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Subject: TC Charter & Call for Participation (for reference)


Copied from the officill announcement location at: 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00008.html
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From: James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
To: members@lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:07:35 -0700
Subject: OASIS TC Call for Participation: OASIS Code List 
Representation TC

To:  OASIS members & interested parties

    A new OASIS technical committee is being formed.  The OASIS Code
List Representation 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. 
  ubmissions 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.   Kind regards  JBC

~  James Bryce Clark
~  Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~  jamie.clark@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=codelist

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
OASIS CODE LIST REPRESENTATION TC

Name of the TC:

OASIS Code List Representation TC

Background:

Many communities of users exchange information in which
commonly-accepted concepts can be expressed using concise mnemonics or
abbreviations called "codes".  Choosing a collection of these codes 
can constrain the expression of information to an agreed-upon set,
requiring the exchange to reference one or more members from only a 
limited list of such codes, variously called "code lists", 
"enumerations", or "controlled vocabularies".  Examples of 
standardized code lists include country abbreviations, currency 
abbreviations, shipping container descriptors, and airport codes. 
Examples of non-standardized code lists used between trading 
partners include financial account types, workflow status 
indicators, and any set of values representing the semantics of 
related concepts known between the parties involved in information 
interchange.  An advantage of using a controlled set of semantic 
concepts is in localization where the associated documentation for 
the coded values can include descriptions in different languages, 
thus not requiring the coded values themselves to be translated, or 
where translation is desired, the semantic equivalence of values can 
be described.

Statement of Purpose:

While code lists have been used for many years, and their
representations for the purposes of being validated are features of a
number of constraint languages, there does not exist any standardized
representation whose purposes address their interchange, documentation
and management for use in any processing context.  The purpose of
the TC is to produce an XML interchange format for code lists.  The 
format will support actual codes (including alternative codes and 
composite multi-part codes) and arbitrary related information for 
each code suitable for documentation and management.  The format 
will also
support the automated generation of derived code lists by providing an
unambiguous specification of how a set of input code lists can be
transformed into an output code list.

Scope of Work:

The scope of the TC is to produce a set of requirements, a W3C XML
Schema, a UML model, documentation, and test examples (particularly to
support the code list derivation functionality) initially based on an
initial contribution to the committee, and then subsequently on
evolving requirements.  The creation of software to implement the 
work of the TC is out of scope.

Deliverables:

* First version of Code list requirements refined from initial
submissions [Q3 2006]
* First version of W3C XML Schema, UML model, & documentation based on
initial requirements [Q4 2006]
* Test examples [Q2 2007]
* Ongoing development of additional requirements and versions based on
deployment experience [beginning Q1 2007]

IPR Mode:

RF on limited terms

Anticipated Audience:

Anyone who works with code lists and has a requirement to transmit 
the code list values and/or metadata between systems.  Also anyone 
who creates code lists based on pre-existing or 3rd party code lists.
Users and consumers of code lists, who may also find a standardized
deployment format for such lists easier to employ.  Those who are 
responsible for defining XML vocabularies may be interested in 
describing a constrained set of values to represent agreed-upon 
semantic concepts in order to control information items.

Language:

English
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The following is informational only for the purposes of starting the
TC, and will not be part of the TC's charter.

Related Work:

The proposers are unaware of standardization efforts related to the
representation of code lists and controlled vocabularies.  Some
projects that have expressed interest in the preliminary work being 
submitted to this committee, and projects that are known to need 
solutions in this area, include:

OASIS PLCS TC and ISO STEP work
OASIS UBL TC (already uses a draft version [0.4] of genericode for 
code lists non-normatively.)
OASIS UnitsML TC
FIX - Financial Information Exchange
FpML - Financial Products Markup Language
MDDL - Market Data Definition Language
OSCRE/PISCES (real estate)
UN/CEFACT Core Components Specification

The TC plans to liaise with each of the OASIS TCs above, and will
contact and welcome liaison from the other efforts listed.  Possible
liaisons already have been identified for UBL TC, PLCS TC and
UnitsML TC.

Anticipated Contributions:

The current genericode draft (version 0.4) requirements, UML models,
XSD models, and documentation are expected to be contributed to this 
TC by Miley Watts LLP (see http://www.genericode.org
and
http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/abstracts/paper86.html
for more information regarding genericode)

Proposed Working Title for Specification:

genericode

Date and Time of First Meeting:

Monday, 28 August 2006, 15:00 UTC, by teleconference.

Ongoing Meeting Plans & Sponsors:

Teleconferences will be on an as-required basis every two or three
weeks while most of the discussion will happen on the TC mail list. 
  The sponsor for the teleconferences is the Software & Information 
Industry Association.

Proposers of the TC:

James Hartley, SIIA FISD, jhartley@siia.net
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems, jon.bosak@sun.com
Tony Coates, Miley Watts, LLP, abcoates@mileywatts.com
G. Ken Holman, individual member, gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com
Jim Northey, individual member, jnorthey@jandj.com
Bryan Rasmussen, Denmark Ministry of Science, Technology & 
Innovation, brs@itst.dk

TC Convener:

G. Ken Holman, gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com

Proposed Chair(s):

G. Ken Holman, gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com

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