1. Registry Community Workshop 2009 organised by UKOLN and the DCMI Registry Task Group Welcome!

2. Registry Community Workshop 2009 Programme: Morning 09:30 – 10:00Welcome coffee 10:00 – 10:45Introductions. A chance for everyone to introduce themselves 10:45 – 11:00Stephen Crawley: Schemas and Schema-driven Metadata Software 11:00 – 11:15Talat Chaudhri: Application Profiles Support Project 11:15 – 11:30Julia Kurt: MPDL metadata handling 11:30 – 11:45Break 11:45 – 12:00Corey Harper: Mapping the metadata registry environment. An initial report on the survey of metadata registries 12:00 – 12:15DC Registry Task Group 12:15 – 12:30Diane & Jon: Distributed Registries 12:15 – 13:00Straw man session #1: discover each other's content

3. Registry Community Workshop 2009 Programme: Afternoon 13:00 – 13:45Lunch and informal discussion 13:45 – 14:30Metadata registry software and approaches to metadata management 14:30 – 16:00Straw man session #2: peoples' requirements and priorities (Pauses for coffee, tea and other refreshments will be worked in throughout the day!)

4. Introductions A round-robin couple of minutes each for people to introduce themselves and their involvement within the registry community

5. Schemas and Schema-driven Metadata Software Stephen Crawley

6. Application Profiles Support Project Talat Chaudhri

7. MPDL metadata handling Julia Kurt

8. Coffee Break

9. Mapping the metadata registry environment Corey Harper Initial report on a survey of the current state of the art for metadata registries, present developments, the range of use cases that have arisen, and the interoperability needs for registry developers

10. DC Registry Task Group Goals: Develop a set of functional requirements common to current registries, based on the experience and findings of current registry implementers and stakeholders. As part of this, investigate the dissemination functionality considered desirable in a registry, and appropriate use cases associated with this functionality; common requirements Draft a set of use cases for inter-registry interactions, taking into consideration interoperability concerns (reporting, notification, versioning, etc.) between registries and other applications sharing related goals; inter-registry use cases Draft a set of functional requirements related to the inter-registry transfer language or languages, including interoperability concerns related to sharing information between registries and with other applications such as vocabulary management applications that share related aims. inter-registry functional requirements

11. Distributed Registries Diane Hillmann & Jon Phipps

12. Straw man session #1 Discover each other's content, and use it to develop connections How far does machine-to-machine level reuse take us, confronted with issues such as internationalisation and localisation?

13. Lunch

14. Metadata registry software and approaches to metadata management A look at current metadata registry software and approaches to metadata management (Round-robin discussion)

15. Straw man session #2 A brief discussion of peoples' requirements and priorities, in the hope of developing a set of recommendations / practical engagement in terms of setting up test beds, etc.

16. Thank you!