TC Meeting Minutes 06-22-05

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Folks,

Here it is, at last. Sorry for the delay. However, I usually do try 
to get the Minutes out by the end of the weekend following our 
Wednesday meetings. Please note that several documents have been 
referred to that I have uploaded to the document repository.

HumanMarkup TC Meeting June 22, 2005 Minutes

Roll:
Voting Members:
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Russell Ruggiero
Sylvia Candelaria de Ram
Rex Brooks

OASIS TC Administrative Advisor
Mary McRae

This was our first meeting in several months, owing at least partly 
to a family emergency with which co-chair Rex Brooks has been 
coping.So, it was inappropriate to approval previous minutes at this 
time.

An agenda was posted, and just prior to addressing it, Rex announced 
that James Landrum III had withdrawn from our group, requiring Rex to 
assume the chair of the HPCDML SC, which has also been in a similar 
hiatus.

Given that, we started by acknowledging Mary McRae's acceptance of 
our invitation to work with us on extending our outreach to attract 
new members and re-energize our TC.

We departed somewhat from our agenda to address thismost pressing 
need, inviting Mary to advise us on how we can best work with her and 
the OASIS administration to further this important work.

Mary expressed the opinion of the OASIS administration team incuding 
her and Jamie Clark that they can help us and direct publicity 
efforts our way if we have committee approved drafts which can be 
used to direct public interest to as a resource.

Rex informed her that we do have one piece of work which is 
undergoing revision at this time and which does meet that 
requirement. It is the Primary Base XML Schema which we approved as a 
Committee Draft in March 2003.

Further, Rex reported that he had submitted a new revision to the 
document repository for both the XML Schema of the Primary Base and 
the RDF-OWL representation of the Primary Base just prior to the 
meeting. It is in the Drafts Folder.

Sylvia reported that she had taken that work and updated it with a 
non-normative overview that goes beyond the work Rex had done in 
reorganizing it in a more comprehensive way to achieve a more unified 
conceptual approach.

The primary base revision was necessitated, Rex reminded us, due to 
the fact that a number of sequences and restrictions containing 
simpleType element examples within complexTypes had been included. 
These were included only for the purpose of demonstrating the intent 
of making the primary base a core profile consisting of categories 
for which futher work in the form of secondary language 
specifications for those categories or for importing existing 
specifications for inclusion in the overall structure of the Human 
Markup Language Family would be added subsequently.

Regardless, the document which Sylvia had sent to Rex was discussed 
and preliminary consensus appears to be that we will use it as the 
basis for moving forward. It has been uploaded to the Document 
Repository in the Drafts Folder.

1.Rex reported that a new Pilot for the Semantic Interoperability 
Architecture effort in the Semantic Interoperability Community of 
Practice has been undertaken through Humanmarkup.org, Inc. That will 
install and maintain a portal with the capabilities presented during 
the last two years. This concept is embodied in the SWANS 
presentation that has been uploaded to the HumanMarkup TC Document 
Repository in the Presentations Folder. This includes material 
presented over these last two years at Collaboration Expedition 
Workshops in Washington, D.C. and in XML 2004 last November. The hope 
is that by having a publicly available website that demonstrates the 
functionalities of personalizable information sharing and emergency 
alerting, we will be better able to explain our work and the direct 
benefits it will provide the public and the business world.
2.Rex is assuming the role of chair for HPCDML SC. Rex said he would 
contact Michelle to see if she is still willing and, more 
importantly, able to take on the chair of the Mediation SC.
3.We decided on continuing work on the revision of the Primary Base 
as our deliverable with an end of year target for delivering the 
combined XML and RDF Schemas and the OWL Ontology.

On a further note, for the purpose of providing a White Paper for 
HumanML, Rex asked Ranjeeth if he would consent to having the work he 
has been doing with Jay Peltz be used for that purpose, and Rex said 
he would ask Jay as well. Ranjeeth assented, and Jay has expressed 
his interest, both in having the work used for that purpose as well 
as finding a publisher, which Russell said he is working on, and 
Russell also said that the paper in question is to be the basis for a 
presentation to the Collaboration Expedition Workshop, carrying on 
our association with that InterAgency effort being conducted through 
the GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions.

Rex said he would put together a package of the materials for which 
he has permission, which would then be sent to Mary for the purpose 
of helping us attract more active members.

As always, please sent corrections, notes, comments.




Ciao,
Rex



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