RE: Fw: [election-services] Voting Information Project

["Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>]

Call me cynical, but that sounds like "we had never heard of EML, but now
people are mentioning it, here is our retrospective justification for not
using it." Still, the FAQ entry is positive, and if it gives us an "in",
that is good news.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [mailto:joehall@gmail.com]
> Sent: 30 May 2008 01:56
> To: richcar@us.ibm.com
> Cc: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: [election-services] Voting Information Project
>
>
> Hmm, that mention of EML must be new, because I didn't see it earlier
> in the week. best, Joe
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:52 PM,  <richcar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Making contact with the VIP people sounds like the right thing
> to do.  On the technical side, the VIP 1.2 schema does not take
> advantage of various XML capabilities, like the ability to
> enforce uniqueness of ids or to enforce cardinality constraints
> on some elements.
> >
> > I noticed the following entry on the VIP FAQ page, the logic of
> which I don't quite understand:
> >
> > 5) What about the Election Markup Language (EML)? Why aren't
> you using that?
> >
> > The Election Markup Language (EML) is a data standard that
> covers most of what the VIP's format covers and more. While it's
> very flexible, and is global, it has seen little adoption in the
> United States. To spur state election officials to publish their
> data in a common format, we designed a more focused format that
> is easier for states and U.S. organizations to adopt. During this
> process, we looked to the EML for inspiration and we plan on
> exporting VIP data into EML in the near future.
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> UC Berkeley School of Information
> http://josephhall.org/
>
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