Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 10|11 December 2007

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2007

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Andy Schoka
   Sylvia Webb

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar:
      http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

      None.

   Liaison reports

      None.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Met two weeks ago and had a very productive session.  TM
      presented on additions to the UBL library in 2.1 needed to
      accommodate Danish transportation requirements.  Questions
      from JB regarding TSC 2.1 scheduling and a comment from
      JPLSC will be on the agenda for the next meeting.

   Review of Atlantic call (28 November)

      No comments.

SUPPORT PAGE SUBMISSION

   It's been requested that we add the following to the
   "UBL-related contributions from academia" section:

      [2007.xx.yy] Survey of UBL interest and deployment

      This online survey of UBL interest and deployment was
      created by the University of Frankfurt in the context of the
      European ABILITIES project and is designed to measure
      real-world use of the UBL Standard.  The site provides both
      an opportunity to participate in the survey and public
      access to the survey results.

         http://www.viewzone.org/survey/index.php?sid=1

   AGREED.

2008 TC WORK SCHEDULE

   Revised spreadsheets now available:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200712/msg00000.html

      ACTION: JB to check with the LSCs regarding this schedule.

UPDATE PACKAGE: JPLSC COMMENTS

   We finished processing the comments; now we need to start
   tracking status of responses from PSC and TSC.

      In the absence of TM, this is deferred till next week.

UPDATE PACKAGE: GC FILE FORMAT

   Please note this from the last Pacific call minutes:

      Can other members of the UBL TC identify code list files
      that would be improved by additional metadata?

2008 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

   28 Jan - 1 Feb 2008 in Manhattan

      Confirmed.  101 Park Avenue.

   April 2008 in Rome (together with UBL International Day)

      14-18 April is the week now under consideration.  This is
      not yet confirmed but is approaching finalization.

   4-8 August 2008 in Montréal

      Confirmed.  Hotel Europa, rue Drummond (the week prior to
      the Balisage conference in the same location).

   January 2009 in Fremantle

      Still tentative.

NOVEMBER-JANUARY TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

   Week of 12/17 Regular schedule
   Week of 12/24 Skip
   Week of 12/31 Skip
   Week of 01/07 Regular schedule
   Week of 01/14 Regular schedule
   Week of 01/21 Skip
   Week of 01/28 Manhattan F2F
   Week of 02/04 Skip
   Week of 02/11 Regular schedule

OTHER BUSINESS

   GKH: Request that we include ISO Public Subject Indicators
   (PSIs) for all UBL constructs as a deliverable for UBL 2.1.
   Background: a PSI is a URI that resolves to a human-readable
   document describing a particular semantic, thus enabling the
   subject to be unambiguously referenced in a Topic Map (ISO
   13250).  JB committed to providing PSIs for UBL 1.0 a couple of
   years ago but didn't find the resources to do it.  Assuming
   that the semantics of UBL 2 will not change during the 2.x life
   cycle (modulo minor corrections to the definitions), we propose
   to create official PSIs for every UBL construct.

   AGREED to add this item to the list of deliverables with GKH as
   the person who will synthesize about 2000 XHTML pages from
   spreadsheets, each page keyed to a unique Dictionary Entry Name
   (DEN) and representing the columns of each entry as bullets on
   its PSI page, the pages to eventually be archived at
   psi.oasis-open.org/ubl2/ (see psi.oasis-open.org for the
   beginnings of the OASIS PSI repository).

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UPDATE PACKAGE

   Methodology:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200710/msg00027.html
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200711/msg00006.html

PACIFIC ACTION ITEMS FROM MANHATTAN (MAY 2007)

   ACTION: PSC and TSC to provide feedback on UBL 2.0 SBS 2.0:

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/23873

      Pending.

   ACTION: PSC and TSC to summarize business rules that are (1)
   wanted in UBL but not allowed by [i.e., capable of being
   addressed by] the NDR (e.g., requirement to include one of
   PartyName and PartyIdentifier but not both) and (2) data items
   whose constraints are inherited from another standard (e.g.,
   lengths of data items specified by UNTDED); the rules so
   identified to become candidates for a list of schematron
   assertions "recommended to be included" (final characterization
   TBD).

      Pending.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC