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Subject: OASIS Call for Participation: UOML-X
To: OASIS members & interested parties A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language eXtended (UOML-X) Technical Committee has been proposed by the members of OASIS listed below. The proposal, below, meets the requirements of the OASIS TC Process [a]. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of deliverables, audience, and language specified in the proposal will constitute the TC's official charter. Submissions of technology for consideration by the TC, and the beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting. This TC will operate under our 2005 IPR Policy [b]. The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the first meeting (see details below) are that: (a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an individual member of OASIS; (b) the OASIS member must sign the OASIS membership agreement [c]; (c) you must notify the TC chair of your intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting, which members may do by using the "Join this TC" button on the TC's public page at [d]; and (d) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date fixed below. Of course, participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC welcomes all interested parties. Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining OASIS [c]. In addition, the public may access the information resources maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and public comments facility, which will be linked from the TC's public home page at [d]. Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your feedback. Regards, Mary --------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org [a] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php [b] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php [c] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/ [d] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uoml-x (or http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/uoml-x/ to join group from the member page) --------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language eXtended (UOML-X) TC Name OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language eXtended (UOML-X) Technical Committee Statement of Purpose The purpose of this TC is to carry on the existing OASIS UOML TC's goal of developing and maintaining the XML-based operation interface standard for unstructured documents. The Unstructured Operation Markup Language specification will define an XML schema for universal document operations. The schema is suitable for operating printable documents, including create, view, modify, and query information, that can be printed on paper, e.g. books, magazine, newspaper, office documents, maps, drawings, blueprints, but is not restricted to these kinds of documents. There are several commercial and free applications available based on the current draft of UOML cited below, with more currently under development. Scope The resulting specification must meet the following requirements: * It must be suitable for printable documents. * It must define universal operations to these documents, including create, view, modify, query, retrieve, security control, user interaction etc. * It must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications. * It must process layout-based information suitable for presenting the document. * It must be friendly to document related applications. * It must be cross-platform and program language independent. The existing UOML specification part 1 developed by UOML TC meets the above criteria. It is anticipated that it will be contributed to the TC as a starting point for its work. A standard for document operation will be of great utility to many users and software companies developing applications, and should be made available as soon as possible. Deliverables The UOML specification will be composed of several parts. The first part describes operations that should be used to create, read, write, edit, display/print documents. The other parts describe operations for security control (including DRM), query, document organizing etc., and such other document-related functions as the TC may decide to specify. The work of this TC has been divided into two phases: In the first phase, the TC will review the existing UOML Specification Part 1 developed by UOML TC, and submit to public review by the end of Q2 of 2008. The TC will plan to submit the UOML Specification Part 1 for approval as an OASIS Standard in 2008. In the meantime, we can start the second phase. In the second phase, this TC will develop other functions in additional parts of the UOML specification, to encompass additional areas of applications or users, and maintain the existing part(s) which may also include adapting the specification to recent developments. The work of this TC in the second phase will additionally allow for the following areas: o enabling additional areas of application, o exploring new or experimental ideas for document operation, and o extending the expressiveness of the operation. The TC also may choose to submit completed and approved work to other organizations in accordance with the OASIS Liaison Policy. Each of the drafts will include a set of XML schemas setting the vocabulary, constraints and semantics of each operation in question, and a set of written specifications that describe the elements and attributes of the schemas in plain English. Anticipated audience: The anticipated audience for this work includes, but is not restricted to: * Developers of document related applications; * Developers of DoCbase Management System(DCMS); and * Other specification writers that need document operations or parts of it. Language The TC shall conduct its proceedings in English. IPR Mode The TC will operate under the RF on RAND Mode under the OASIS IPR Policy. Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC Related and similar work The UOML-X TC expects to base its initial work on contribution from work created in the OASIS UOML Technical Committee. Developers and users of office application and document formatting specifications such as the OASIS OpenDocument Format ("ODF") may also find UOML useful. However, UOML addresses a different set of functions. The proposed UOML specification will operate on layout-based formatting information, rather than content-based formatting information (such as ODF). UOML will limit its functions to abstracting data from paper form, and defines an operation interface, rather than a file storage format. Anticipated contributions It is expected that the existing UOML specification will be contributed to the TC by the members of the UOML TC and China Docbase Standard Committee. Proposed working title UOML Specification Proposed date, time, and location of first TC meeting Date: April 23, 2008 Time: 3:00AM, Eastern U.S. Duration:1 hour Mode: Teleconference Telephone: To be decided prior to the first meeting Sponsor: Sursen Co. On-going schedule Monthly 1 hour teleconferences sponsored by Sursen Co. Proposers: Alex Wang, dlwang@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Andy Lee, javola@vip.sina.com, Changfeng Alliance Stephen Green, stephen.green@systml.co.uk, Individual Allison Shi, allison_shi@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Liwei Wang, wangliwei@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Ninsheng Liu, liuningsheng@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Mendy Liu, liumingjuan@sursen.com, UOML Alliance Xu Guo, guoxu@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Lin Cheng, chenglin@ch2000.com.cn, Beijing Redflag CH2000 Software Co. Ltd. Pine Zhang, pine_zhang@sursen.com, UOML Alliance Convener: Alex Wang, Sursen Co., dlwang@sursen.com
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