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Subject: Proposed Charter for OASIS UOML TC
To OASIS Members: A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the Unstructured Operations Markup Language (UOML) Technical Committee. In accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2 (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.2) the proposed charter is hereby submitted for comment. The comment period shall remain open until 11:45 pm ET on 26 December 2006. OASIS maintains a mailing list for the purpose of submitting comments on proposed charters. Any OASIS member may post to this list by sending email to: mailto:oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org All messages will be publicly archived at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/ Members who wish to receive emails must join the group by selecting "join group" on the group home page: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oasis-charter-discuss/ Employees of organizational members do not require primary representative approval to subscribe to the oasis-charter-discuss e-mail. A telephone conference will be held among the Convener, the OASIS TC Administrator, and those proposers who wish to attend within four days of the close of the comment period. The announcement and call-in information will be noted on the OASIS Charter Discuss Group Calendar. We encourage member comment and ask that you note the name of the proposed TC (UOML) in the subject line of your email message. Regards, Mary --------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org phone: 603.232.9090 OASIS Symposium: "eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and Future" 15-18 April 2007 San Diego, CA USA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/ =========== PROPOSED CHARTER FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT OASIS UNSTRUCTURED OPERATION MARKUP LANGUAGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Name OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML) Technical Committee Statement of Purpose The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based operation standard for unstructured documents. The Unstructured Operation Markup Language specification will define an XML schema for universal document operations. The schema is suitable for operating printable documents, including create, view, modify, and query information, that can be printed on paper, e.g. books, magazine, newspaper, office documents, maps, drawings, blueprints, but is not restricted to these kinds of documents. There are several commercial and free applications available based on the current draft of UOML cited below, with more currently under development. Scope The resulting specification must meet the following requirements: * It must be suitable for printable documents. * It must define universal operations to these documents, including create, view, modify, query and retrieve. * It must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications, * It must process layout-based information suitable for presenting the document, * It must be friendly to document related applications. * It must be cross-platform and program language independent. The existing UOML.org XML format specification was developed to meet the above criteria. It is anticipated that it will be contributed to the TC as a starting point for its work. A standard for document operation will be of great utility to many users and software companies developing applications, and should be made available as soon as possible. Deliverables The work of this TC has been divided in[to]whiletwo phases: 1. In the first phase, the TC will review and adapt proven and established constructs so that the resulting specification can satisfy the immediate needs of many users, as well as serve as a base for future, less restricted development. The work of this TC in the first phase will concentrate on the following areas: * establishing a mechanism and policy for extensions, preferably relying on XML namespaces, * establishing a set of 'core' elements and attributes to be supported by all implementations, * incorporating feedback from early adopters of the contributed input specification and fixing technical problems that may have been uncovered, and * ensuring that the resulting specification and documentation are consistent and of high quality. The TC will issue a first working draft of the UOML specification by March 31, 2007. 2. In the second phase, this TC will maintain and extend the specification delivered in Phase 1 to encompass additional areas of applications or users, which may also include adapting the specification to recent developments. The work of this TC in the second phase will additionally allow for the following areas: * enabling additional areas of application, * exploring new or experimental ideas for document operation, and * extending the expressiveness of the operation. The TC will aim to deliver the second draft as a Committee Draft by August 31, 2007 and to submit it for balloting by OASIS membership as an OASIS Standard. The TC also may choose to submit completed and approved work to other organizations in accordance with the OASIS Liaison Policy, while retaining the responsibility for the maintenance of its specifications. Each of the drafts will include a set of XML schemas setting the vocabulary, constraints and semantics of each operation in question, and a set of written specifications that describe the elements and attributes of the schemas in plain English. The TC may deliver additional Committee Drafts approximately once per year. Anticipated audience: The anticipated audience for this work includes, but is not restricted to: * makers of document related applications; * Docbase providers; and * Other specification writers that need document operations or parts of it. Language The TC shall conduct its proceedings in English. IPR Mode The TC will operate under the RAND Mode under the OASIS IPR Policy. Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC Related and similar work Developers and users of office application and document formatting specifications such as the OASIS OpenDocument Format ("ODF") may find UOML useful. However, UOML addresses a different set of functions. The proposed UOML specification will operate on layout-based formatting information, rather than content-based formatting information (such as ODF). UOML will limit its functions to abstracting data from paper form, and defines an operation interface, rather than a file storage format. Anticipated contributions It is expected that the existing UOML specification will be contributed to the TC by Sursen Co., along with possible additional contributions from HanWang Technology Co., TRS Information Technology Co., Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., and the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Proposed working title UOML specification Proposed date, time, and location of first TC meeting Date: February 6, 2007 [*subject to confirmation*] Time: 11:00 AM Eastern U.S. Duration: 2 Hours Mode: Teleconference Telephone: To be decided prior to the first meeting Sponsor: Sursen Co. On-going schedule Bi-weekly 90 Minute teleconferences sponsored by Sursen Co. Proposers: Fang Gu, fanggmy@126.com, Changfeng Alliance Andy Lee, javola@vip.sina.com, Changfeng Alliance Charles H Schulz, charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com., Ars Aperta Alex Wang, dlwang@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Liwei Wang, wangliwei@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Bo Yan, yanbo@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Convener: Alex Wang, CEO of Sursen Co., dlwang@sursen.com ====
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