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[Ray Plante]

Hi Tony, 

I would summarize our activity have several major thrusts at the moment.

Metadata:
  *  a v1.1 revision of the RM to incorporate lessons from current 
       practice and quality
  *  an effort to push to a v1.0 VOResource that can go through the 
       standards process.  Current changes on tap are minor but are being 
       affected by the Registry Interface standard development.  
  *  preparations for overhauling an important VOResource extension, 
       currently called VODataService which looks specifically describing 
       data collections and services.  Important input to this is the 
       Astrogrid work on CEA and the Universal Worker Service.

Registry Interface
  *  a push to release a self consistant (v1.0?) working draft of the 
       Registry Interface document.  This document desribes the harvesting 
       and searching interfaces for registries.  

Curation
  *  NVO has undertaken at systematic review of current registry records 
       to look at what is useful and what is not.  The results are feeding 
       into the latest version of the RM. 
  *  Discussions are underway about how we can encourage good quality 
       metadata in our records and what the role of the registries are in 
       the curation of this information.  At the center of this discussion 
       is the proposal for a metadatum called ResourceVerificationLevel 
       (or just verification level) which helps defines the roll 
       registries must take in curation.

hope this helps,
Ray