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

[Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

I second and vote for this one.  Michel, how bout voting for Bernard?

----- Original Message -----
From: Michel Biezunski <mb@infoloom.com>
To: Xtm-Wg@Egroups. Com <xtm-wg@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 3:26 PM
Subject: [xtm-wg] Proposal for inviting David Steinberg as a guest.


> 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.
>
> =============================================================
>
> 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.
>
> ==========================================
> 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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