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Subject: [xtm-wg] Proposal for inviting David Steinberg as a guest.
I would like to submit to the vote of the AG that David Steinberg becomes an invited guest I consider David highly qualified to contribute actively to the work that is done by the Authoring Group. David not only represents the user perspective on topic maps, but his expertise on related standards, such as RDF, SOAP, ebXML, etc., makes his contribution invaluable. David has attended a 2 day workshop I have been teaching in New York and therefore is not a beginner in topic maps. I have asked him to present his activity to the group. ============================================================= I have worked in the Canadian government, dealing with development aid issues, since 1971. My work has, at different times, involved policy, economic and information management analysis. I have also managed a virtual library Web site. My interest in XML dates to the period leading up to the drafting of the XML 1.0 Recommendation. As XML has developed, I have become convinced that one of the most important hurdles the Internet must overcome is the development of semantic interoperability. Of course, many others have come to the same conclusion before me - eg. the W3C Semantic Web concept. It seems likely to me that Web development over the next few years might follow the path - development of vertical industry/discipline/sector schemas will continue as the main activity for the next 2 or 3 years - business "frameworks" eg. UDDI, ebXML, Biztalk will come into play starting next year, making schema-to-schema communication/data tagging transformation easier through establishing common conventions for the use of XML in business data exchange; but, -Following this stage, there will be a great need for horizontal across-schema, computer to computer meaningful communications requiring some sort of metadata framework(s) which would allow the integration of commensurable metadata sets. it seems to me that the leading contender for that framework will be XTM. I am the now CIDA (Canada's international development agency) desk officer dealing with the World Bank's Global Development Gateway proposal (see http://www.worldbank.org/gateway/). Many organizations involved in international development are concerned that the World Bank will use the Gateway to set the agenda in development. The way subjects are broken down, related to each other, related to possible policy prescription etc. and the decisions made as to what links to present are ways that the proposed Gateway could be used to set the agenda. I am currently trying to conceptualize how Topic Maps, especially using inductive semantic acquisition methods, could be used to enable users of the Gateway site to view the resources using different views (cf. Helka Folch's papers - "Constructing a navigable Topic Map by inductive semantic acquisition methods." and "Semantic Tagging of a Corpus using the Topic Navigation Map Standard"). In the longer-run, because I foresee the wide applicability of XTM, I would like to develop an expertise in the field David Steinberg. ========================================== Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom Tel +33 1 44 59 84 29 Cell +33 6 03 99 25 29 Email: mb@infoloom.com Web: www.infoloom.com ========================================== -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/0/_/337252/_/976836441/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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