Re: [W3C Group Management] Christine Oliver has joined the Publishing Community Group

Thanks Christine.

Nice to have you and look forward to future collaboration!


Cheers,

Zheng


On 2022-03-15 3:18 p.m., Christine Oliver wrote:
> Hi Zheng,
>
> I would be happy to introduce myself to the group.
>
> I am Chris Oliver, Head of Metadata and Processing at the University 
> of Ottawa Library. As you can guess, the University is located in 
> Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Most academic librarians also carry out 
> research and service activities, and my area of activity has been in 
> the development and maintenance of metadata standards for 
> bibliographic data. I have a long history of involvement with the 
> development of RDA (Resource Description and Access), the 
> international standard for creating metadata to support the discovery 
> and identification of resources in libraries and other cultural 
> heritage institutions. I have also served for eight years as a member 
> and chair of the Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group that is 
> a part of IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations 
> and Institutions. I am currently serving as a member of IFLA's 
> Committee on Standards. During my work on standards development, both 
> with RDA work and IFLA work,  I have frequently been in discussions 
> about the development and implementation of best practices to ensure 
> the recording of metadata about accessibility features. I am also a 
> member of the ARL CARL Task Force on Marrakesh Implementation. As you 
> probably know the Marrakesh Treaty is intended to facilitate access to 
> published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or 
> otherwise print disabled.
>
> I am particularly interested in the work of the Publishing CG 
> Accessibility Task Force. I had heard about the interest to map 
> accessibility metadata to MARC formats. I was invited to join the 
> meeting on March 10^th  to discuss this mapping work. RDA data 
> elements map to MARC 21, and we have been interested in knowing how to 
> introduce greater granularity in bibliographic metadata by referencing 
> the schema.org data elements and ONIX vocabularies. There is also 
> interest in encouraging greater use of accessibility fields already 
> present in MARC 21.  I am very interested in participating in this 
> mapping exercise. A cross-domain mapping exercise has the chance to 
> lay the groundwork for smoother interoperability.
>
> Chris
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Zheng Xu <zxu@gardenia-corp.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2022 10:01 PM
> *To:* Christine Oliver <christine.oliver@uottawa.ca>
> *Cc:* W3C Publishing Community Group <public-publishingcg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [W3C Group Management] Christine Oliver has joined the 
> Publishing Community Group
> *Attention : courriel externe | external email*
> Hi Christine
>
> Welcome to the publishing community group.
> If you don't mind, can you please briefly introduce yourself to our 
> group members?
>
> Such as:
> Where do you come from?
> Why would you like to join the group?
> What would you expect to work in the group or expect PCG could help with?
>
> Thanks,
> Zheng
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:30 AM <sysbot+ipp@w3.org 
> <mailto:sysbot%2Bipp@w3.org>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Chair and Team Contact,
>
>     On 2022-03-14, Christine Oliver joined the Publishing Community Group
>     as an unaffiliated individual / not representing any organization.
>
>     The following commitments were made:
>
>     - to agree to participate in the Publishing Community Group [1]
>     under the
>     terms of the Community and Business Group Process [2], agree to
>     abide by
>     the terms and spirit of the Code of Ethics and Professional
>     Conduct [3],
>     and agree to participate as an individual under the W3C Community
>     Contributor License Agreement [4].
>
>     For more information on Publishing Community Group participation, see:
>     https://www.w3.org/community/publishingcg/
>
>     [1] https://www.w3.org/community/publishingcg/
>     [2] https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/
>     [3] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/
>     [4] https://www.w3.org/community/agreements/cla
>
>
>
>
>     Thank you,
>
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