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Subject: Revised HPCDML Mission Statement/Charter
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:02:23 -0700
Title: Revised HPCDML Mission
Statement/Charter
Hi Folks,
I didn't get around to this last night because I got caught up in
reweighting vertices in the faces of my generic human models, which I
did actually finish as much as I can without starting over. It is
quite acceptable, though not perfect.
In any event, here is the text of the revised charter (first two
paragraphs) and mission statement for the Human Physical
Characteristics Description Markup Language Subcommittee which I would
very much like to get approved in today's meeting. Attached is a Word
version.
Human Physical
Characteristics Description Markup Language (HPCDML) XML and RDF
Schema Specifications Subcommittee
Mission Statement, Values Statement and Objectives
Statement
February 28,
2003
Mission
Statement:
Develop, design and
provide specifications for Human Physical Characteristics Description
Markup Language.
HPCDML will be designed to
provide standardized description of physical characteristics of
humans, with specific responsibility to harmonize and interoperate
with widely accepted Public- Health, Medical, Biometric,
Human-Modeling and Public Safety standards.
HPCDML is a superset of
HumanML and through markup language concepts will provide a
communication medium for end users and software community to exchange
information of greater depth and complexity than verbally-based
symbolic language in isolation from non-verbal contextual information.
This extended communication requires an accurate depiction of human
physical behaviors.
The primary objective is
to provide a common medium specification for software to communicate
physical characteristics. The goal here is enhance, unify, and provide
a uniform common language for exchange of physical characteristics of
humans, both external and internal, which help us identify individuals
and interpret their physical communications uniquely. HPCDML will be
specifically designed to be interoperable with and as nearly as
possible identical to existing, recognized standards for the
description, identification and empirical documentation of the human
body.
Scope: HPCDML shares the uniquely identified goals of HumanML and as a
superset of HumanML, these goals are almost identical with exception
of the fact that HPCDML has as its primary focus Physical Human
Characteristics both external and internal, most especially those
often missed or overlooked by the existing, recognized standard
information systems, with which harmony and interoperability is
required, for the description of human physical characteristics
adopted by:
> world wide web identity authentication and security domains;
> general and specialized medical domains;
> public safety and emergency management domains;
> governmental and legal domains; and
> law enforcement
domains.
The scope of HPCDML will include:
> resource references for the ontology and taxonomy of human
physical characteristics;
> relevant, open,
public specifications cited above, and possibly the standardization of
Application Programming Interfaces to implement them.
Values
Statement:
To implement this mission,
the HPCDML Subcommittee will pursue the accuracy, preservation and
privacy of individual human information in a time-defined fashion.
This means that providing for the delivery and use of an individual's
most current and immediately applicable information will be the
guiding principle for any collection, recording, and providing of such
information. This will require complete respect for the wishes of the
individual for control of and responsibility for the release of such
information from any repository using the HPCDML
specifications.
Further, the values of
improving human communication and the timely delivery of such
information with particular emphasis upon securing and improving human
health and welfare at all appropriate levels guide this mission and
will be respected.
Objectives
Statement:
We will endeavor to
deliver a Requirements Document for this subcommittee by July 31,
2003.
We will endeavor to
deliver an XML Schema by November 30, 2003.
If possible we will
endeavor to deliver an RDF Schema by November 30, 2003.
Further we will establish guidelines for maintaining and extending
this set of specifications by March 31, 2004.
Ciao,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth
W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
Email: rexb@starbourne.com
Tel: 510-849-2309
Fax: By Request
HM.HPCDML.mission.doc
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