Draft Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting, March 18th, 2009

["Eric S. Chan" <eric-s.chan@oracle.com>]

Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting, March 18^th , taken by Eric S. Chan

Agenda:

    * 1. Roll call to establish voting members
    * 2. Review the TC Issue Recording and Resolution Process
    * 3. Discuss UML and RDF Modeling Tools and OASIS Specification Formats
    * 4. Discuss Liaison with CMIS
    * 5. AOB



1. Roll call to establish voting members

Eligible Persons present in the call were:

   1. Siegfried Handschuh
   2. Marc Pallot
   3. Philip Arkcoll
   4. Rafiul Ahad
   5. Eric Chan
   6. Martin Chapman
   7. Ramesh Vasudevan

OASIS Staff Present:

   1. Robin Cover

Eric noted Rajani Sadasivam from UAB as an observer at the TC meeting.


2. Review the TC Issue Recording and Resolution Process

Martin Chapman supplied the issue process slides
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/icom/email/archives/200903/ppt00000.ppt 
and discussed the issue recording and resolution process commonly used 
by OASIS TCs.

Martin summarized that the TC meetings decide to open, close, defer, or 
resolve the issues. New issues are raised by TC Members at and in 
between meetings. Issues are raised by email to the TC mailing list with 
subject line beginning with “NEW ISSUE: [title]”. An issue number will 
be assigned to any issue raised even though the issue may not be 
accepted as an issue. The TC page should record the issue resolution 
once the resolution is marked as resolved. Use JIRA to record open and 
closed issues. Martin emphasized the need for majority vote to reopen 
any issues. This rule helped the TCs prevent churning of issues by small 
minority.

Action item: confirm with Mary about setting up JIRA for the ICOM TC.

Eric Chan motioned and Martin seconded the motion to allow the TC 
members to work on technical issues outside of the regular biweekly TC 
meetings. The regular TC meetings will be reserved for tracking, 
approving, recording, and formal resolution of issues. Rafiul Ahad 
requested an amendment to the motion for members to communicate the 
details of the technical discussions and issues to the ICOM TC mailing 
list. The motion was approved.


3. Discuss UML and RDF Modeling Tools and OASIS Specification Formats

Eric proposed to review the modeling tools to enable interchangeable 
model source files.

Eric has been using Borland Together Architect 2007 for Eclipse to 
define the UML model for Beehive Object Model. The model (including 
diagram elements such as associations and strong or weak aggregations) 
for this tool is represented in Java with annotations. Any TC member can 
edit the Java classes and annotations using any IDE. Eric can generate 
the UML diagrams from the Java classes.

Siegfried Handschuh suggested the open source UML modeling tool from 
ArgoUML http://argouml.tigris.org/. For RDF modeling tool, Siegfried 
suggested Protégé from Stanford University http://protege.stanford.edu/.

Action items:
· Raise an issue for adopting a UML modeling tool, e.g. using Java and 
annotations
· Raise an issue for adopting an RDF modeling tool, e.g. Protégé

Eric proposed to use XHTML format from the OASIS specification templates 
at http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/index.html for the ICOM 
specification working draft.
Marc Pallot proposed to publish the working draft in wiki 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/icom. Eric commented that the XHTML working 
draft simplifies importing into Wiki, and the draft can be maintained 
using the XHTML editor http://www.nvu.com/.

Action Item:
· Raise an issue for draft specification format, e.g. XHTML


4. Discuss Liaison with CMIS

Eric reported the status of ICOM liaison with the CMIS TC. Eric expects 
to be called to present the ICOM to the CMIS TC during a CMIS TC 
meeting. Eric sent the presentation slides 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/icom/200903/ppt00001.ppt to the 
CMIS mailing list. Eric and Siegfried discussed to add a few slides 
presenting DERI’s experience with Drupal content management platform 
http://drupal.org/. Siegfried indicated that Drupal is incorporating 
SIOC http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/.


5. AOB

Eric will track an action item to upload the input documents from 
members to the OASIS repository.

Eric will propose a meeting (outside of regular TC meeting) to present 
the Beehive Object Model in Oracle's input document to the TC and call 
for presentations by other members.

Philip Arkcoll asked how members may suggest agenda for the TC meeting. 
Members can propose amendment to the proposed agenda at and in between 
meetings. After the roll call in each meeting, the members shall motion 
amendments to the agenda for the meeting.

Meeting adjourned.