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Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] February HumanMarkup TC Meeting Minutes
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:11:16 -0800
Title: February HumanMarkup TC Meeting
Minutes
Here are the minutes from this month's meeting. I will link it to
the TC Website this weekend.
Just as a heads-up alert, I will also be adding the materials
Kurt Cagle and I developed for our presentation to the WSIA TC
founding meetings in January. I will also add my scenario from the
WSIA as an example of Requirements-Gathering Methodlogy, with a formal
use-case to be added as available.
Here are the TC Minutes, which I will link to this post Sunday,
February 24, 2002 with some other updates to the TC website.
February 20, 2002
Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical
Committee.
USA Toll Free Number: 888-810-3949
USA Toll Number: +1-712-257-2360
Roll Call:
Voting Members:
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Rex Brooks
Joe Norris
Rob Nixon
Manos Batsis by Proxy
Non-members:
Lola Ramirez
Sylvia Candlearia de Ram
Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks
Meeting convened12:10 p.m. Eastern Time
This meeting was brief.
Lola Ramirez introduced herself, informing us tht she is the Director
for E-Business for Drale Certivo, a global standards, education and
certification organization closely working with the ebXML
organization, with whose specifications she is familiar and for which
she offered to advise us in regard to the compatibility of our
vocabularies.
Sylvia Candlearia de Ram, who has monitored our efforts occasionally,
identified herself as the editor of the Python Journal and was
uncertain as to where or if she might contribute.
We welcomed both of them and expressed our hope that they continue to
work with us.
Ranjeeth had two agenda items: 1) Review our efforts to gather
requirements; and 2)
Review our ongoing efforts to renew the vigor of participation in our
group.
With regard to 1) Rex Brooks pointed to the posting on the mailing
list to which he attached a sample scenario from the Web Services for
Interactive Applications TC, in a similar effort to derive
requirements from typical scenarios using web services which are then
further developed by more formal use-case analysis. Rex mentioned that
he will also post a use-case example as it becomes available, as an
example of the kind of analysis which the HumanMarkup TC might employ,
and mentioned that he will be able to bring various requirements from
his work with the WSIA TC.
Also in regard to 1) the formation of a new OASIS TC to develop
standards for biometric data was noted, as was the request made to
Sudhakar Gorti that he join and/or monitor this TC so that we can
ensure that there are no conflicts in our vocabularies, and that we
are in agreement on standard representations of this data for our
overlapping purposes. Rob Nixon volunteered to also monitor
developments with this new TC.
Further in regard to 1) Joseph Norris mentioned that he is discovering
some requirements in his work on HumanML_Report.
The last clarification for agenda item 1 was to emphasize that the
Requirements Document will also be a blueprint or plan for formally
proceeding first with writing a base schema along the lines of Len
Bullard's Phase 0 schema toolkit, and then to elucidate the
requirements for developing the extended schemata modules from our
subcommittees and future specification-writing, or
usage-compilations.
In general, it was reiterated that we need to get our requirements
submissions in by March 15, and it was noted that Rex will write a
first-draft, straw-man document for discussion in the next meething of
the HumanMarkup TC, Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:00 Noon EST.
In regard to 2) It was noted, and gratefully acknowledged that Joe
Norris' work on HumanML_Report is progressing in a timely and
important way that shows great promise in demonstrating the practical
use of HumanMarkup, and which will almost certainly gain us greater
credibility and interest.
Also, in regard to 2) Rob Nixon reviewed his work on Tokenizing the
Motion Capture data his work is producing. This will hopefully lead to
an acceptable standard that recognizes these patterns of activity as
represented by these tokens. The aim of this effort is to develop a
set of motion templates from these tokens that can be associated with
emotional states both in recognizing the patterns and reproducing them
in a standard way.
With regard to both 1) and 2) Rex Brooks reported from his prior
conversation/chat with Manos Batsis that Manos had volunteered to
monitor and/or join the XTM effort, which comprises several OASIS
Topic Map TCs and has its own Member Services Area, and is also
preparing for a conference soon. This fills a deficit for the
HumanMarkup TC's efforts in forming liaisons with other TCs. Manos
also asked if there were any ideas besides his in joining the XTM
efforts, that might bring new participants to his efforts to ensure
compliance and interoperability with RDF specifications. He noted that
the W3C RDF Working Group has gotten deeply involved with the issues
of Type, especially with regard to the handling of literals in
triples. This means that it may not be possible to guarantee complete
harmony between our efforts and the emerging amendments in the RDF
Specification.
New Business:
The committee decided that, particularly with regard to improving
participation, and coordinating our increased activities, that we will
meet informally on Yahoo IM for conference chats on Mondays weekly at
12 Noon EST.
Joseph Norris will produce a
feedback mechanism for continuing the development of HumanML_Report
for a features wishlist and to gather requirements from potential
users of demonstration application.
The meeting was then
adjourned, with the next meeting scheduled for March 20, 2002 at 12:00
Noon EST.
Regards,
Rex Brooks
OASIS HumanMarkup TC Vice Chair, Secretary and Webmaster
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