[stdsreg] Stdsreg Committee meeting #5 minutes [N013]

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Standards Registry Committee document #13
Minutes of Standards Registry Commttee
Conference Call #5  23 April 2002


The following Persons attended:

Bob Hager, Karl Best, Luc Van der Berghe (for John Ketchell), Mark
Norton, Martin Bryan, Robin Cover, Sally Fuger, Beatrice Gbatte


1	Introduction

	Roll call and welcome from Karl Best.

2	Approval of records of fourth meeting

	The minutes was accepted with the following corrections: in the
clarification regarding Action 3.2, reference should be made to IT
rather than to ICT. It was Sally Fuger who had said a few words about
ebXML registry and not Karen Boehme. Action 4.3 was therefore on Sally,
not on Karen.

3	Review of the status of action items

	In relation to action 4.1 Bob Hager summarised information sent to the
list relating to the ISONET classification of documents. He expressed
the view that the ISONET classification was a good input but felt it was
too ISO specific and too wide in scope.

	Concerning action 4.2 Bob raised the issues of suitability of ICS. Is
it sufficiently covering the IT-domain?  Is it appropriate or not? Do we
really want to provide a recommended scheme to people?

	Some participants were of the opinion that there should be no specific
classification scheme created. Instead we should provide space for
people to select their preferred classification.

	Others had some reservations about this suggestion. They felt that
users looking for a specific topic may have difficulties to find it if
no classification scheme isdefined. Without a harmonised classification,
how should people to search for information?

	No unanimous support was reached in the meeting  for the two possible
options: either to allow a number of schemes or to identify a specific
scheme for usage.


	A compromise suggestion was made by Mark Norton. His proposal was for a
transformation of the queries between the  local representation
classification scheme and the outgoing representation classification
scheme (based on the Z39.50 experience).

	Action 1 Mark Norton to write a proposal on classification scheme by 7
May, in time  for the next meeting.

	With regard to action 4.3, Sally Fuger summarized the information sent
to the list about a first ebXML registry implementation by Hong Kong
University.

	Action 2 Sally to send metadata information generated by the ebXML
Directory activity to the list.

	Some further contributions to test the strawman proposal had been
received . The strawman  seemed reasonably OK, with the exception of
some identified aspects such as multiple references, multiple layers of
titles, etc.

	Action 3 Bob Hager to produce a list of issues relating to the strawman
proposal.

4	What can we report at June Interop Summit?

	The meeting agreed that a report had to be presented at the Interop
Summit. But delivery of the full outcome of our activities will not be
possible by then. The report should describe the goal of the Committee,
give an overview of the Committee deliverables, what the Committee had
discussed so far etc...

5	IPR issues: need a better IPR statement?

	Karl Best explained that this issue had been raised by the OASIS Board
of Directors. There is a need to clarify Intellectual Property aspects.
The meeting agreed to discuss this issue at the next meeting.

6	US government GA report: need for standards registries

	This point was postponed to the next meeting. It was advised to read
about this  matter at  the relevant on URL.

7	Review additional recruitment efforts

	Bob reported that he had contact with two persons from IBM. Contacts
were also in place with DCMI and OCLC, as well as with NIST (see above
US government GA report).

	The next meeting will also discuss the requirements paper suggested by
Robin.  This document  also will be particularly relevant to attract new
people.

8	Any other business

Next meeting will be held on 7 May and will be hosted by Monica Vago
(INCITS)

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