Hi:
I think this request merits some attention from our TC.
Although the request was addressed to me as OASIS Board chair, I talked with Karel and Vassilios about this when I was last in Brussels and was somewhat involved when the whole project started, and I mentioned to them about the S-RAMP TC and my belief that this would be the best forum for any feedback.
Item b) is of particular interest
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Peter
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From: Karel.DE-VRIENDT@ec.europa.eu [mailto:Karel.DE-VRIENDT@ec.europa.eu]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 January, 2011 02:19
To: peter.brown@oasis-open.org
Cc: Vassilios.PERISTERAS@ec.europa.eu; peter@peterfbrown.com
Subject: SEMIC Core Concepts development
Dear Peter,
SEMIC.EU (1) is a European Commission portal that promotes EU Member States interoperability by facilitating the sharing of semantic assets amongst public administrations. The SEMIC.EU platform operates for 3 years now and stores already over 500 registered semantic assets which pass through an extensive and well-documented conformance process.
Our intention is to extend our current asset conformance process in order to populate a library of a small number of high quality and core (meaning highly reusable) semantic assets that have gone through well-defined revision cycles and are discussed and endorsed by representatives of the Member States. Our ultimate goal is to promote reuse of such assets and adoption in national interoperability and/or metadata frameworks. We call these schemas Core Concepts.
To this direction, there are already two metadata schemas which are candidate to be presented and discussed with the MSs in early March:
a) the Core Person schema (2), which has been extensively discussed in the SEMIC community
b) the Asset Description Metadata Schema (3), which will serve as a generic metadata schema for a semantic asset description
Counting on your experience and on potential interest from your community, we would like to kindly invite you to participate in our effort and contribute to the process of Core Concepts definition.
If you are interested in this work, please contact Vassilios Peristeras who is the responsible project manager in our Unit for SEMIC, at vassilios.peristeras@ec.europa.eu, or +32 2 29 81014.
Kind regards,
Karel De Vriendt
Head of Unit
European Commission
Directorate-general for Informatics
Interoperability solutions for European public administrations (ISA)
http://ec.europa.eu/isa
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics
(P.S. Similar letter have been addressed to CEN/CENELEC, ETSI, ISO TC 154, OASIS, W3C, UN/CEFACT)
(1) http://www.semic.eu/
(2) http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/snav/Conformance/specification.xhtml?cid=8093
(3) http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/snav/network/Communities/ADMS.xhtml