UIMA TC Votable Issues for July 20 Telecon

[Adam Lally <alally@us.ibm.com>]

Everyone,

Six new web ballots have been posted
on the OASIS UIMA TC webiste.  Please register your votes.  
A summary of the issues is listed below.  If all the votes pass then
I think we're done with the Behavioral Metadata for now.

Thanks,
-Adam


All refer to the attached document BehavioralMetadataProposal_v4.

1. Type-Level
XML structure.  Accept Section 4.1 "Type Names" of the
Behavioral Metadata Proposal, which proposes the XML syntax for declaring
Behavioral Metadata at the type level (e.g. inputs types X and Y and creates
type Z).

2. Constraint-Level XML structure.
 Accept OCL as the constraing language for UIMA Behavioral Metadata,
and accept Section 4.2 "OCL Expressions" of the Behavioral Metadata
Proposal, which proposes the XML syntax for specifying OCL expressions
as part of the Behavioral Metadata XML.

3. View XML structure.  Accept
section 4.3 "Views" of the Behavioral Metadata Proposal, which
proposes the XML syntax for declaring Behavioral Metadata for analytics
that operate on views.  Note this vote includes the following that
have been added to the Proposal since the last telecon:
        a.
Analytics can specify optional input views as well as required
input views.
        b.
Analytics may use OCL expressions to specify the views that they operate
on, for cases where referring only to the Sofa Type of the View is insufficient.

4. Including Features for "Modifies".
 Accept section 4.4 "Specifying Which Features are Modified"
of the Behavioral Metadata Proposal, which proposes the XML syntax for
declaring the names of the features that an analytic may modify.

5. Precondition, Postcondition, Projection
Condition XML Structure.  Accept section 4.5 "Specifying
Preconditions, Postconditions, and Projection Conditions" of the Behavioral
Metadata Proposal, which proposes the XML syntax for directly declaring
preconditions, postconditions, and projecton conditions in Behavioral Metadata.

6. Defer Open Issues to a later date.
 Resolve to defer the open issues in Section 7 of the Behavioral
Metadata Proposal until after we produce a preliminary specification draft.


_____________________________
 Adam Lally
 Senior Software Engineer 
 UIMA Framework Lead Developer
 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
 Hawthorne, NY, 10532
 Tel: 914-784-7706,  T/L: 863-7706
 alally@us.ibm.com

BehavioralMetadata_Proposal_v4.doc