Proposals for next TC deliverables

["Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

This is a follow-up of my last answer to Lars Marius.

If we stick to what had been our latest decided deliverable structure, the
to-do list is as following:

D2. Recommendations for Published Subjects Documentation Structure
D3. Recommendations for Published Subjects Management
D4. Recommendations for Published Subjects Use

We have been struggling for a while with D2, and let a pile of questions on
the backburner.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/docs/recommendations/issues
.htm

Maybe we should not try to deliver generic answers to those issues. But we
could at least agree on the generic vocabulary about them, reviewing what
has been left, based on Lars Marius analysis from May 2002, at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/docs/recommendations/psdoc.
htm

That would lead to a Deliverable 2 reduced in scope to something like:
"Published Subjects Documentation - General Definitions"

In which we would not recommend any specific features like format or
metadata, but simply set the generic vocabulary about PSD, to be used in
various use cases. After that, we would focus on addressing those issues
and make specific recommendations for specific domains/scenarios/use cases
in a further set of deliverables, each addressing Structure, Management and
Use for the specific case. The generic structure of those further
deliverables should be described in D2, like:

- Definition of the scenario
	- Legacy to be expressed as PSI
	- Objectives and expected benefits of PSI in this scenario
	- Users requirements
- PSD Structure in the scenario
	- .. following general elements defined in D2
	- .. addressing specific features (metadata, format ...)
- PSD Management
	- avalaibility, versioning ...
- PSD Use
	- specific recommendation for use in the scenario

As for the scenarios themselves, here is a list that comes to my mind - not
exhaustive ...

- PSI for Structured Vocabularies (Thesaurus)
- PSI for Classification Schemes (e.g. Documentation Categories : LoC, DDC
...)
- PSI for Population of Similar Instances (e.g. ISBN, ISO Country Codes,
NASDAQ ...)

Those three could be fine to begin with. More difficult could be the
following ones.

- PSI for Vertical Industry (might include one or more of the previous
ones)
- PSI for Distributed Enterprise (idem)
- PSI for Community of Practice (idem)

Thoughts?

Bernard