TC Meeting Minutes 12-29-04

December 29, 2004

Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee.

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Roll Call:
Voting Members:

Rex Brooks
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Russell Ruggiero
Dr. Sylvia Candelaria De Ram
Michelle Raymond

Observers:
Mary McRae

Invited Guests:
Marion Reinson
William "Bil" Taylor

Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks

Meeting convened 12:05 p.m. Eastern Time.

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

We had a quorum. As a result, decisions indicated in these minutes are approved.

Old Business:

(Note: this varies from the agenda because the normal reports covered the agenda topics, though not in chronological order, hence the order here.)

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were accepted. (Previous minutes were for September, since October's meeting was postponed due to lack of advance notification and overlap with the October 19, 2004 Collaboration Expedition Workshop where the presentation made by Rex Brooks with Oracle Corp won a "Breakthrough Award," but was scheduled the week before the TC meeting, while November's meeting was also postponed due to XML 2004, where we were represented as part and parcel of OASIS in a speaking presentation made by Rex Brooks. Both presentations will be uploaded to our document repository along with some other new materials in Jan. 2005.)

2. Most of the agenda was covered in the course of the reports of current activities.

Ranjeeth led off with a brief report on the December 6th Collaboration Expedition Workshop, http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardCoherenceInKnowledgeThroughAllThingsOntological_MakingSenseTogether_2004_12_09 where he spoke to Susan B. Turnbull, Senior Program Advisor, Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Office of Citizen Services and Communications, US General Services Administration about preparing a collaborative effort involving the concepts of HumanML in an interactive live and possibly including remote conferencing feedback application that could track individual and collective audience response during a conference in real time. He said he hoped to speak or correspond with Susan early in January to pursue this concept, saying that her initial response was to suggest that we include multiple vendors. It was suggested that we tap our contacts in the MIT Media Lab as well as SiloSmashers through Ken Sall, who demonstrated a prototype of such a mechanism at an XML Working Group, (now recast as the XML Community of Practice following the decision to adopt such nomenclature across these inter-governmental cross-cutting explorations of emergent technologies, following the lead of the Web-Services Working Group which has been recast as the Semantic Web Interoperability Community of Practice).

This suggestion stimulated another suggestion that this might also lend itself to including the conepts of personalization inherent in Michelle Raymond's paper and presentation to Extreme Markup 2004, which will be uploaded to the TC Document Repository in the Presentations folder.

The highlight the connection to our work through the liaison to the Emergency Management TC and the Web Services for Remote Portlets TC, the XML 2004 presentation Rex Brooks delivered will also be uploaded to the TC Document Repository.

It was also suggested that we should contact Mark Frautschi and Brand Niemann about this topic with an eye toward highlighting such conference report generated from an application that tracks feedback in relation to topic being presented.

4a. Rex reported on the work that is being conducted in an inter-agency effort related to the Data Reference Model of the Federal Enterprise Architecture effort to arrive at a unified or harmonized set of definitions for the concept of a "Person" especially in regard to the recently announced effort by Michael Daconta, head of the Department of Homeland Security's Metadata Program to develop a base profile vocabulary and data model through a Core Data Types Focus Group. Since HumanML treats "Person" as a subclass of "Human" by importing the relevant namespaces for other vocabularies which specifically use this term, such as the Human Resources XML Consortium, our work in this area will need to be represented in this admittedly limited national effort. Rex pointed out that, while it pertains to the United States, it has clear international implications which must also be addressed.

4b. Russell suggested that one way to get the word out about our work would be to follow up on the crossover topic of personalization in emergency alerting by writing and publishing an article about it similar to the series of articles he and Rex have authored over the course of the last two years. Michelle agreed to work with Russell on such an article and will give us a status report on it at next month's meeting.

5. Rex mentioned that James notified him that he would be in Hawaii during this meeting, so the HPCDML SC business was postponed till then, with the note that there are significant overlaps in the various definitions of "Person" that relate to electronic health records and that James' liaison connection through Sandy Ressler at NIST to the Web 3D Consortium's Medical Working Group should be explored in this regard.

6. Michelle asked about and was encouraged to get started on her work in taking on the chair role in the Mediation SC by reviewing the Charter of the SC, in preparation to begin outreach to build participation in the Human Preferences and Personalization Markup Language.

Michelle mentioned that she was aware of an organization in the UK workinging on a Healthcare Vocabulary, and it was noted that she and Rex are both members of the International Health Continuum TC.

New Business: This prompted some discussion of methodology for developing standards and Mary McRae suggested this might be a good topic for submitting to the OASIS Symposium in New Orleans in April, and Sylvia mentioned that her work with the "CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) [which] provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation" from 2003 which she has been developing further might be useful in that regard, especially since it provides a good understanding of Reference Model efforts. Rex also agreed that he would work up an abstract before the deadline on Jan. 12, 2005 on the topic of "A Standard Methodology for Developing Standards." While it was not discussed at the time, Rex will be asking for help from the TC in building this effort if it is accepted for presentation. It might also be interesting to compare and contrast the objectives of distinctly different kinds of Reference Models.

2. Rex indicated that he would have a revised version of the matching XML and RDF/OWL Schemata for the Primary Base XML and RDF Schemata before the next meeting because XMLSPY 2005 is allowing a 30-day evaluation license he will be using along with Protégé using its OWL plugin. This will be taken into consideration along with other variables for the TC to revise its projected deliverables for 2005 at next month's TC meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 1:10 p.m. Eastern Time.

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