[sc34wg3] Montreal Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda

[Steve Pepper]

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Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda for August 2002
Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3
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Dates: 3-5 August 2002
Location: Wyndham Montreal Hotel, Montr=E9al, Quebec, Canada

Schedule
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The WG will convene at 9am on Saturday 5th August 2002. Full day
meetings will be held on Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th, and Monday 7th August
2002.

In the absence of the WG3 convenor, Steve Pepper, the meeting will be
convened by the convenor of SC34, James D. Mason. Primary responsibility
for the agenda will rest with Lars Marius Garshol and Graham Moore
(responsible for the Standard Application Model), and Steven R. Newcomb
and Michel Biezunski (responsible for the Reference Model).

Draft Agenda
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1. Formalities
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Greetings, roll call, discussion of agenda, meeting times, and the like.

2. Further work on ISO 13250 Topic Maps
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The meeting will focus on technical issues relating to the further
development of ISO 13250 Topic Maps, in particular:

    * The Standard Application Model
    * The XTM syntax specification
    * The Reference Model

The following issues are expected to be given priority:

    * What do locators reference, and what are the consequences of that?
      (issue: locator-reference)

    * How is the unconstrained scope to be represented ("all subjects"
      or "any subjects")? (issues: scope-unconstrained-rep &
      prop-scope-structure)

    * What to do about the topic naming constraint? (issue:
      topic-naming-constraint)

Relevant documents are:

    * (N323) Guide to the topic map standardization
      http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0323.htm

    * (N298rev) A Draft Reference Model for ISO 13250 Topic Maps
      http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0298R1.htm:

    * (N299) The Standard Application Model for Topic Maps
      http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0299.htm

Further material, including an anticipated new draft of the Standard
Application Model will be available prior to the meeting from the SAM
area on the WG3 web site (http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/).


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Steve Pepper, Chief Executive Officer <pepper@ontopia.net>
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3  Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps)
Ontopia AS, Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo, Norway.
http://www.ontopia.net/ phone: +47-23233080 GSM: +47-90827246