Fw: proposed BI-ICS spec

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

Fellow CAM'rs - seems the need we identified two plus

years ago is finally getting the attention it deserves!

 

See email below on work IBM is doing with Schematron

in this area. 

 

I see this as being most helpful in a number of directions.

 

First it establishes that there is a need to augment schema

for e-Business needs - (and gets people over that self-denial!).

 

Second - having established a need - we will see Schematron

and CAM and XSLT being offered as solutions - and that's

healthy - in that people can then pick the approach that

best fits their needs.

 

Third - I'm picking this moment to let you know some

very good news - we now have an open source

implementation available of CAM -

 

http://jcam.org.uk

 

What I have been working on is getting everything

together to do an official large scale press release

thru OASIS and roll-out of this.  For that we need

several things - a) first public release of our spec',

b) good brochure explaining CAM, c) jCAM site.

 

Well we're making progress on all this - but never

as fast as one wants of course.  I believe we will

have this ready for OASIS by the end of February.

 

In the meantime - we obviously want to validate

Martin's great work on the jCAm processor, and

help support the work he is doing at the site.

 

In that vein - I did a presentation yesterday to

the USGov XMLWG here in Washington DC.

 

I just posted the PPT from that to our

outreach documents on Kavi - and generally the

reception from the audience was positive -

and the topic certainly fitted in with their

focus on getting to better interoperability

with XML.

 

Enjoy, DW.

 

p.s. the doc' is also available directly

       from my site - and I'll add it to the

       SWIKI when I have time.

 

>  http://drrw.net/presentations/OASIS-CAM-XMLWG-Jan2004.ppt
>

<--- Original Message --->

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:49:09 -0600
From: Scott Hinkelman <srh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [oag-general] FYI:  BI-ICS
To: oag-general@yahoogroups.com, dconnelly@openapplications.org

Hello standards associates, I would like to inform you of the recent article and the introduction of a
specification in the area business-level interoperability.
We are soliciting feedback to gain an understanding of any value in progressing toward standardization in this area.
Feedback, and any interest in support is very welcome from both the
consortium and the individual member companies.

Introduction article and spec links, etc
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-biics/

The article will be updated with a link to an IBM AlphaWorks release on 1/22/2004.
Thanks for you time,
Scott
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IBM Software Group
Emerging Technology Strategy - Industry Initiatives
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