Consensus Workshops Community Building

RD Catalogue Metadata Workshop  12 Delegates + 2 Facilitators  Well defined goals and agenda  Use existing standards and precedents

Timeline  Prepare Usecases and agree goals in advance  Workshop  Outcome is a draft recommendation to the community of a best practice pattern that’s easy to cut-and-paste.  Wider community feeds back  Apply any changes to draft to become final recommendation  Add to the OPD recommendations and valuator.

Costs of Workshop  Travel (£200), Accom (£100), Food (£100) per person  400*14 * 4800  Venue £1000  Overheads for planning and reporting £1000  ~£7K

Community Building  Encourage RDS teams to identify interest groups and create jiscmail lists and/or wordpress blogs for these.  We will maintain and promote a list of these.  Many will fail but the costs are virtually zero, and some will flourish.