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Subject: RESEND: Meeting Minutes: OASIS LEGAL XML - LEGISLATIVE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE - MAY 7, 2004
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG-DAY) > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:07 PM > To: 'legalxml-legislative@lists.oasis-open.org' > Cc: Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG-DAY); Ensign, Chet (LNG-EWR); Hunting, Sam > (LNG-EWR) > Subject: Meeting Minutes: OASIS LEGAL XML - LEGISLATIVE TECHNICAL > COMMITTEE - MAY 7, 2004 > Importance: High > > > OASIS LEGAL XML - LEGISLATIVE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE > MAY 7, 2004 > Attendees: > Dee Schur - OASIS > Eileen Woods - Research Institute of America, Harrisburg, PA > Kelly Ray - PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dallas > Chet Ensign - LexisNexis > Don Bergeron - LexisNexis > Daniel Bennett - Citizen Contact > Sam Hunting - LexisNexis > Michael Aisenberg - Verisign, DC > Jaime Clark - OASIS > > > [Note: I thank Kelly Ray for taking these minutes! - Don] > > OASIS SYMPOSIUM REPORT > 200 people attended general session > LegalXML - Core filing, Integrated Justice had meetings with 12-13 in > attendance plus conference call > > Leadership Discussion - Interim Chair Changes - Framework for > Leadership (10 Min) > Chet: Legislative TC has existed for some time, but has not been > focused/active. Don Bergeron will be taking on the role of TC Co-chair. > Don Bergeron was chair of LegalXML Steering Committee until last year when > whole steering committee turned over. Sam Hunting becoming active. Sam > has background with standards work. Sam was one of the early participants > in the LegalXML Court Filing effort. Sam understands that we are a > private/public partnership. Sam will be assigned to the TC as Secretary > and Editor. > > Court Filing TC and Integrated Justice TC operate with co-chair structure. > Tradition is one co-chair is from private sector. Other co-chair has been > a member of the public sector portion of the community. Believe that this > is a good model for this community. Helps in design and eases adoption > and use. Reaching out to the National Association of State Legislatures > and other professional organizations will be a key component of this > effort. > > Daniel Bennett indicated that he would be willing to step down as a chair > once the public chair was found and voted in. He will remain active in the > standards effort. > > Elections for the co-chairs will occur once the current recruiting drive > is complete. Don will stand for election at that time. > > Interest & Commitment of Resources - Editor & Secretary (10 Min) > Don: Sam Hunting will serve in this role. Sam is calm and has a history > of listening. As editor, he asks probing questions. > > OASIS LegalXML Legislative Technical Committee Report to Member > Section (5 Min) > See Appendix A. > > State & Federal Legislative Electronic Document Usage & Capability Survey > (5 Min) > Chet: Dan has developed survey and is having a staff member pre-populate > the survey with publicly available information. Will distribute to the > Technical Committee and get feedback. > > Dan: Currently going through the data gathering process. Ann Washington > did great job on ferreting through what information we need to know from > the respondents. > > Daniel was very sensitive to the community > > Dublin Core Usage Modeling - Protect & Document Current Work & > Speed up effort (10 Min) > Don: Difficulty in not having the initial data to use to develop > standard. Daniel's effort will help seed this initiative. > > Need to begin to get a good solid vocabulary. Sam is going to consolidate > material from OASIS email streams into a central document, combine that > work with input from the survey, and begin laying out the work product(s). > The committee is considering a workshop (below) on how to fit items into > the Dublin Core vocabulary. Will help us create work-product and help > build the community. > > Next two Telephone Conference Meeting Targets & Face-2-Face (15 Min) > Want to have teleconferences on an ongoing basis either monthly or > bi-weekly. Prior to face-2-face, have bi-weekly telephone conferences > beginning May 20th at least to share information. Old schedule was > Thursday afternoon from 2p.m.-3p.m. Eastern. We will continue this pattern > for now. > > Face to face to set context for where the TC lives and get hands dirty > with getting draft standard out. What is happening with eGov and how it > will relate. Second day as a workshop. Get a leader to facilitate > through the workshop. Workshop to be targeted to be within next 2 months > in DC. > > > Message to Technical Committee Members (2 Min) > Anyone who is not a member, send and email to > Donald.Bergeron@lexisnexis.com to get meeting notices. If not a member > and have questions, call Don at 937-865-1276. > > Michael Eisenberg participates in ABA Information Security Committee and > an agenda item for an upcoming meeting is on electronic evidence. ISC is > chaired by Stephen Wu. Next meeting is May 13/14th in Virginia and New > York. Look at Cooley,Godward site - <http://www.cooley.com> or > <http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/next_meeting.html> for more info. > John ?? is designated liaison for ABA, but not necessarily tied into ISC. > Dan participated on electronic signature. > > Targeted Solicitation for Prospective Members (2 Min) > Will send out email to existing members and target members. > > OASIS LegalXML Member Section Meeting Report - Will post URL to the > meeting information (1 Min) > > > Regards, > > Don > > Donald L. Bergeron > Systems Designer > LexisNexis > donald.bergeron@lexisnexis.com > O 937-865-1276 > H 937-748-2775 > M 937-672-7781 > > > APPENDIX A > > OASIS LegalXML Member Section > Legislative Technical Committee > > Status Report > April 28, 2004 > > TC Goals > The OASIS LegalXML Legislative Technical Committee is a community focused > on the definition and use of XML and related technologies for legislative > documents and information. It is focused on the needs of the Legislative > community, setting the correct focus for the development of specifications > and deliverables. There are at least three stakeholders groups in our > community. The originators, distributors, and end users of legislative > content all have needs and legitimate interests. > > This effort targets the support of these stakeholders when their needs > critically, those needs that have near-term value are thoughtfully > discussed and prioritized. If we do not coordinate our efforts we will end > up competing and diluting the outcome. > > OASIS provides the framework and open methodology that can help us create > standards that are trusted, adopted and used. > > Recent Activities > The technical committee has been looking at the descriptive metadata for > legislation focusing on the proper use of Dublin Core. > > It is preparing a survey, to be distributed shortly, to understand the > current use of metadata, XML, and other structured markup systems (SGML, > PDF) across the States and Federal governments. > > Identifying a set of potential new members of the community to be invited > to goal setting activities. Prepare to reinforce the current members of > the community in their involvement and in goal setting and planning. > > Completed Products > None as of yet > > What you intend to accomplish during the next twelve months > Continue the development of a usage model/content rules within the Dublin > Core Initiative's vocabulary for the legislative content documents. Target > date is TBD. > > To identify the goals and short-term specific needs of the legislative and > regulatory community using a survey and active outreach followed by > focused discussions with interested stakeholders in the community with a > target of the end of July 2004 > > To lay out a roadmap of needed standards and to focus on one standard for > specific requirements definition / review and launch the first standards > creation effort with a target of September 2004 > > To plan for specific requirements definition / review for the first > standard under an aggressive schedule. > > What you need from the Member Section to accomplish your goals) > Under discussion > > >
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