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Subject: REVISED TC Meeting Minutes 3-10-04
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:52:39 -0800
Title: REVISED TC Meeting Minutes
3-10-04
Hi Everyone,
I have inserted the requested corrections
between ellipses ( ... ) in italics.
Here are the revised minutes for this
month's first meeting:
March 10, 2004
Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical
Committee.
Dial in toll free: 877 950 6921
outside of USA toll: 1 203 277 0324
Roll Call:
Voting Members:
Rex Brooks
Sylvia Candelaria deRam
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Russell Ruggiero
James Landrum III
Roger Alexander
Propsective Member:
John Sarazen
Invited Guest:
Rob Nixon
Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks
Meeting convened 12:05 p.m. Eastern Time.
Previous meeting minutes accepted for January.
This meeting was held on the new normally scheduled second Wednesday
of the Month.
We had a quorum. As a result, decisions, even somewhat tentative, that
are indicated in these minutes should be treated approved unless
otherwise stated.
We began by noting that our meeting last monthm February, was
cancelled due to lack of attendance due largely to late notification
of the change in both the time from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time to 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and from the third to
the second Wednesday of the month to avoid conflict with the some
other commitments by some TC members.
As a result of that this meeting was largely devoted to updates from
members on their on-going activities and a brief introduction of the
first draft of the proposed charter and mission statement for the
Mediation Subcommittee which was submitted to the TC mailing list
before the meeting:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/huml/200403/msg00015.html
Sylvia reported that she had decided not to specifically cite a
relationship with the HumanMarkup TC, or the Non-Profit 501 (c)(3)
Coproration, Humanmarkup.org, Inc. in her Letter of Intent to file a
Grant Proposal to NSF in the Topic Area of Human Social Dynamics, but
was using a group of colleagues for her proposal. She described this
research work as including Natural Language Understanding aided by
inserting markup tag within text for emotions, and cultural context,
using overlaps and comparisons for speculstive uses such a KIF,
Knowledge Information Format, an international standard that describes
knowledge representation in predicate logic. It is similar, Sylvia
said, to RDF, and, thus may prove useful in the development of a
Cognition in Environments Subcommittee. It is noted that this work
will also likely have significance for the semantic web in frame-based
ontological knowledge bases such as Protege with OWL.
We congratulated Sylvia on passing the initial deadline hurdle, and
developing some positive movement in this direction.
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga mentioned that this was also interesting for its
connection to the Text Encoding Initiative, TEI,
http://www.tei-c.org/
James noted that Human Social Dynamics as a
topic area along with TEI and other encodings was adopted last fall by
the NSF/Gov Working Group as part of the latest iteration of National
Priorities. Specifically, the priority for research was described as
aiming for better interfaces for federal agencies with regard to
organizing and expressing metadata about agency work with the goal of
improving the whole scope for cross-domain searching. James indicated
that he would forward the specific information or urls for the
information to the TC list. Rex will likewise post some information
from a member of the Emergency Management TC which bears on a pilot
program involving such search criteria.
...
(correction from James) We (The
Archaeology TechnolOgies Lab (ATL)), and more particularly (other than
me) Aaron Bergstrom (ATL Computer Visualization Manager and Richard
Frovarp, ATL Lead Programmer) are working with Yumetech on various X3D
and Xj3D development projects- including the recently submitted ITR
proposal (pending funding- wait 6 or more months, please- just to
learn if the proposal was successful) to develop a mobile/wireless
interface for the DANA-WH client and X3D/Xj3D viewer development. At
some level VXML will be utilized in the mobile/wireless
interface- but at this time it is too early to discuss
specifics.
"Humanoid Animation," per se, should not be confused
with the work of H-Anim (Humanoid Animation Working Group). There is
no X3D Humanoid Animation Markup Language UNDER DEVELOPMENT as far as
I am aware- although the H-Anim working group has new guidelines for
X3D (see http://www.h-anim.org/Specifications/H-Anim200x/ISO_IEC_FCD_19774/).
People (individuals, organizations, and institutions) are working
(variously) on X3D and using X3D for 3D avatar development. We (the
ATL) are not doing anything with H-Anim at the present time,
however, we (me, Aaron Bergstrom, Rex Brooks, Rob Nixon, Sandy
Ressler, and others) are having a teleconference with some members of
H-Anim and X3D and members of the medical informatics communities
today, to explore issues of relevance, with regard for markup
activities of the various groups working humanoid anatomy and related
humanoid animation tagging, etc., with some empahsis (today) on
discussions about real and potential coordinations between the working
groups. We'll update the HUML list as appropriate, following the
teleconference.
