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Peter,
I hope the cyclist was OK too! Been there
done that!!
On the coordination front on semantic alignment -
please
include OASIS CAM work in this too.
I am presenting on CAM next week at NIST for the
OAGi
meeting, and I've also incorporated the work
Duane
has done with the Canadian Government and
registry
into this tutorial. Being able to
manage vocabulary
and semantic use is a particular feature of
CAM
templates.
I'll be able to share those slides next week along
with
all the open source tools for doing this
yourself.
This initiative idea thru eGov sounds good and
should
compliment the existing project work we have
started
around the MOD use case that Paul Spencer
is
working.
Thanks, DW
p.s. You were luck it wasn't Duane on that bike -
he's
still
sore after his Canucks got nuked in the
play-offs!!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:46
AM
Subject: [egov] Back in one
piece...
To those of you who were in
Amsterdam:
Apologies for my sudden
disappearance on Wednesday morning – as some of you know, I took a tumble
after a collision with an Amsterdam cyclist*, and my subsequent visit
to the clinic meant that I missed out on Wednesday's proceedings. Thanks for
the many get well messages and expressions of concern, and I can assure you
that there are no broken bones just a few sore muscles and feeling a bit
phased.
On a more business like note,
the eGov TC is interested that we now make a formal approach to the European
Standards Agency, the CEN, and the European Commission, to launch a piece of
work on "semantic interoperability", along the lines discussed in different
ways during the two days of workshops in Amsterdam. One caveat – quite
correctly – is that this should complement the work of, and progress in tandem
with, the other OASIS TCs working in this field. I would include ebXML RegRep
Semantic, Topic Maps Published Subjects and UBL-NDRSC. Personally, I see some
very powerful synergies to be developed between the Topic Maps paradigm and
the ebXML methodology and registry infrastructure
After getting feedback from the
eEnvoy's office and Ann Wrightson, I will finalise a "business plan" (based on
the first draft) for John Borras and I to sign and submit to
CEN.
All the
best,
Peter
* Having only recently
re-acclimatised to the UK (who of course drive the "wrong" way and on the
wrong side of the road), my instincts were momentarily confused being back on
the European mainland, and looked out the "wrong" way when crossing a cycle
path too quickly: "right" was "wrong" and should have been "left"…context is
everything, no?
;-)
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