.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the discussion centered around Terry's "incomplete monograph" that he circulated via email during last week's meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>This morphed in to a conversation about data lifecycle vs project lifecycle. They are not the same and the data lifecycle tends to last longer than the project lifecycle.</div><div><br></div><div>There was general consensus that, to some extent we are getting wrapped around the axle of "lifecycle(s)" and this was leading to a great deal of confusion. </div><div><br></div><div>We decided that what we really wanted to focus on was ensuring that information was created and maintained (across all stages of the lifecycle(s)) in such a way that it could be used over the long term. We came up with the following PROPOSED title to reflect this:</div><div><br></div><div>Recommended Practices for Information Preparation to Enable Long Term Use<br></div><div><br></div><div>Rather than focus on the stages of any particular lifecycle the document would focus on recommended practices for creating/collecting information and adding additional information over time to keep the information understandable and re-usable over the long term.</div><div><br></div><div>We would be interested in other members of the groups feedback on this proposal.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Draft ISO 19165:</div><div><br></div><div>Bob Downs circulated this document after last week's meeting. The standard draws heavily on ISO 14721. John and Mark were concerned that some of the summarized parts of OAIS in the draft standard may not be quite right. Mark said that he would read Annex B and provide comments. John said that if he has time he will provide comments on parts of the document.</div><div><br></div><div>Comments are due by March 5th. If you have any comments, please forward them to Bob by COB March 4th.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vint Cerf presentation:</div><div><br></div><div>Vint Cerf is scheduled to make a presentation at Goddard SFC on April 4th (see John's email message with the details). There was some discussion around whether or not this group could try to schedule a discussion with him while he is in the area. Mike suggested at the very least we could provide him with background material on this group's activities that he could use in his talk.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Conrad<br>NARA Information Services</div>
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