We are not working with Cornelius Rosse on Humanoid Animation- we have
to date only discussed collaborating with his team to work through the
compatibility and interoperability issues, as well as crosswalks
development between Digital Anatomist Ontology, CRM, and related
markup- particularly between HumanML and also in coordination with
AnatML (Physiome.org and the Bioengineering Institute of Auckland
University)- with specific foci on Human Anatomy and Physiology
markup, and with some attention to markup of humanoid avatars- but are
not (at present) using the Humanoid Animation
2001 specification (actually the Humanoid Animation 200x
specification (see http://www.h-anim.org/Specifications/H-Anim200x/ISO_IEC_FCD_19774/) for anything at the present
time- howerver, per the teleconference meeting today this is likely to
change significantly, at least with regard fro coordination of working
group activities.
These humanoid markup and animation tasks are things that we (ATL and
Quantum Digital Arts (Rob Nixon)) will address in the Native Dancer
project- pending award of funding by NIH. At present we
(the ATL) are coordinating with a number of individuals, groups,
organizations, and particularly educational institutions (mostly
in Europe with a few in the US), on a range of proposed
projects that will involve markup language, ontology, and structured
vocabulary development for interoperability across and between human
heritage digital libraries applications, and at some levels
HumanMarkup Language will have vital roles- once it is mature- and
with regard for the (future) vision of a (realized and robust) HPCDML,
it has potential to play critical roles in a variety of arenas-
but we need to create it first, and it needs to be compatible with
what the rest of the world is working on- which is why, fopr example,
we are having the telecopnference today- to keep abreast of what other
teams are doing and determining how best to proceed and coordinate
more effectively, etc..
The Research Channel already exists- http://www.researchchannel.org/ and is closely affiliated
with Internet2- http://www.researchchannel.org/projects/i2wg/
and we (ATL) in collaboration with Rick Pettigrew, President
of the Archaeology Legacy Institute (ALI) and the Archaeology Channel
- see http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ are coordinating
our work with the RC-WG to develop more effective means for delivering
broadcast quality multicast of videos via the Internet.
...
Ranjeeth reported that he is excited by the new work going forward on
the Mediation SC, but that he previous commitment to liaisoning with
the eGov TC had proven unfeasible, so he is now going to concentrate
on using his connections via the Fund for the City of New York to work
on getting resources for HumanML work from the Non-profit sector
working with Neville Hughes, specifically to develop viable grant
proposals.
Sylvia suggested that in approaching the foundations who make grants
to Non-Profit organizations, it would be a good idea to package our
projects together so that the range of projects we have undertaken
will be apparent.
Ranjeeth mentioned that he was trying to get meetings with foundations
or associations of foundations which have exhibited an interest in
funding projects associated with conflict resolutions. In this regard
H-Net Matrix was mentioned. This is a project at the Michigan State
university which seeks to provide a common interface environment for
the Humanities.
A preliminary search on Google turned up two main components:
http://matrix.msu.edu/innermatrix/about.php
From the "About" page:
"Based at Michigan State University, MATRIX is devoted to the
application of new technologies in humanities and social science
teaching and research. The Center creates and maintains online
resources, provides training in computing and new teaching
technologies, and creates forums for the exchange of ideas and
expertise in new teaching technologies. ..."
http://www.h-net.org/
From the index/'home' page:
"H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of
scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational
potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and
web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and
discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing
heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters,
and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net
officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe.
..."
Rex Brooks reported that his uptake of the work of maintaining a
connection to the eGov TC is proceeding well, as part of the overall
work of initiating a Mediation Subcommittee, and opened the topic of
the proposed charter and mission statement for the Mediation SC.
Sylvia noted that she was struck most by the phrase, inviting
participation by individuals and organizations with "... an
interest in mitigating conflict." It was proposed, without
dissent that this phrase be highlighted prominently at the start of
the document.
James said that it was necessary to make a distinction between
standardized, structured vocabularies and formal legal
vocabularies.
Rex indicated that his use of the term "legal" was in the
formal sense, and it was agreed that the distinction, including
greater clarity with regard to including formal legal vocabularies as
one component of a Human Mediation Markup Language family of
vocabularies.
Sylvia noted that a database of case law, called Westlaw should be
consulted.
