Re: [cam] Government Repositories and Content Assembly

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Paul,

Thanks for posting this.  Your detailed analysis is going to take
a day or so to digest here and then I'm sure we can provide
feedback as to specifics relating to CAM and the Registry
and the business goals you have laid out.

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
To: "cam" <cam@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: [cam] Government Repositories and Content Assembly


> Several people here are involved with the ebXML TC and know about what I
am
> trying to do here. But for the others ...
>
> A problem I come across in UK Government is that individual Government
> departments need to store XML artefacts (such as XML Schema data types),
> relate them to metadata (such as a data dictionary) and build schemas from
> them. Whilst doing all this, they need to manage their internal version
> control at the component level while making sure they use other Government
> definitions (such as those for social security numbers) or external
> definitions (such as those in UBL) where appropriate. I am trying to put
> together some requirements and an architecture based on this, using the UK
> MOD as a model. The work of the CAM TC should be relevant to the assembly
> part of this process, so David Webber suggested I involved this group.
>
> I have discussed this in the ebXML regrep group, and am also involving the
> eGov group. I have now done a first draft of those parts of the document
> that I agreed with the regrep group that I would do. It is at
> http://boynings.co.uk/mod/regrep-v0-2.pdf.
>
> The next stage is to add wider requirements and come up with a
> standards-based architecture to achieve these requirements. My goal is to
> create an architecture using OASIS standards that can be used to allow
these
> registries to interact, not only within government, but also, for example,
> with a UBL repository. Although I am talking about the registry (which
will
> obviously use ebXML standards since we are discussing it OASIS TCs) I
> believe there is a lot we need to decide in terms of how the registry is
> used and the client applications required. In particular, how the
artefacts
> in the registry should be built into schema documents. It is essential
> within Government that we specify standards and architectures, but not
> specific applications to be used.
>
> My hope is that people will read this document (it is a PDF, but I am
happy
> to do other formats on request) and we can discuss it through this list.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Spencer
> Director
> Boynings Consulting Ltd
> http://www.boynings.co.uk
>
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