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Subject: OASIS News 14 October 2005
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OASIS News 14 October 2005
Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Board Outlines OASIS Strategy
A new document outlining a three- to five-year strategy for accomplishing the Consortium’s mission has just been published by the OASIS Board of Directors. The plan addresses the needs of the current membership, prospective members, and all those using or affected by OASIS work. Many thanks to Frederick Hirsch of Nokia and all that served on the OASIS Board Strategy Committee for their efforts in producing this document.
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/strategy.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Issues Call for Participation for New Semantic Execution Environment TC
This week, the Consortium announced the formation of the OASIS Semantic Execution Environment (SEE) TC. The aim of the TC will be to provide guidelines, justifications and implementation directions for an execution environment for Semantic Web services. The work of this committee will be relevant to parties interested in Web services and SOA. The inaugural meeting will be sponsored by DERI and will be held via telephone on 11 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200510/msg00005.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS WSRF TC Submits Documents for Public Review
The OASIS Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) TC has submitted WS-Resource Framework specifications for public review. WSRF defines an open framework for modeling and accessing stateful resources using Web services. The package includes WS-Resource, WS-ResourceProperties, WS-ResourceLifetime, WS-ServiceGroup, and WS-BaseFaults specifications. All interested parties are encouraged to submit commentary by 28 Oct.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200510/msg00006.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosgrove-Sacks Joins OASIS; European Staff Expands
Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks has joined OASIS as Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy, responsible for liaison with European and international organizations. For the past 11 years, Carol served as Director of the Trade Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe [UNECE] in Geneva. She is a part-time Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges: Professor; a Visiting Professor at Europa Institute, Basel University; and a Board Member at the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, UK. She speaks English, French, and German and is based in Geneva.
The OASIS European staff has also expanded to include Kurt Sollod, who will be responsible for identifying and supporting new members in Europe. Kurt has a CEP from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He speaks French and English and is based in Paris.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Seeks to Expand Staff
The Consortium is seeking qualified applicants to fill the following staff positions: Manager of Asian-Pacific Development, Director of Business Development & Adoption Services, Program Assistant, and Systems Administrator/Web Developer.
http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/
---------------------------------------------------------------------- USGS Announces Use of CAP Messages for Earthquakes
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently announced a new service that provides Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages for reviewed reports of earthquake events. The CAP OASIS Standard is a data interchange specification for alert and event notification applications. USGS CAP alerts will be posted to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/catalogs/cap/.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Onsite Registration Still Available for OASIS Adoption Forum
The annual OASIS Adoption Forum will be the 17-18 Oct at the Hilton Metropole in London. Attendees that have no yet registered may do so at the onsite registration desk. Registration fees are 300 USD for OASIS members and 400 USD for non-members. The fee includes all sessions, luncheon, coffee breaks, and associated materials as well as OpenDocument and DITA Focus event.
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events
17-18 Oct OASIS Adoption Forum OpenDocument and DITA Focus London, United Kingdom http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/index.php These events are hosted by OASIS.
17-18 Oct Service Oriented Architectures Conference Houston, TX, USA http://www.opengroup.org/houston2005/ This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
17-19 Oct Business Process eXcellence Summit San Diego, CA, USA http://www.delphigroup.com/events/05_bpx/index.htm This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
18-19 Oct SOA and Web Services Best Practices Chicago, IL, USA http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/singlecell.html?topic=233&event=7776 Peter Roden, OASIS staff, will be speaking. This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
19-21 Oct SOA Summit San Diego, CA, USA http://www.delphigroup.com/events/05_SOA/index.htm This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
21 Oct OASIS Open Standards Day Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore http://www.xmlone.org/oasis-event.htm This event is cosponsored by OASIS. Patrick Gannon will be the keynote speaker.
26-28 Oct OASIS Open Standards Day Australia Sydney, Australia Patrick Gannon will be the keynote speaker.
2-3 Nov DITA Europe Conference 2005 Frankfurt, Germany http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/index.htm This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
6-10 Nov Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) Galway, Ireland http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/ This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
7-10 Nov Data Management and Information Quality Conference Europe 2005 London, UK http://www.irmuk.co.uk/dm2005/ This event is cosponsored by OASIS. There is an OASIS members only discount.
7-11 Nov LISA Forum Europe Zurich, Switzerland http://www.lisa.org/events/2005zurich/index.html?from=m4h&sid=051e32b8df4ec18aca67ad5a72106c6e This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
8-10 Nov Demonstrating the Value of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Melbourne, Australia http://www.ark-group.com/home/events/event.asp?eventid=B53F691C-8E66-4329-B1E5-57939B09E8F8 This event is cosponsored by OASIS.
8-10 Nov BuilConn Europe 2005 Amsterdam, Netherlands http://www.builconn.com/default.asp This event is cosponsored by OASIS. There is an OASIS members only discount.
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