DRC-Dev homework

I can see that keeping up with the DRC-Dev group will require some review on my part. After the conference call today I made a list of all those feisty acronyms and terms with which I need to be more conversant. Things like

• Metabuddy
• VRA 4
• DC (Dublin Core) and FGDC
• CEN
• Getty Crosswalk
• Shibboleth
• DMAP (descriptive metadata application profile)
• Luna crosswalk - CWA
• other crosswalks - CDWA XML, etc
• Handles and handle servers
• RDF (resource description framework)

I covered many of these way back in October but they didn't "stick" yet.... We are still debating about multiple schemas and interfaces for users - how can we be complex but simplify for use? We are to look at interfaces of other places. We should stress the needed search functionality and design to that need.