Amended Minutes for TC Meeting 6-18-03

June 18, 2003

Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee.

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Roll Call:
Voting Members:

Rex Brooks
Rob Nixon
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Sylvia Candelaria deRam
James Landrum
Joseph Norris

Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks

Meeting convened12:10 p.m. Eastern Time due to a mistaken 800 prefix number Rex posted instead of the 888 prefix.

Previous meeting minutes accepted.

This meeting was held on the third Wednesday of the Month.

We had a quorum.

As usual, some of these items were actually discussed in a different sequence from this summary.

Old Business:

1. Collaboration with ASU PRISM to develop a Primate 3D OsteoKnowledgeBase. 3D objects (3D models of skeletal anatomy) are created using non-contact laser digitizers and computed tomography (CT), not photogrammetry . While bot P{RISM and ATL use laser scanners and CT for 3D model generation, the ATL role in 3DosteoKnowledgeBase project will be to work on the schema and thesauri. That will entail mapping the schema to the CIDOC CRM, AnatML and HumanML and more particularly, the HPCDML- with specific attention to anatomical and taxonomic elements and properties, etc. This will be a 5 year project. Submission deadline for this program is July 14.

2. The other project proposal (submitted and under review at NSF)is the ATL collaboration with staff of the Herbert Kairuki Memorial Unversity and Tanzanian Department of Antiquities to digitize the Tanzanian collection of fossilized hominid and other non-human primate remains, as well as associated material culture remains (e.g., Oldowan and Acheulean stone tools). This will be a 5 year project, and wil also involve creation of schema and thesauri, etc. and this will involve CIDOC CRM, HumanML, HPCDML, AnatML.

James also mentioned that he is currently meeting with and planning work with Stephen Stead of the CIDOC CRM Project.Stephen Stead will be presenting a workshop on CIDOC CRM to the National Park Service on Friday. James will attend the CRM SIG meeting in Oxford in early October, and then will be visiting with other UK researchers at various institutions then will be off to VSMM in Montreal, and then back to Fargo, so October will be a busy month for him.

James also mentioned later, in the context of discussions on 3D digital modeling and animation software packages that his colleague Aaron Bergstrom, the ATL Visualization Manager, has arranged training sessions, courtesy of Alias/Wavefront as part of a corporate donation made to ATL. Alias/Wavefront is enthusiastic about what they are doing, providing them with media exposure because they use Maya and make mention of that in their papers on projects, etc. The close relationship they (especially Aaron) have developed is due in part to the very well received article in Nature Magazine on the ATL Neanderthal Hand reconstruction and animation project in collaboration with Wesley Niewoehner of USC-San Bernardino. They will be working with representatives of Alias/Wavefront on training sessions later this summer.

Rob reported that he would be posting ongoing, revisions of the Charter and Mission Statement he and Sylvia have been working on for the renamed CogEnv Subcommittee Friday.

Ranjeeth likewise indicated that he would submit the Charter and Mission Statement for the Conflict Resolution Subcommittee by Friday as well.

We decided that we will allow two weeks for reading, discussing and voting on the Charters for the Subcommittees, and then submit them as a group to OASIS to set up the mechanics for tracking SC work, such as mailing lists for the subcommittees.

Ranjeeth outlined the steps he sees the CR SC taking, mentioning firs that he was hoping to find someone else to be the chair of the SC, hopefully from the government sector. These steps consist first of a survey gathering requirements from agencies and organizations involved in this field. This will also serve to publicize the work of the subcommittee and hopefully generate recruits and participation from a variety of groups and individuals, which is the second phase or step of the work Ranjeeth projects. The third step or phase will be drafting requirements for extensions to HumanML for Conflict Resolution purposes, presumably something along the lines of a Human Conflict Resolution Markup Language.

Ranjeeth then reported that he is concentrating on the ongoing work with the New York Academy of Medicine, which is still planning on including some provision for working with or preparing to work with Web Services and Web Standards.

Rex reported that in his work with the Emergency Management TC, and the GIS Subcommittee of the EMTC, he has come to the conclusion that fall is the appropriate time to establish formal liaisons to that and other standards working groups.

Rex also reported that he is nearly finished preparing a proposal for the facial animation system to submit to the H-Anim working group of the Web 3D Consortium, which will pave the way for further liaison work in the fall, after SIGGRAPH2003.

In this connection, Rex said he would try to recruit Sandy to harmonize work in the HPCDML SC and CAESAR Anthropometric Landmarks in relation to anatomical interoperability.

James indicated he would do similar work to coordinate his work on digital archiving of hominids for musculoskeletal standards.

Rob and James said that they are still working toward a motion-capture-based kinesics vocabulary that will work with HPCDML and the facial expression animation system Rex is developing.

Sylvia termed this overall system as a superficia, a human gestural language which we can build a combined database for, including all the work mentioned.

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