GeoLang TC minutes: Montr�al meeting

Time and place

The meeting was held at 2002-08-10, 1600-1800, in the Salle des Indi�ns room of the Wyndham International hotel in Montr�al.

Attendance

Formalities

Since only two TC members out of six attended the meeting the meeting did not have a quorum, and so was not able to make official decisions on behalf of the TC. Instead, it discussed how to design the first proposal for published subject sets for ISO 639 and 3166 codes.

Meeting content

The meeting discussed the form of the published subject sets based on ISO 3166 and 639, of which the chair was instructed to publish drafts as soon as practically possible.

The meeting made the following decisions:

• The numeric codes of the ISO standards should be used in the subject identifiers for ISO 3166, since these are the only stable identifiers in the source standard. No other subject identifiers should be provided for the ISO 3166 codes.
• The published subject sets should be published as a single HTML file containing the subject indicators as well as human-readable metadata.
• The subject indicators for each code should take the form of rows in a table, with columns for English names, French names, each of the three codes, and finally the subject identifiers themselves.
• Accompanying the HTML file should be machine-readable metadata in the form of both XTM and RDF files, linked to from the HTML file, which would then serve as the point of entry.
• The XTM metadata should be separated into three files: one for metadata about the PSI set, one for the information provided about the subjects in the source standard, and one for mappings from the old subject identifiers to the new.

Action points

The chair will create a draft of the published subjects for ISO 639 and ISO 3166.

Meeting schedule

The next meeting will be held following the XML 2002 Conference in Baltimore, December 14, 2002.