[xtm-wg] Proposal for inviting David Steinberg as a guest.

["Michel Biezunski" <mb@infoloom.com>]

I would like to submit to the vote of the AG that David Steinberg becomes an
invited guest

I consider David highly qualified to contribute actively to the work that is
done by the
Authoring Group. David not only represents the user perspective on topic
maps, but his expertise on related standards, such as RDF, SOAP, ebXML,
etc., makes his contribution invaluable. David has attended a 2 day workshop
I have been teaching in New York and therefore is not a beginner in topic
maps.

I have asked him to present his activity to the group.

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I have worked in the Canadian government, dealing with development aid
issues, since 1971.  My work has, at different times, involved policy,
economic and information management analysis.  I have also managed a
virtual library Web site.

My interest in XML dates to the period leading up to the drafting of the
XML 1.0 Recommendation.  As XML has developed, I have become convinced that
one of the most important hurdles the Internet must overcome is the
development of semantic interoperability. Of course, many others have come
to the same conclusion before me - eg. the W3C Semantic Web concept.

It seems likely to me that Web development over the next few years might
follow the path

- development of vertical industry/discipline/sector schemas will continue
as the main activity for the next 2 or 3 years

- business "frameworks" eg. UDDI, ebXML, Biztalk will come into play
starting next year, making schema-to-schema communication/data tagging
transformation easier through establishing common conventions  for the use
of XML in business data exchange; but,

-Following this stage, there will be a great need for horizontal
across-schema, computer to computer meaningful communications requiring
some sort of metadata framework(s) which would allow the integration of
commensurable metadata sets.  it seems to me that the leading contender for
that framework will be XTM.

I am the now CIDA (Canada's international development agency) desk officer
dealing with the World Bank's Global Development Gateway proposal (see
http://www.worldbank.org/gateway/).  Many organizations involved in
international development are concerned that the World Bank will use the
Gateway to set the agenda in development.  The way subjects are broken
down, related to each other, related to possible policy prescription etc.
and the decisions made as to what links to present are ways that the
proposed Gateway could be used to set the agenda.  I am currently trying to
conceptualize how Topic Maps, especially using inductive semantic
acquisition methods, could be used to enable users of the Gateway site to
view the resources using different views (cf. Helka Folch's papers -
"Constructing a navigable Topic Map by inductive semantic acquisition
methods." and "Semantic Tagging of a Corpus using the Topic Navigation Map
Standard").

In the longer-run, because I foresee the wide applicability of XTM, I would
like to develop an expertise in the field

David Steinberg.

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Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom
Tel +33 1 44 59 84 29 Cell +33 6 03 99 25 29
Email: mb@infoloom.com  Web: www.infoloom.com
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