Re: [egov] FW: XML.ORG E-Government Focus web content

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Diane,

What would be awesome is if we could use the registry.oasis-open.org
to coordinate these areas of knowledge.  Its a leap in the dark from
where the registry is now, but....

Anyway - in the meantime - would be great to use HTML pages
to create a FAQ or similar useful information - where we could
store responses such as Carls' below - so that others may
use it as a body of knowledge.

Thanks, DW.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov>
To: <John.Borras@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk>; <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: [egov] FW: XML.ORG E-Government Focus web content


John, colleagues,

as current editor of the newly activated xml.org focus area....
 i will be receiving responses from visitor's to the site...   below is an
example of a "letter to the editor" i have received since the focus area
went live.

I suspect we will need to set-up a procedure for "aborbing" and "processing"
these "letters to the editor".   We advertise on the site that it is meant
to be a clearinghouse.. exchange of egov work throughout the planet.... so
suggest we determine a procedure to review content provided from non-TC
members/observers and a strategy of inclusion for e-gov efforts underway in
various shapes and sizes that we discover via the focus area site.

First step:  responding to Mr. Reed (below) either via the TC chair
one-on-one response or individually through interested members or authoring
an editor's response that summarizes all input from TC membership... ???
which approach works??

Second step:  set-up informal procedure to follow for processing future
letter to the editor responses....

thanks for your guidance/advice   diane

-----Original Message-----
From: creed@opengis.org [mailto:creed@opengis.org]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:25 PM
To: editor-fa-egov@xml.org
Cc: kurt@opengis.org
Subject: RE: XML.ORG E-Government Focus web content


To whom it may concern.

I am the Executive Director of the Open GIS (OGC) Specification Program. The
OGC is a voluntary consensus standards organization. Our mission: OGC leads
the development, promotion and harmonization of open geospatial standards
and supports their effective implementation and use worldwide. Over the last
several years, our members have defined, tested, documented, and implemented
a variety of OpenGIS Specifications in E-Government applications. The use of
spatial data is an integral component of many existing and planned portal
applications. For example, the US Government geodata.gov portal implements
several OpenGIS specifications and a major new spatially enabled
e-government initiative is just beginning in Australia. To date, the OGC has
10 approved specifications that can play a role in the definition and
deployment of e-government portals. Of these, several are XML based. The
post significant of these is a specification called the Geography Markup
Language (GML). GML is an application of XML and XML Schema for encoding
geographic features, their geometry, and their attributes.

Given what I feel is the importance of these specifications to
implementations of geospatially enabled E-Gov portals, I am wondering how to
best collaborate to provide relevant web content for
http://egovernment.xml.org/ .

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely

Carl Reed, PhD
OGC Executive Director, Specification Program

OGC - Helping the World to Communicate Geographically



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