[sc34wg3] WG3 Atlanta recommendations (draft)
Patrick Durusau
sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:11:25 -0500
Steve,
Remember to include the appointment of Robert Barta as a co-editor on
ISO 13250-5.
Thanks!
Hope you are having a great day!
Patrick
Steve Pepper wrote:
>I'm sorry for the confusion regarding the email with the draft
>resolutions for WG3. First of all, I forgot the attachment, and
>so I resent it. But, for some unknown reason, neither email got
>through to the WG3 mailing list (although Michel at least seems
>to have received the first one).
>
>Thanks to Ken for sending the draft for me. I'm resending it
>yet again, because not all the meeting attendees reading the
>mailing list. (The original email was cc:ed to them directly.)
>
>Here then is what *should* have gone out over 24 hours ago. I
>am now back in Oslo, so hopefully email will be functioning
>correctly. Please get your comments to me directly as soon as
>possible. I will then forward the final version of the
>recommendations to Ken by 4pm EST.
>
>I will reply to Michel's comment in a separate email.
>
>Steve
>
>
>ORIGINAL EMAIL:
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Here are the draft recommendations from the WG3 Atlanta meeting.
>
>Would all those who attended the meeting please review them as
>soon as possible and inform me directly (without cc:ing the mailing
>list) of any inaccuracies or omissions.
>
>The deadline for comments is 8AM EST tomorrow (Wednesday).
>
>Thanks to everyone for a tough but productive meeting. We made good
>progress on at least 6 different projects and can now safely assume
>that the new version of ISO 13250 (Parts 2 and 3) will be published
>in the Spring.
>
>Steve
>
>P.S. I have cc:ed (from memory) everyone who attended the meeting.
>Please forgive me if I have forgotten anyone and put it down to
>extreme exhaustion :-)
>
>--
>Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>
>Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia
>Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3
>Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps 1.0)
>
>
>
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>
>
> Recommendations of November 2005 Meeting of WG3
>
>
> 1. FCD 13250-2: Topic Maps -- Data Model
>
> WG3 instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments in
> Nnaito <0naito.htm>. The Editors are further instructed to incorporate
> the decisions taken at the Atlanta meeting, summarized below, and
> submit the document for FDIS ballot before December 20 2005.
>
> /Summary of decisions:/
>
> 1. Move the subject identifiers defined in Clause 7.5 into a new,
> normative Annex A with the title "Subject Identifiers for
> Defined Terms", which is introduced by the following text:
>
> The following subject identifiers are defined, in accordance
> with the recommendations of the OASIS Published Subjects TC,
> for the sole purpose of enabling unambiguous reference to
> the subjects they represent, for example in order to enable
> the collation of information about those subjects. This
> International Standard attaches no processing semantics of
> any kind to these identifiers, over and above those
> associated with subject identifiers in general.
>
> Note: Implementations are strongly discouraged from
> attaching their own processing semantics since this will
> impair interoperability.
>
> The namespace for all these identifiers should be:
> http://psi.topicmaps.org/iso13250/glossary/
>
> 2. Change the namespace of all other (model-specific) PSIs to:
> http://psi.topicmaps.org/iso13250/model/
> 3.
>
> Perform any minor adjustments to the text as necessary in order
> to reflect the changes to XTM 1.1 described in the next section.
>
>
> 2. FCD 13250-3: Topic Maps -- XML Syntax
>
> WG3 instructs the Editors to incorporate the decisions taken at the
> Atlanta meeting, summarized below, and submit the document for FDIS
> ballot before December 20 2005.
>
> /Summary of decisions:/
>
> 1. Remove the terms "deserialization", "serialization", and "XTM
> document" from Clause 3, and a create subject identifier for the
> term "XTM" in a new, normative Annex A. Use the same text to
> introduce this Annex as in Annex A of Part 2. Change the
> definition of "XTM" to: "the standard, XML-based interchange
> syntax for topic maps".
> 2. Change the namespace of the XTM 1.1 vocabulary to:
> http://www.topicmaps.org/iso13250/xtm/
> 3. Change the namespace of all model-specific PSIs (i.e., those
> already defined in the current draft of Part 3) to:
> http://psi.topicmaps.org/iso13250/model/
> 4. Make the following changes to the XTM 1.1 syntax in order to
> bring the vocabulary and model in line with Part 2:
> 1. Change the names of the following generic identifiers:
> * from /parameters/ to /scope/
> * from /member/ to /role/
> * from /roleSpec/ to /instanceOf/
> o reverse the order of /subjectIdentity/ and
> /instanceOf/ in the content model for /topic/
> o remove the /variantName/ wrapper element
> o require /instanceOf/ on association,
> occurrence, association role, and topic name
> elements
> o restrict /role/ elements to containing a
> single (required) role player
> o remove nesting of variants
> 5. Modify Annex E to contain the following:
> 1. An explanation of why the namespace has been changed from
> XTM 1.0: viz:
> * to harmonize the syntax and data model, and to
> remove ambiguities, and
> * to purge the version number from the namespace, in
> order to make it more persistent.
