Notes from WG3 meeting in Montréal, August 2005
TMDM and XTM
The meeting reviewed the 2005-07-13 draft of TMDM and the
2005-07-20 draft of XTM, and made a number of decisions about minor
issues with both. These decisions are recorded in
N0656.
The editors were instructed to produce new drafts
for FDIS ballot as soon as possible.
Proposed ISO 13250-6: CTM
Professor Sam Oh presented a set of requirements and issues for a
new part of ISO 13250, to be called Compact Topic Maps syntax (CTM).
The meeting provided substantial feedback, and professor Oh and
Gabriel Hopmans were instructed to produce a new version of the
presentation based on feedback from the meeting. (Available as N0658.) In addition, professor Oh was instructed to
prepare a new work item proposal based on this presentation.
TMCL
The editors showed a presentation of their plans for the new draft
of TMCL, and this was reviewed by the meeting. The editors were
instructed to produce a new draft based on the discussion at the
meeting.
The editors were also instructed to include in the new draft a
mapping from TMCL to T+ constraints, in order to achieve internal
consistency among the Topic Maps standards, and in order to evaluate
the suitability of the T+ model.
TMQL
The editors presented a TMQL tutorial, and also held an editors'
meeting to evaluate the latest draft. Based on this, the editors were
instructed to produce a proposal for a new path syntax, and a proposal
for a formal semantics based on the T+ model.
TMRM
The meeting reviewed the latest draft of TMRM, and presented
the editors with feedback. (Notes about the feedback were made on
paper, and so are not available.) The editors were instructed to
prepare a new draft for circulation based on this feedback.
The editors requested that Robert Barta also be made editor of
TMRM, as his Tau+ model now makes up the bulk of it. The meeting was
generally favourable to this, but as SC34 as a whole needs to make
this decision, nothing further will be done before the Atlanta meeting
in November 2005.
Lars Marius Garshol was instructed to write a proposal for a TMDM
representation in T+, to be posted for discussion as soon as possible.
This representation is necessary for internal consistency in ISO
13250, as well as for use by TMQL. (Now available as
N0659.)
Steve Newcomb was instructed to post emails with issues he has
about the TMRM, for discussion on the sc34wg3 mailing list.
Acknowledgements
The meeting expresses its appreciation to IDEAlliance for providing
a room, to Ricky for the projector screen, and to Steve Newcomb for
providing a projector.
