I propose this paragraph. Let me know if you
think the wording can be improved.
Temis is successfully using the UIMA CAS XML
and UIMA Type System XML specifications and schemas in accordance with the
conformance clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management
Architecture 1.0 specification.
Temis main product, Luxid®, is build from
the ground using the UIMA Apache implementation , enhances any existing
UIMA-compliant applications and easily integrates and manages any third-party
UIMA-compliant annotators.
Pascal
Pascal Coupet
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
TEMIS INC
1518 Walnut Street, suite 1702, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Tel: +1 215 732 2549 ext 112
Mob: +1 215 609 2514
Fax: +1 215 732 0490
www.temis.com
From: David Ferrucci
[mailto:ferrucci@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:18 PM
To: uima@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [uima] OASIS UIMA TC Next Steps (For our Call on THIS Friday
the 24th)
Hi All,
We will have
our call this Friday, the 24th at 11AM EDT
We will discuss
next steps in getting our standard through the OASIS process and finally
approved.
On Friday's
call we will:
- Review
the process (see details below)
- Agree
to have Mary McRae open a ballot for the UIMA TC to approve our latest
Committee Draft as a Committee Specification
- Discuss
timing and schedule collection of the Statements of Use from our TC
members.
As we will
discuss there is not much left for the TC to do -- essentially
another quick note, collection of a few "Statements of Use" and
then submission for OASIS votes.
See you on
Friday.
Regards,
Dave
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-- DETAILS ON
THE PROCESS --
The
60-day Public Review period has ended, and we did not receive any
comments. The next steps are as follows:
- Hold
another TC vote to approve our latest Committee Draft as a Committee
Specification (but this vote has some special requirements - see below).
- Collect
3 Statements of Use, which are written statements by OASIS Organizational
Members stating that they are successfully using or implementing the
specification.
- Submit
the Committee Specification along with the Statements of Use to the TC
Administrator (Mary McRae) to be sent out to the OASIS Membership for a
Vote. We have to submit by the 15th of a month in order to have it
be sent out to the OASIS membership at the beginning of the following
month.
- The
first 15 days of that month are a review period, and voting opens on the
16th of the month and remains open for the remainder of the month.
We need 15% of the OASIS Members to vote to approve the
specification.
So to take the
next step, we expect to get Statements of Use from at least Eric Nyberg, Karin
Verspoor, Pascal Coupet, and one from IBM.
Adam drafted
the following possible statement of use for IBM
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IBM is
successfully using the UIMA CAS XML and UIMA Type System XML specifications and
schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the
Unstructured Information Management Architecture 1.0 specification. Our
use is based on the Apache UIMA open source implementation and includes the
interoperation of multiple independent component implementations.
More details on
the process are below.
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Vote to
Approve Committee Draft as Committee Specification
After the public review of a Public Review Draft the TC may approve the
specification as a Committee Specification. If any comments have been received
during the most recent Public Review period, that vote may not commence any
earlier than 7 days after the last day of that Public Review. The approval of a
Committee Specification shall require a Special Majority Vote. The TC Chair
shall notify the TC Administrator that the TC is ready to vote on the approval
of the specification, and provide to the TC Administrator the location of the
editable versions of the specification files. The TC Administrator shall set up
and conduct the ballot to approve the Committee Specification.
A Special
Majority Vote is a TC vote in which at least 2/3 (two thirds) of the Voting
Members vote " yes" and no more than 1/4 (one fourth) of the Voting
Members vote "no". These numbers are based on the total number of
Voting Members, regardless of the number of Voting Members present in the
meeting). This ballot is not created by us but by the OASIS TC
Administrator (Mary McRae).
Examples of
Statements of Use from Other OASIS Standards
Here are some
other examples of Statements of Use that I found, for comparison:
We ESi,
Inc. are successfully using the "Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)
Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE) Specification Version 1.0", in
accordance with the mandatory conformance clauses stated in the specification.
We (IBM
Belgium) are successfully using the EML specifications and schemas in
accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the Process and Data
Requirements document. Our use has included the interoperation of multiple
independent implementations (i.e. IBM Belgium - EDS).
Planetwork,
Inc. is successfully using the XRI Syntax 2.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0
specifications and schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified
in the XRI Resolution 2.0 specification. Our use has included the
interoperation of multiple independent implementations, including the 2idi
i-broker and the barx XRI proxy resolver.
NeuStar,
Inc. is successfully using the XRI Syntax 2.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0
specifications and schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified
in the XRI Resolution 2.0 specification. Our use has included the
interoperation of multiple independent implementations, including operation of
the XDI.org Global Registry Services for = and @ global context registries for
i-names and i-numbers, operation of the associated XRI authority resolution
servers, operation of the xri.net public proxy resolver using the open source
OpenXRI code base, and operation of authority resolution servers for the @dotus
and @neustar community XRI spaces.
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David A. Ferrucci, PhD
Senior Manager, Semantic Analysis & Integration
Chief Architect, UIMA
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532
Tel: 914-784-7847, 8/863-7847
ferrucci@us.ibm.com
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