TITLE: | WG3 Recommendations of November 2005 Meeting - Atlanta, GA, USA |
SOURCE: | WG3 |
STATUS: | Meeting recommendations |
ACTION: | For SC34 resolutions |
DATE: | 2005-11-16 |
DISTRIBUTION: | SC34 and Liaisons |
REPLY TO: |
Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org |
WG3 instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments in N672. 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:
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/
Perform any minor adjustments to the text as necessary in order to reflect the changes to XTM 1.1 described in the next section.
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:
WG3 notes with regret that Eric Freese was unable to assume the role of co-editor and appoints Lars Marius Garshol in his stead. The Editors are instructed to respond to National Body comments in N615, and to incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting into a new draft and submit the document for a new FCD ballot.
WG3 appoints Robert Barta as co-editor. The Editors are instructed 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.
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.
WG3 instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments in N673. 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.
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.
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.
WG3 recognizes the need to develop conventions for adding metadata to Published Subject Indicators, in order to
WG3 considers SC34 to be a suitable forum for this work, and instructs its convenor to work together with Motomu Naito to draft an NP and distribute it to the WG prior to the Seoul meeting. The decision as to whether the NWI will take the form of a TR or an IS will be taken at that meeting.
WG3 requests that SC34 acknowledge the proposal by Michel Biezunski to donate, subject to certain conditions, the domain topicmaps.org to SC34 on behalf of WG3. It further requests that SC34 move forward towards an agreement, taking into account the conditions expressed by Michel Biezunski during the meeting and summarized in N0682.
WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Empolis GmbH for kindly donating the domain topicmaps.com to SC34 on behalf of WG3.
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.
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.