ANNOUNCEMENTS . . .

Panel Discussion and Task Force Meeting set for Jan 19

The metadata task force will meet directly following the panel discussion entitled "Putting and Finding Mathematics on the Web" that will take place on Wednesday, January 19, in Ballroom Balcony A, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington DC. The panel discussion starts at 2:15 and ends at 5:15. The Task Force will meet following the panel session. See http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2026_amsother.html.

Link with IMU Established

The technical advisory board of the Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) established a mathematics metadata task force at their meeting in Berkeley, California, on December 5, 1999. This prompted us to change our name from the mathematics metadata working group to the American Mathematics Metadata Task Force to emphasize the international nature of metadata and the localized nature of some of our work. Please see the IMMTF home page for more details.

Level II Taxonomy to be expanded before Math meetings in Washington.

The MAA has agreed to help support five mathematicians to work on extending the work done by ENC on Level II. A large group will meet on the evening of Saturday, January 15, and continue to work all day on Sunday, January 16. A smaller contingent will continue to work on Monday, January 17 and the results will be posted to the Web on Tuesday, January 18.

Records transferred from ENC and Math Forum to SMETE

NEEDS has successfully transferred a number of records and their metadata from both the Math Forum and ENC to the mathematics portion of the SMETE portal. We look forward to increased interoperability among these digital libraries.

LOM moving rapidly towards next level of balloting

Version 3.8 of LOM is being edited with the intention of sending it forward to the larger IEEE balloting procedure. Until now, the working document has only been balloted within the working group (P1484.12). Although some issues remain, they are minor in the general scheme of things and indicate that there is a high level of agreement and buy-in on the the document among working group members. The next level of balloting is designed to balance input from developers, users, and other interested parties and represents significant progress in the process of becoming an IEEE standard.

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