Help Get the Vote Out for UIMA v1.0

[David Ferrucci <ferrucci@us.ibm.com>]

Hi All,

Our UIMA spec is finally up for the
official OASIS vote!! Please do what you can to get the vote out from *your*
member organization and to spread the word to your OASIS friends. Only
your organization's voting representative can vote, so it would be helpful
if you can remind them to vote on the UIMA ballot.

"...If you don't know the identity of your organization's
voting representative is,
go to the My Account page at: http://www.oasis-open.org/members/user_tools
then select the link for View Company Roster, then look for the name designated
as "Primary". ... "

The ballot closes on February 28th.

" ...The voting representative from each OASIS
member organization should submit
the organization's vote by 11:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US) 28 February
2009. ..."


Feel free to use the following short
paragraph below to remind folks about UIMA as you prompt them to vote.


=================================
UIMA stands for the Unstructured Information
Management Architecture. The proposed specification defines a standard
for data representations, data transport formats, component classes and
service interfaces to support the interoperability and integration of text
and multi-modal analytics. UIMA is critical for an increasing number of
applications designed to analyze content in text, speech, audio or video
to extract application-specific semantics. These applications are becoming
essential to every day scientific, business and social computing. They
invariably use, reuse and combine independently developed component analytics.
UIMA makes it possible to integrate these based on a standard and to use
the popular open-source Java (and C++) UIMA framework (http://incubator.apache.org/uima/)
to implement and deploy integrated solutions for a wide variety of application
domains including: business and government intelligence, human resources,
bioinformatics, advanced search and content analysis, the semantic web
and many others.
=====================================


The voting details from OASIS are in
the attached note.  All OASIS organizational members and the UIMA
TC members should have received it. The specific paragraph on the voting
mechanics is here.

The voting representative from each OASIS member organization
should submit
the organization's vote by 11:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US) 28 February
2009. Voting will be conducted using the OASIS member database tools. To
cast your ballots, go to the Voting group ballot page at: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballots.php. You will
need to log-in to the database tools in order to cast your ballots; if
you
have not yet obtained your username and password please contact Scott
McGrath (scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org) for help.

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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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http://www.ibm.com/research/uima  
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"Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
Sent by: Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com>

02/16/2009 08:05 PM

Please respond to
<mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>

To	<voting@lists.oasis-open.org>, <tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org>
cc	<uima@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject	[uima] Call for Vote - UIMA v1.0

To OASIS Members:

This is a Call For Vote to approve the following Committee Specification
set
as an OASIS Standard: 

Unstructured Information Management Architecture 1.0

Documents:
PDF: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/uima-spec-cs-01.pdf   
HTML: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/uima-spec-cs-01.html   
Editable Source (Word):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/uima-spec-cs-01.doc   
Namespace RDDL files: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/base.ecore/uima.base-rddl.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/pe.ecore/uima.peServiceXMI-rddl.ht
ml   
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/peMetadata.ecore/uima.peMetadata-r
ddl.html 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/cs01/peService/peService-rddl.html
 

Ballot:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=1654

The Committee Specification has had its required 60 day public review,
and
the review materials were sent out to the membership of OASIS for the
required 15-day familiarization period. (Those materials can be found at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200902/msg00001.html.)
As
the required review and familiarization periods have now been completed
it
is time to vote. The applicable section of the OASIS TC Process is at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-06-19.php#OASISstandard.

Voting to approve the work product of our Technical Committees is a key
step
in the OASIS process, to better assure our broader user community of the
quality and applicability of the methods or TCs create.  I strongly
encourage each member organization to consider the works submitted for
approval and participate by casting a ballot.

As each OASIS member organization has only one vote, participating employees
of your organization should provide their input to you, their voting
representative, so that you can decide how to vote on behalf of your
organization.  We point that out to them, on our [tc-announce] list,
concurrently with this message.

The voting representative from each OASIS member organization should submit
the organization's vote by 11:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US) 28 February
2009. Voting will be conducted using the OASIS member database tools. To
cast your ballots, go to the Voting group ballot page at: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballots.php. You will
need to log-in to the database tools in order to cast your ballots; if
you
have not yet obtained your username and password please contact Scott
McGrath (scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org) for help.

You may change your ballot until the time that balloting closes. Ballots
will be publicly archived. Comments may be made but are not solicited as
the
specifications already have been subject to public review.

Mary 

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Mary P McRae
Director, Technical Committee Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  
web: www.oasis-open.org
phone: 1.603.232.9090



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