DITA TC Meeting Minutes from 8 September 2009

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 8 September 2009 at 08:00am PT for 60 
minutes.

Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gerjosep@cisco.com>


Roll call
> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meetings: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00023.html (8 September 2009, Gershon)
> Minutes approved by acclamation.


Subcommittee/liaison reports (as needed)

* OASIS DITA Pharmaceutical Content Subcommittee (Steffen confirmed for today)
  > Steffen: The SC is now started. We have had two meetings. Our first formal 
  > meeting was on August 27. Our next meeting is scheduled for the last 
  > Thursday in September. We are keeping monthly meetings. We have 18 members 
  > on out roster. Approximately another 20 people working their way into 
  > joining OASIS and intend to join the SC. We expect at least 10 of the 
  > largest pharmaceutical companies to participate. We are planning an OASIS 
  > webinar on 22 September "Defining DITA for pharmaceutical documents". The 
  > purpose of the webinar is to address a broader audience of the 
  > pharmaceutical companies around the world. We are working on scoping our 
  > work. We want to refine it down to a work breakdown structure so we can 
  > assign writing tasks and deadlines and plan our activities. The group is 
  > focused on interface between DITA and other standards that support 
  > pharmaceutical content.
  > 1) We want to liaise with certain pharmaceutical standards organizations 
  > 2) There will be work to be done in mapping some of these other standards 
  > into DITA. 
  > Also mapping out what the other standards are so we can determine which 
  > ones to map to.
  > Group members want to get as close as possible to an enforceable standard

  > Skip the regular SC rotation for pharma SC one time and pick it up after 
  > their next meeting (expect update about a month from today).

  > Next week the Adoption TC will provide an update.

* OASIS DITA for Technical Standards Subcommittee (inactive)
  > ACTION: Gershon to send Seth the new admin alias.


ITEM: DITA 1.2 specification (Revised for the September 8 TC meeting, Joseph) 

* Business:

  * Progress report on architectural spec
    > Gershon updated TC on progress to-date.

  * Finalize names of the components: The following are the current names in 
    the TOC of the spec:
     
    * Base
      > The TC agreed to change this to "Basic"

    * Technical content 
      > Gershon asked the TC whether this name is accurate. "Tech comm" is not 
      > useful. After some discussion, the TC agreed that it's not very 
      > descriptive, but no better proposals came up. Stay with this one.

      > The TC noted the need to also match the package names to these TOC 
      > section names.

    * Learning and training

  * Outstanding action items: 

    * Add hazard-statement graphics to applicable lang ref topics (Kravogel) 

      > Kris noted she has not received anything from the Machinery SC.
      > ACTION: Kris to ping Chris K.

* Follow up:

  * Action: Eliot on lockmeta updates 
    * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00021.html
    > Eliot has not had time to close.
    > EDITORIAL: The TC noted an editorial direction to ensure the lang ref 
    > and arch spec accurately describe the expected behaviour.
    > CLOSED.

  * Under specification for @refcol
    * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00024.html (Day)
    * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00048.html (Kristen reply)
    > The spec is supposed to indicate that any of the items in that column 
    > would be used as a key lookup somewhere else. The assumption was human 
    > readable text would be good enough to do the look-up, e.g. associating 
    > API names with target topics based on string matching plus semantic 
    > scoping. This is a shorthand for wrapping a keyword around the whole 
    > column.
    > ACTION: Gershon to add it to 1.3 list
    > ACTION Robert to ensure this states "reserved for future use."
    > CLOSED.

 * order for lang ref files 
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00042.html (Kristen reply)
   > ACTION: Su-Laine and Kris to continue offline and copy Michael and Gershon.
   > CONTINUED.


New item: "Introduction to DITA" topics 
 * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00006.html (Eberlein) 
 * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00007.html (Joseph)
 * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00008.html (Kimber)
 * continued discussion

> CLOSED.


New ITEM: Issue: glossary.dtd does not conform to 1.2 naming specs (rate as a 1.2 bug?)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00022.html (Kimber)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00034.html (Ogden, "1.3?")

> Insufficient time to complete this item. The following captures the discussion
> during the meeting:

> For consideration: Editorial team to address "glossary" topic error and also 
> update any list of file/module names.

> For consideration: Robert and Eric to update the DTDs/schema with Eliot's 
> suggested fix. New public identifiers should use "Glossary Entry" in their 
> value. The existing (old) public identifiers must remain unchanged.

> For consideration: Gershon to add to 1.3 list.

> CONTINUED. Need to understand impact before making motion for the above 
> changes.

*** Meeting Adjourned ***