It turns out that Westlaw is a paid collection of databases maintained
by Thomson Media, the publisher which has recently published several
articles and reports by Russell Ruggiero and Rex Brooks.
http://web2.westlaw.com/signon/default.wl?bhcp=1
Sylvia also mentioned that building or finding a cross-disciplinary
thesaurus for Mediation would be a wise decision to take.
James and Sylvia both noted that the Mediation Charter and Mission
Statement needed to make it clear that this effort is aimed at
individuals as well as groups and organizations.
Russell reported that he had made arrangements to attend the first day
of the Federal Office Supply Exposition, FOSE, where the
"Emerging Components Third Quarterly Conference is being held
simultaneously. He will be attending the morning session:
"Scanning Small Business Innovations: A New Source for
Breakthrough eGovernment Performance." It should be noted
that Christopher Lakey's firm, Image Matters, which will be working
with us on SBIR/STTR Grant Proposals, will be making a presentation on
the second day. This conference is part of the overall set of such
initiatives which we have targetted and to which we made our
presentation at the EA Collaboration Expedition Workshop #30 in
December. So this effort works with the ongoing eGov TC
effort.
Russell also updated us on the latest writing project he and Rex are
working on, a report on Outsourcing, with particular attention paid to
the case study example of the film camera industry.
Roger Alexander, who recently apprised us of the upgrade of the
University of Texas' " 'Limited-Access Logic' Algernon"
rules-based inference engine to include the ability to work with W3C
OWL constructs as expressed in Stanford Medical Informatics' Protégé
application, reported that he is teaming up with Sylvia on her work,
while attending to his own efforts at Grant Proposal writing, and
preparing papers.
New member John Sarazen reported that he is working with Russell, and
with Rex, on the intersection of his work with Level 8's Cicero
call-center desktop application integration software suite and VXML
with particular emphasis on looking at the possibility of developing
an telephonic input application to the Common Alerting Protocol Rex is
working on in the Emergency Management TC applied in a WSRP
Portal-Portlet environment during an emergency scenario.
John noted that he had managed Speech Processing research at Bell Labs
in New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s.
Sylvia asked about his opinion of the the
Festival Speech Processing application ... 'speex', shipped
in Mandrake linux, ... and referred to it as a voice
generator.
Preliminary searches turned up:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
"The Festival Speech Synthesis System
Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed
at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as
well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis
techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command
interpreter for general control. ..."
CSTR is the Center for Speech Technology Research at the University of
Edinburgh.
Sylvia also mentioned something called
... various projects on ... argument acts, James Allen et
al. at University of Rochester. ... ( Thanks to James and Sylvia for their
corrections, and the writer still apologizes to Sylvia for the ...
misquote as well as John Sarazen and Rob Nixon, whose reports were
nearly missed.)
Preliminary research turned up ACT-R ...
(which, as Sylvia mentioned in her note for the corrections she
spotted) is, however of great interest.
...
http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/
"Welcome to ACT-R
ACT-R is a cognitive architecture: a theory for simulating and
understanding human cognition. Researchers working on ACT-R strive to
understand how people organize knowledge and produce intelligent
behavior. As the research continues, ACT-R evolves ever closer into a
system which can perform the full range of human cognitive tasks:
capturing in great detail the way we perceive, think about, and act on
the world. ..."
This coincides with both Sylvia's interest in Cognitive Studies, and
Carnegie Mellon University's former OZ Project as well as with its
current program using CSTR's Festival Speech Synthesis System. So, it
seems likely that this program is what she was referring to in what
the writer heard and noted as "ACT argument."
There is also a note at the end of the meeting referring to a
Mocrosoft v. ATT case over Codec 508, for which the only English
language reference found was:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:wlgN_La__JQJ:www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/books/voice-book-sample-chaps.pdf+%22Codec+508%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
This refers to a mobile wireless video/audio codec using for handheld
PDAs and is no doubt linked to the topic of developing pilot programs
or proofs of concept for the combined demonstrations the writer, Rex,
anticipates working on with John for on-scene updates to CAP alert
messages that simultaneously can be used for Incident Command System
uses.
Rob Nixon reported that he will be attending a game conference in San
Jose and that there may be opportunities as have been discussed in the
recent past for incorporating his work in both cognition and automated
behavior generation.
Rex apologizes for the somewhat disjoint nature of these last couple
of entries, with the note that once our subcommittees are more firmly
established, our TC meetings are likely to evolve in shorter sessions
for reports from these subcommittees, whose own meetings will be the
venues where more substantive work is done.
We adjourned at 1:25 p.m. Eastern Time.
--
Rex Brooks
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Email: rexb@starbourne.com
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