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Subject: New Discussion Group - Referencing External Schemes
This is a copy of the email sent to the entire "regrep" list on Friday, August 17. -- Len -------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS/ebXML Registry members, At a previous Registry teleconference meeting, Lisa announced that she was going to set up a discussion group on the topic of referencing nodes of classification schemes that exist but are external to the local Registry. She named me to lead the discussion because I was the one who raised the issue by submitting a proposal last June to change the way classifications are handled in our model. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/regrep/200106/msg00018.html My proposal was not acted upon. Instead a new issue was created "Using non-local classification schemes". A ballot of the group in mid-July resulted in that issue being given high priority. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/regrep/200107/msg00044.html Lisa has since set up a new OASIS email discussion list for that issue. To subscribe to the private discussion list, OASIS members should send an email message to regrep-ex-scheme-request@lists.oasis-open.org with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. Subscribing to the list does not constitute gaining committee membership; OASIS members must contact the committee chair to inquire about becoming a committee member. If your subscribe request was successful, you should get an email confirmation within a few minutes. After subscribing, you may send a message to the list at the address regrep-ex-scheme@lists.oasis-open.org The content of all messages sent to this list is public and can be accessed via the URL http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/regrep-ex-scheme/ I think this message will be the first one on that list. My intent is to approach this topic from a requirements point of view before discussing any specific solutions. We will assume that a person wants to classify an existing "repository item" that has a RegistryEntry instance in a local Registry by an "external" classification scheme. The person will have to somehow reference the external classification scheme and a specific node (or path of nodes) from that classification scheme. One required pre-requisite is that we will limit discussion to classification schemes as defined in the OASIS/ebXML specifications, i.e. "hierarchical" schemes. We will not broaden the discussion to more general interpretations of "classifications" that might include "topic maps", "semantic nets", "ontologies", etc. The example "external" classification schemes will include at least the following: UNSPSC http://eccma.org/unspsc/browse/ NAICS http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics/naicscod.txt LivingThings A distributed classification scheme with 7 named levels with different pieces under the control of different organizations ManyOthers http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/classification.html and likely others that I or other discussion participants will create. We'll want our example set to include some dynamic schemes that may change often, thus making it impractical to copy those schemes into our local Registry, as well as schemes that are owned by another group who refuses (for whatever reason) to let us copy the scheme into our Registry. We'll want to include schemes that are owned and registered by some other OASIS/ebXML conformant Registry as well as schemes that are owned and controlled by registries not necessarily conformant to OASIS/ebXML specifications, e.g. existing "library" classification schemes. This group has no teleconferences set up yet. I'll see what kind of issues we have before setting up the first teleconference. And I'll make sure that the first teleconference meeting gets advertised to this entire "regrep" email list. Regards, Len Gallagher ************************************************************** Len Gallagher LGallagher@nist.gov NIST Work: 301-975-3251 Bldg 820 Room 562 Home: 301-424-1928 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 USA Fax: 301-948-6213 **************************************************************
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