conventions for registering collections

[Ray Plante]

Hi folks,

In Naples, I believe it was, Markus gave a presentation that proposed 
a "best practice" for registering data to the registry.  Based on my 
recent studies of how the registry is used in discovery--and how it 
confuses users--I agree that something like this is needed.  In 
particular, I hope to see us launch a steady migration of our 
registered resources to a common convention so that we can make search 
results more comprehensible to both users and applications.  The first 
step is to decide what that convention should be.  

Therefore, I would like to propose that we put the topic on the RWG 
agenda in Urbana, and I would like to nominate Markus to reprise 
and/or revise his presentation.  Given that he presented this before, 
it might be good to get some pre-discussion going before then.

thoughts?
Ray Plante