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

[John.Borras@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk]

Diane

The first thing to remember is that
the TC is not charged with vetting or sanitising everything that comes
into the XML.org site.  So for some things we will just post them
for information with no TC comment.  However other things will clearly
require a response, such as the note from Carl.  I suggest for now
you and I initially review these type of enquiries and determine how to
deal with them.  Perhaps when we have more of them a pattern will
emerge that will tell us how to deal with specific types of enquiries.
 But I guess there will be a lot of ad hoc stuff that we'll have to
deal with on a case by case basis.

For this one from Carl we've already
received a similar note on this subject from him direct into the TC and
I'll be dealing with that shortly.  So can you send him a short note
as editor saying we'll deal with it in the TC.  

John

"Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov" <Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov>

02/02/2004 13:06

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Subject	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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