RE: [chairs] New OASIS Navigation

["John Greacen" <john@greacen.net>]

The treatment of all the LegalXML Member Section TCs seems appropriate
to me.

John M. Greacen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 1:30 PM
> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: 'Sharon Nuccio'
> Subject: [chairs] New OASIS Navigation
> 
> OASIS TC chairs,
> Thank you all for your cooperation on bringing consistency and brevity
to
> our TC descriptions. The alphabetical list of TCs at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/committees.php is now much more
> useful.
> 
> The second step in enhancing OASIS web site navigation will be to make
it
> easier for visitors to locate specific OASIS TCs and to get an idea of
the
> breadth of OASIS work and relationships between TCs. The current,
> extremely
> lengthy, left vertical navigation on the OASIS public pages lists more
> than
> 60 TCs, some by topic, some by TC acronym, some by spec name, and some
by
> spec acronym. For visitors new to OASIS, finding a specific TC or
getting
> a
> sense for the scope of OASIS technical work can be very challenging.
> 
> To address these issues, OASIS is revising our public left nav, so
that
> visitors can locate a TC by name (on the alphabetical list) and by
> category
> of work.
> 
> With guidance from the TAB, OASIS has grouped all of our TCs into nine
> categories. The revised left nav will list categories with links to
pages
> that provide descriptions for TCs directly related to that category.
> 
> You can get a preview of the categories and how the new left nav will
> appear
> at our dev site, http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index_nav.php.
> 
> Our goal is to feature each TC on the one category that is most
> descriptive
> of its work. In a few unavoidable cases, TCs are listed in more than
one
> category to accommodate what we anticipate will be multiple
common-sense
> assumptions by visitors. Please let me know if you feel your TC has
been
> incorrectly assigned to a category by COB on Monday. We'll transition
to
> the
> new nav as soon as possible next week.
> 
> Again, we appreciate your assistance in making the OASIS web site a
better
> showcase of your work.
> 
> Regards,
> Carol
> 
> 
> ______________________________
> Carol Geyer
> Director of Communications
> OASIS
> Voice: +1.978.667.5115 x209
> 
>