Reports To: Metadata Strategy and Policy Steering Committee (MSPSC)

Advisory Group Charge: 

• Solicit and submit proposals on emerging tools and initiatives, such as those generated by Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies
• Maintain metadata application profiles, schema crosswalks, and metadata registries
• Advise on storage and maintenance of metadata that have no current catalog of record (e.g., VRC items; geospatial data, sheets from scanned atlases; metadata formerly maintained in Ladybird)
• Advise on interoperability of metadata systems and standards
• Prepare programs and events: e.g., discussion groups, invited speakers, coordination with SCOPA
• Distribute agendas and minutes
• Forward proposals and recommendations to Metadata Strategy and Policy Steering Committee

Membership:

  Chair: Tim Thompson [1]

• Dominique Bourassa [2]
• Brenna Bychowski [3]
• Alicia Detelich [4]
• Zoe Dobbs [5]
• Douglas Duhaime [6]
• Barbara Esty [7]
• Matthew Gorham [8]
• Eric James [9]
• Daniel Mugaburu [10] (Recording Secretary)
• Chuck Riley [11]
• Kalee Sprague [12]

Frequency of Meetings: Monthly or as needed

Member Selection Method: Ex officio, representing metadata communities of practice, with 2 rotating members.

Term of Service: 2 years, renewable