conventions for registering collections

Ray Plante rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Apr 30 11:27:43 PDT 2012


On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> My main comment is that such a discussion should be driven by users: 
> either end users or providers or appplication writers. It needs to 
> be driven by real world experience rather than Registry Philosophy 
> as it were. 

Indeed.  My perspective on this has been from seeing how our discovery 
tools (and the humans using them) are using or not using the registry. 

> My secondary comment is that this is also about data publication 
> toolkits. They are the places to hold cookbooks / examples of good 
> practice etc.     

Coming toolkits is where I would like to start this transformation.  

cheers,
Ray


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