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

["Eric Freese" <eric@isogen.com>]

I vote YES

--- In xtm-wg@egroups.com, "Michel Biezunski" <mb@i...> wrote:
> 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@i...  Web: www.infoloom.com
> ==========================================


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