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Hi folks – we have our next committee meeting on Thursday at 11a Eastern.

Here are the notes from previous meetings. Matt and I have drafted a proposed agenda (also pasted below) – please review and reach out in advance with any questions or suggestions!

~greg

Agenda:

@TechnicalCommittee

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Hi folks – thanks to those who joined us today. Notes are here.

In brief, we primarily discussed the issue of Provenance. We affirmed that OpenLineage seems to do too much of blockchain-style tracing bits of data as they go through complex systems but not enough of specifying stewardship responsibilities. We reiterated some basic needs for provenance in our field, and asked to what extent these needs can already be met by the metadata table (and proposed data guides).

Seems like “a field specifying who has responsibility at the record level for every top-level object” may be one of the minimally necessary steps. A few others were discussed. Let’s see if we can recap here and in a synthesized summary and get a proposal together.

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We now have added video and transcript to the notes, FYI.

Video here: https://youtu.be/6uE6A34YCw4

Transcript and chat text: 2025-11-13

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Hi folks – next @TechnicalCommittee meeting is Thursday Dec 11th. We’ve drafted a prospective agenda hereand below, please review and respond when possible in advance.

Prospective agenda:

Backlog management – process point: When a change proposal is approved, can it also be deferred?

Schema issues:

Proposals:

Issues:

  • Schema discrepancy re relationship between organizations and services – options (Ananya)

**Documentation issues:**

Reference materials:

  • Profile documentation (Jeff)

  • Orientation video reportback

  • What kind of tutorials and how-to’s should we prioritize?

Tooling issues If we have time:

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Hi folks – thanks for joining today, notes are here.

Seems like we’ve got provisional agreements on most of the technical issues that emerged, and we’ll expect to see proposals and next steps shaped up accordingly.

We only briefly discussed a big question: what kind of additional documentation materials – especially tutorials and how-to’s – should we develop?

Documentation: tutorials and how-to’s – what do we need?

For instance:

  • Generating profiles.
  • Flattening HSDS into a spreadsheet.
  • Expanding HSDS from a spreadsheet
  • Producing data guides

What kind of documentation do you think would help you, your partners, and the community with adoption, adaptation, implementation, etc?