> 2. An overview of the difference between XTM 1.0 and XTM 1.1.
> 3. An XSLT style sheet for transforming XTM 1.0 documents
> into XTM 1.1 documents. Untyped names, occurrences,
> associations, and association roles in XTM 1.0 documents
> should be tranformed to typed constructs that use the PSIs
> defined for that purpose in the XTM 1.0 specification.
>
>
> 3. FCD 13250-4: Topic Maps -- Canonical XML Syntax
>
> WG3 appoints Lars Marius Garshol as co-editor of CXTM and instructs
> the Editors to respond to National Body comments in N615 <0615.htm>.
> The Editors are further instructed to incorporate the decisions taken
> at the Amsterdam meeting into a new draft and submit the document for
> FDIS ballot.
>
>
> 4. WD 13250-5: Topic Maps -- Reference Model
>
> WG3 instructs the Editors to incorporate the decisions taken at recent
> meetings into a new draft and circulate it to National Bodies before
> March 1 2006, with a view to conducting an intensive working session
> at the WG3 meeting in Seoul.
>
>
> 5. CD 18048 Topic Maps -- Query Language
>
> WG3 instructs the Editors to incorporate the decisions taken at recent
> meetings into a new draft and circulate it to National Bodies before
> March 1 2006, with a view to conducting an intensive working session
> at the WG3 meeting in Seoul.
>
>
> 6. CD 19756 Topic Maps -- Constraint Language
>
> WG3 instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments in
> Nnaito2 <0naito2.htm>. WG3 further instructs the Editors to prepare a
> response to National Body comments arising from the current CD ballot
> and to incorporate the decisions taken at the Atlanta meeting into a
> new draft to be circulated to National Bodies before March 1 2006.
>
>
> 7. NP Compact Syntax for Topic Maps
>
> WG3 appoints Prof. Sam Oh, Gabriel Hopmans, and Lars Heuer as acting
> editors, and requests the Korean National Body to submit an NP for
> CTM, based on the text drafted at the Atlanta meeting, for immediate
> ballot.
>
> In addition, WG3 encourages the Topic Maps community to put forward
> proposals in advance of the Seoul meeting.
>
>
> 8. NP Graphical Notation for Topic Maps
>
> WG3 appoints Prof. Jaeho Lee and Graham Moore as acting editors, and
> requests the Korean National Body to submit an NP for GTM, based on
> the text drafted at the Atlanta meeting, for immediate ballot.
>
> In addition, WG3 encourages the Topic Maps community to put forward
> proposals in advance of the Seoul meeting.
>
>
> 9. Appreciation to Michel Biezunski and Empolis
>
> WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Michel
> Biezunski for his kind offer to donate the domain topicmaps.org to
> SC34 on behalf of WG3.
>
> WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Empolis GmbH
> for kindly donating the domain topicmaps.com to SC34 on behalf of WG3.
>
> Assuming that the transfer of topicmaps.org to SC34 can be
> accomplished before December 20th 2005, WG3 will use this domain for
> all namespaces and PSI sets that it publishes in connection with ISO
> 13250 and other Topic Maps standards. Failing that, the domain
> topicmaps.com will be used for this purpose.
>
>
> 10. Appreciation to Steve Newcomb
>
> WG3 requests that SC34 express its thanks to Steve Newcomb for
> providing a projector for the WG3 meeting, and to IDEAlliance for
> providing the meeting room.
>
>
> 11. Next WG3 meeting
>
> The next WG3 meeting will be held on May 29-June 1 in Seoul, Korea, in
> conjunction with the /Asian Topic Maps Summit/ that is being planned
> by the Korean National Body for June 2-3. Further meetings are
> provisionally planned for Montreal, Canada in August 2006, in
> conjunction with the Extreme Markup conference, and in October 2006 in
> Leipzig, Germany, in conjunction with the Topic Maps Research and
> Applications (TMRA'06) workshop.
>
--
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005
Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!