Agenda for next TTSC weekly meeting

[Anne Hendry <anne.hendry@sun.com>]

The next meeting of the UBL Tools and Techniques Subcommittee
will take place approximately 16 hours from now at 16:00 UTC
(8:00 am California - see link below for other locations).

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2003&mon=11&day=21&hour=15&min=0&sec=0

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TTSC Charter:
    To evaluate and recommend to the TC the tools and techniques
    to be used in the development, quality assurance, documentation,
    maintenance, and revision of the UBL XML data formats, and write
    and maintain guidelines reflecting these recommendations.
 

Agenda:

1. Welcome from Co-Chairs and appointment of Secretary to take minutes.
2. Review of Agenda
3. Tools Requirements (see below)
4. Review of Tools paper (Gunther will send to list)
5. Schedule
6. Other Business
7. Next Meeting


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Tools Requirements
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In our previous/last meeting we reviewed requirements for tools.
Since the focus of the Tools SC may have changed since we
last discussed requirements, it might be useful to review
these requirements and the priorities we gave to them at
the last meeting:
 
Tools Requirements:
    1.) non-proprietary storage format: Priority B.
    2.) availability on multiple platforms: Priority B.
    3.) configurable to syntax rules: Priority B
    4.) configurable to customization rules (context-based modeling): 
Priorize B
    5.) provides file versioning / source control / concurrent editing: 
Priority A
    6.) requires no manual editing: Priority B
   7.)  supports XMI change format: Priority B?
   8.)  is an integrated tool set: Priority B?
   9.)  provides collabortive central source repository: Priority B
   10.) enforces a controlled vocabulary: Priority B
   11.) provides a single data/source repository: Priority B
   12.) low (no) cost: Priority A
   13.) Modelling systems: Priority B
   14.) Storage systems: Priority A
   15.) Transformation systems: Priority B
   16.) Interface generation (Java, C++, Perl, etc) systems: Priority A
   17.) Schema generation systems - Generation of UBL based XML Schemas 
from and to
   18.) Tools for contextualization of schemas (eg. to local text): 
Priority B