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

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

I thought I already did, in a previous mail.


Michel

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Park [mailto:jackpark@verticalnet.com]
> Sent: December 15, 2000 12:59 AM
> To: xtm-wg@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Proposal for inviting David Steinberg as a guest.
>
>
> 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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> >
> >
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