VSIG charter status update

Hi all,
TAB has provided very positive feedback on the charter proposal and suggested a few minor updates and that we re-submit.
One suggestion was that we record the roles our participants are involved with in the lifecycle of publishing/consuming controlled vocabularies.
We have identified the following roles: creator, maintainer, publisher, user
If you are listed in the active participants table please let us know which of these roles you expect to, or have been be involved with. If we missed any role types please let us know and we will include that in the table.
Also, we have some new members since the last charter submission and notification so if you would like to be included in the active participant table on the revised charter please let us know by sending us the following information
Name:
Email:
Organization:
Title:
Field / Area of Interest:
Role: (select all that apply, add your own type if needed)
- creator
- maintainer
- publisher
- user
Thank You
Stephan Zednik
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Author: Mike Brown

Date: 13 Jul, 2015

Hi Stephan
Name: Mike Brown
Email: ***@***.***
Organization: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Title: Head of Application Development
Field / Area of Interest: Linking Environmental monitoring and observational data
Role: (select all that apply, add your own type if needed)
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- maintainer
- publisher
- user
- Facilitate creation
Regards
Mike
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Author: Arthur Smith

Date: 13 Jul, 2015

I believe I am already in the participants table. As far as roles, it
depends:
* creator & maintainer (for a new controlled vocabulary for physics we
are close to releasing)
* user - (of PACS, CODATA constants, elements/isotopes?, orgref
institutions list)
I actually had just been thinking of posting a question to this group
anyway...
It has seemed to me recently there's a lot of overlap or maybe
synchronicity between persistent identifiers and controlled
vocabularies. Each provides a way to authoritatively link together
digital items through a common factor (the DOI of a reference, subject
keywords, ORCID of a researcher). Authority files like OCLC's VIAF are
basically large controlled vocabularies for people, places,
institutions, etc to which is usually also tied an identifier. ISNI I
think mostly derived from the OCLC data as a name authority list that
has evolved into an individual/institutional identifier.
For SKOS vocabularies the identifier is a URI which may or may not have
any particular relation to the vocabulary term (it may be derived from
the label or may include a randomly generated number, UUID, etc.)
Anyway, I'm wondering if a more unified view of persistent identifiers &
controlled vocabularies would be fruitful - I think the mapping problems
are similar, for instance. Yes, individual people aren't subdivisible or
differently mappable in the way abstract concepts are (though there are
factors like pseudonyms and the Bourbaki case that add a little
complexity there) - but research articles (DOI's) do have component
parts and belong to journals, publishers, etc, and there are real
complex and evolving relationships between organizations and their
components.
So I guess my question is - should the charter also mention the PID IG
among the relationships and plan something to work with that interest group?
Arthur

Author: Jane Frazier

Date: 14 Jul, 2015

I, too, think I'm already in the list of participants. I am, or have been,
involved in all of the roles creator, maintainer, publisher, user.
cheer,
jane