UIMA TC Telecon REMINDER -- February 15 2008

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

Hi All, 

We are on for a telecon tomorrow at 11 - 12:30 EST


Agenda
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1. Note Ballot for publishing the Specification
Summary has been open -- please vote.

2. Request Comments on modifications
made to updated specification draft attached below

Draft Notes

This is still a DRAFT and very much
a work in progress. Quite a few "to dos"

For each specification element  that
carries specific compliance points we created a  "Formal Specification"
section that succinctly states what the specification is,  setting
it apart from descriptions, examples and other documentation explaining
the specification or how to apply it.  We intend that all  "compliance
points" for  previous draft  will be better represented
as statements in the "formal specification" sections. This has
been done in the attach draft for most of them -- there is still some work
to do.

The Base Type System, as discussed,
does not have a "Formal Specification" section since it just
defined a simple type system that we intend for the community to adopt.
We can include the XML for the Base Type System in the appendix.

The Abstract Interface section does
not have a "Formal Specification" subsection,  as we  have
not identified a mechanism for constraining an arbitrary implementation.
We would like to say  that a UIMA analytic must implement these operations
by, for example, requiring that there is some way to get the results they
provide -- like the PE Metadata, or an updated CAS -- and if these operations
were not provided then the analytic would not be compliant at that level.
 Currently without a language tied to a specific binding, we are not
sure how to accomplish that. In the WSDL section, however,  we use
WSDL exactly for this purpose -- as a formalism to specify SOAP bindings
for each of the abstract interfaces. We wonder if this is sufficient.


3. Review status of other spec writers
-- Eric and Thomas




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