Minutes for TC Meeting 6-18-03

Here are the minutes for this month's meeting:

June 18, 2003

Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee.

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Roll Call:
Voting Members:

Rex Brooks
Rob Nixon
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Sylvia Candelaria deRam
James Landrum
Joseph Norris

Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks

Meeting convened12:10 p.m. Eastern Time due to a mistaken 800 prefix number Rex posted instead of the 888 prefix.

Previous meeting minutes accepted.

This meeting was held on the third Wednesday of the Month.

We had a quorum.

As usual, some of these items were actually discussed in a different sequence from this summary.

Old Business:

James reviewed the various projects he is working on with the Archeology Technologies Laboratory, North Dakota State University, Digital Archive Network for Archeolog , particularly a new collaboration with Arizona State University on a database of primate osteology including digital photogrammetry of skeletal remains of living and extinct, fossilized specimens which can be mapped to such languages/vocabularies as AnatML, HumanML through HPCDML, Nomina Anatomica and the Digital Anatomist. James said that this work will also incorporate GIS coordinate mapping working with Physical Anthrppolgistcolleagues in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania where he will be visiting in his travels this summer to India and Europe in connection with ongoing projects.

James also mentioned that he is currently meeting with and planning work with Steven Stead of the CIDOC CRM Project, and that he may be one of the presenters at the World Archeology Conference in Washington, D.C. next week, being one of five proposers of papers in the area of digital archives.

James also mentioned later, in the context of discussions on 3D digital modeling and animation software packages that he is working with representatives of Alias/Wavefront on training sessions later this summer.

Rob reported that he would be posting ongoing, revisions of the Charter and Mission Statement he and Sylvia have been working on for the renamed CogEnv Subcommittee Friday.

Ranjeeth likewise indicated that he would submit the Charter and Mission Statement for the Conflict Resolution Subcommittee by Friday as well.

We decided that we will allow two weeks for reading, discussing and voting on the Charters for the Subcommittees, and then submit them as a group to OASIS to set up the mechanics for tracking SC work, such as mailing lists for the subcommittees.

Ranjeeth outlined the steps he sees the CR SC taking, mentioning firs that he was hoping to find someone else to be the chair of the SC, hopefully from the government sector. These steps consist first of a survey gathering requirements from agencies and organizations involved in this field. This will also serve to publicize the work of the subcommittee and hopefully generate recruits and participation from a variety of groups and individuals, which is the second phase or step of the work Ranjeeth projects. The third step or phase will be drafting requirements for extensions to HumanML for Conflict Resolution purposes, presumably something along the lines of a Human Conflict Resolution Markup Language.

Ranjeeth then reported that he is concentrating on the ongoing work with the New York Academy of Medicine, which is still planning on including some provision for working with or preparing to work with Web Services and Web Standards.

Rex reported that in his work with the Emergency Management TC, and the GIS Subcommittee of the EMTC, he has come to the conclusion that fall is the appropriate time to establish formal liaisons to that and other standards working groups.

Rex also reported that he is nearly finished preparing a proposal for the facial animation system to submit to the H-Anim working group of the Web 3D Consortium, which will pave the way for further liaison work in the fall, after SIGGRAPH2003.

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