Re: [search-ws] Fwd: [members] Proposed Charter for OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) TC

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

Let's discuss at this morning's call. --Ray

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From: "Kerry Blinco" <kblinco@powerup.com.au>
To: <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: [search-ws] Fwd: [members] Proposed Charter for OASIS Content
Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) TC


Ray

do we comment on other oasis charters such as this?  The charter
mentions
> * To assess the relationship of CMIS to other related standards and
> industry
> efforts.  These include JCR (JSR-170, JSR-283), WebDAV, and other
> relevant
> standards.

I would think the relationship to this sws activity might also be
relevant?

regards
Kerry

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> From: "Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
> Date: 11 September 2008 9:31:20 AM
> To: <members@lists.oasis-open.org>, <tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Cc: <oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: [members] Proposed Charter for OASIS Content Management
> Interoperability Services (CMIS) TC
> Reply-To: <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
>
> To OASIS Members:
>
>   A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the OASIS Content
> Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee
> (below). In
> accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2:
> (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/
> process-2008-06-19.php#formation) the
> proposed charter is hereby submitted for comment. The comment
> period shall
> remain open until 11:45 pm ET on 24 September 2008.
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> ===========
> PROPOSED CHARTER FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT
> 1A Name of the TC:
>
> OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical
> Committee
>
> 1B Statement of Purpose:
>
> Historically content management systems were purchased for specific
> application uses and this led to islands of incompatible systems.
> The lack
> of a standard interface to content management systems made it
> difficult to
> integrate content from multiple repositories into a single
> application such
> as a portal, CRM system, or office desktop. It also made it
> difficult for
> ISVs and integrators to build applications that supported multiple
> content
> management systems consistently or easily.
>
> The purpose of the Content Management Interoperability Services
> (CMIS) TC
> will define a domain model including a data model and abstract
> capabilities
> for Content Management (CM) and a set of bindings that can be used by
> applications to work with one or more Content Management
> Repositories/systems and that can be implemented by content
> repositories and
> enable interoperability across repositories for the set of use
> cases below.
> These capabilities and interfaces will not match every existing
> content
> management system and may require some level of change to existing
> products,
> at least in terms of conforming existing interfaces to those
> defined here.
> However, it is an explicit goal that CMIS Domain Model and Bindings
> will NOT
> require major product changes or significant data model changes in
> existing
> major CM repositories.
>
> As such, the CMIS TC should define a domain model and bindings that
> are
> designed to be layered on top of existing Content Management
> systems and
> their existing programmatic interfaces. This TC should not
> prescribe how
> specific features should be implemented within those ECM systems.
> This TC is
> intended to define a generic/universal set of capabilities provided
> by an
> ECM system and a set of services for working with those capabilities.
>
> 1C Scope of work:
>
> The TC will accept as input Version 0.5 of the CMIS specification as
> published by EMC, IBM and Microsoft on September 10th, 2008. The
> specification is located at:
> * http://community.emc.com/community/labs/cmis
> *
> http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/cm-
> interoperablity-servi
> ces.html
> * http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/ecm/cmis.mspx
>
> Other contributions and changes to the input documents will be
> accepted for
> consideration without any prejudice or restrictions and evaluated
> based on
> technical merit in so far as they conform to this charter.
>
> The initial set of deliverables will be targeted for the following use
> cases:
> * Collaborative Content Applications
> * Portals leveraging Content Management repositories
> * Mashups
>
> The following use cases should be able to be supported by CMIS
> Domain Model
> and Bindings, but are not primary drivers:
> * Workflow and BPM-centric applications utilizing Content
> * Archival Applications
> * Compound and Virtual Documents
> * Electronic and Legal Discovery
> The following use cases are out of scope for the initial set of
> deliverables:
> * Records Management and Compliance
> * Digital Asset Management
> * Web Content Management
> * Subscription and Notification Services
>
