[education] Welcome to the OASIS Education XML - Mailing List

[openves <tsv@openves.org>]

OASIS has issued the Call for Participation to the membership and our first
meeting (by phone) is scheduled for 25 March 2003.

John and I want to welcome you to the TC mailing list and eagerly look
forward to your participation in the work of the committee. Over the course
of the next few weeks we will be sharing on this list a more refined scope
of activity and a draft development roadmap for the group. We hope you will
participate in, and add value to this conversation.  By doing so, our first
meeting will be much more productive.

The official OASIS Technical Committee website is at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/education/ .  To provide additional
input and a place to house a registry for taxonomies, ontologies, thesauri,
schema, and controlled vocabularies, and to provide a requirements portal
for the PK12 community of practice we have also set up www.edxml.org.

Establishing this committee is about giving voice to PK12 requirements and
bringing the best experience and thinking from the XML community to bear on
those requirements. There is no intention to duplicate activities underway
in other standards communities like IEEE, CEN/ISSS, and IMS. In fact, we
will maintain liaisons with these groups, and the members of the Education
XML Technical Committee will bring the work of these respected groups into
PK12 with best practices, implementation specifications, conforming
extensions, and  reference implementations.

Do not hesitate to bring your thoughts, concerns, ideas and questions to
this list.

Tom Vreeland, Co-chair
tsv@openves.org

John Cona, Co-chair
johncona@optonline.net