>
> Also, this TC will engage in maintenance of the specifications
> produced by
> this TC.
>
> The tasks of the TC include:
> * To articulate the principles of the interoperable content management
> through formal specifications
> * To assess the relationship of CMIS to other related standards and
> industry
> efforts.  These include JCR (JSR-170, JSR-283), WebDAV, and other
> relevant
> standards.
> * To define appropriate specifications for interoperable content
> management
>   o Including schemas, such as XSD
>   o Including service definitions, such as WSDL
> * To standardize the common types of entities and capabilities in CM
> * To encourage cooperation within and between the various topical
> domains
> and groups
>
> Maintenance
>
> Once the TC has completed work on a deliverable and it has become
> an OASIS
> standard, the TC will enter "maintenance mode" for the deliverable.
>
> The purpose of maintenance mode is to provide minor revisions to
> previously
> adopted deliverables to clarify ambiguities, inconsistencies and
> obvious
> errors. Maintenance mode is not intended to enhance a deliverable
> or extend
> its functionality.
>
> The TC will collect issues raised against the deliverables and
> periodically
> process those issues. Issues that request or require new or enhanced
> functionality shall be marked as enhancement requests and set
> aside. Issues
> that result in the clarification or correction of the deliverables
> shall be
> processed. The TC shall maintain a list of these adopted
> clarifications and
> shall periodically create a new minor revision of the deliverables
> including
> these updates. Periodically, but at least once a year, the TC shall
> produce
> and vote upon a new minor revision of the deliverables.
>
> After the first set of deliverables, the TC will continue to work
> on the
> next versions of the specification.  The next versions can address
> new or
> refine existing use cases by extending the domain model as well as
> defining
> new bindings as appropriate to support Interoperable Content
> Management.
>
> 1D List of Deliverables:
>
> The initial set of deliverables and projected duration:
> * CMIS Domain model specification (September 2009)
> * CMIS SOAP-based Web Services binding specification (September 2009)
> * CMIS REST/Atom-based Web Services binding specification
> (September 2009)
>
> 1E IPR Mode:
>
> The IP mode for the TC will be RF on RAND.
>
> 1F Audience for the TC:
>
> The primary audience for the final output of this TC includes ECM
> and BCS
> application architects and ECM repository architects and implementers.
>
> 1G The language in which the TC shall conduct business:
>
> English
>
> 2 – Non-normative information
> 2A identification of similar or applicable work that is being done
> in other
> OASIS TCs or by other organizations:
> WebDAV: Not targeting ECM and does not provide a CM domain model
> JCR: Java based specification and does not specify a protocol
>
> 2B Date, time and place of the first TC meeting:
> * 12PM EDT/9AM PDT, 11/10/2008, conference call hosted by EMC
>
> 2C On-going meeting schedule:
> The CMIS TC will meet by telephone every other week at Monday 9AM
> PST.  The
> time, date and recurrence of the periodic phone call will be
> confirmed at
> the first TC meeting.  The meetings will last no more than two
> hours.  The
> CMIS TC will hold face-to-face meetings 3 times a year for three days
> starting:
> * 1/19/2009 (Redmond, Washington, hosted by Ethan Gur-esh, Microsoft)
>
> 2D names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of
> at least
> Minimum Membership
> Albert Brown, albertcbrown@us.ibm.com, IBM
> Cornelia Davis, Davis_Cornelia@emc.com, EMC
> Craig Randall, Randall_Craig@emc.com, EMC
> Derek Carr, dwcarr@us.ibm.com, IBM
> David Caruana, david.caruana@alfresco.com, Alfresco
> David Choy, Choy_David@emc.com, EMC
> Dustin Friesenhahn, dustinfr@microsoft.com, Microsoft
> Paul Goetz, paul.goetz@sap.com, SAP
> Ethan Gur-esh, ethang@microsoft.com, Microsoft
> Martin Hermes, martin.hermes@sap.com, SAP
> Jens Hübel, jhuebel@opentext.com, Open Text
> Ryan McVeigh, ryan.mcveigh@oracle.com, Oracle
> Gregory Melahn, melahn@us.ibm.com, IBM
> Pat Miller, patmill@microsoft.com, Microsoft
> Florian Müller, fmueller@opentext.com, Open Text
> John Newton, john.newton@alfresco.com, Alfresco
> Norrie Quinn, quinn_norrie@emc.com, EMC
> Steve Roth, steve.roth@oracle.com, Oracle
>
> 2E Convener
> Al Brown, IBM, albertcbrown@us.ibm.com
>
> 2G Input Specifications
> CMIS Part I – Domain Model v0.5
> CMIS Part II – Web Services Binding v0.5
> CMIS Part II – REST-Atom Binding v0.5
> CMIS -- Appendices v0.5
> (Available at:
> * http://community.emc.com/community/labs/cmis
> *
> http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/cm-
> interoperablity-servi
> ces.html
> * http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/ecm/cmis.mspx   )
>
> 2I Proposed Specification Titles
> Content Management Interoperability Specification, Domain Model
> Content Management Interoperability Specification, Web Service Binding
> Content Management Interoperability Specification, REST/Atom Binding
>
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