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OASIS Topic Maps Technical Committees

Standards Update PresentationKnowledge Technologies ConferenceSeattle - 2002, March 11

Bernard Vatant - ChairTopic Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee

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OASIS overview• OASIS is a worldwide consortium dedicated to

building systems interoperability specifications.• Focus on industry applications of structured

information standards, such as XML, SGML, CGM• Over 400 organizational and individual members• International, not-for-profit, open, independent

• Bottom-up technical agenda - Technical Committees formed on proposal of members- Technical agenda set by members

• Open, democratic, vendor-neutral process - Any interested parties may participate, comment- No one organization can dictate the standard

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OASIS technical work process

1. Any three OASIS members propose creationof a technical committee (TC)

2. Existing technical work submitted to TC or TC starts work at the beginning

3. TC conducts and completes technical work Process is open and publicly viewable

4. TC votes to approve work as anOASIS Committee Specification

5. TC votes to submit the Committee Specification to OASIS membership for consideration

6. OASIS membership reviews, approves the Committee Specification as an OASIS Standard

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Current Technical Committees

• Access Control (XACML)• Business Transactions

(BTP)• XML Biometric Formats• Conformance• Customer Information (CIQ)• Directory Services (DSML)• DocBook• ebXML CPPA• ebXML IIC• ebXML Joint Committee• ebXML Messaging Services• ebXML Registry• Election Services• Entity Resolution• Human Markup

• Localization Interchange (XLIFF)

• Provisioning Services (PSML)

• Published Subjects for Geography and Languages

• RELAX NG

• Security Services

• Topic Maps Published Subjects

• Universal Business Language

• Vocabulary for XML Standards

• Web Servicesfor Interactive Applications

• Web Services Remote Portal

• XSLT Conformance

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TopicMaps.Org Milestones• January 2000

– Topic Maps specification ISO 13250

– TopicMaps.Org - independent consortium

• February 2000

– TopicMaps.Org kicks off technical workon XML Topic Maps specification (XTM)

• February 2001

– TopicMaps.Org delivers XTM 1.0

• August 2001 – TopicMaps.Org decision to move into OASIS

• December 2001 – XTM 1.0 DTD included in ISO 13250

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TopicMaps.Org to become an OASIS Member Section ...• Principle decision: August 2001• Goals - as of charter proposal

– Increase awareness of the advantages of topic maps ...

– Promote the sharing of information within and between groups using topic maps ...

– Promote the use of topic maps among information delivery specialists ...

• Provisional Chair: Eric Freese, Isogen

• March 2002: adoption of charter ?

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OASIS Topic Maps Technical Committees• PubSubj TC

– Topic Maps Published Subjects

– Started October 2001

• GeoLang TC– Published Subjects for

Geography and Languages

– Call for participation January 2002

• XMLvoc TC– Vocabulary for XML Standards

– Call for participation January 2002

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PubSubj Technical Committee

• Started: October 2001• Charter: Deliver recommendations

for documentation, management and usage of Published Subjects - as defined by ISO 13250 -

• Chair: Bernard Vatant, Mondeca• Deliverables schedule:

– March 2002: PubSubj documentation

– May 2002: PubSubj management

– August 2002: PubSubj usage

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PubSubj Technical Committee

Statement of purpose• Provide binding points for interoperability

of subjects used by topic maps documents- and other semantic web applications -

• Make legacy of publishedclassifications and vocabularies, interoperable by and through topic maps.

• Help classification, taxonomy, library ...specialists to become aware of topic maps as – a technology relevant to their fields– widening the scope of use of their legacy.

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PubSubj Technical Committee

Ongoing work• Recommend form, syntax and content

for Published Subjects documentation.– Full conformance with ISO 13250

concepts and terminology.– Interoperability with standard

metadata formats: RDF, Dublin Core.

• Coordination with TCs developingPublished Subjects for specific fields:GeoLang, XMLvoc ...

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GeoLang Technical Committee

• Call for participation: January 2002

• Charter and Scope: – Define Published Subjects

for Geography and Languages

– Conform to PubSubj TC recommendations

– Using ISO and UN codes legacy

• Chair: Lars Marius Garshol

• First meeting March 14, 2002 - Seattle

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GeoLang Technical CommitteeDeliverables based on standards legacy

• ISO 639– PSI for languages

• ISO 3166 – PSI for countries and regions

• USMARC – PSI for countries, regions, and geographic areas

– PSI for languages

• UNSD Standard Country or Area Codes – PSI for regions

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XMLvoc Technical Committee

• Call for participation: January 2002

• Charter and Scope: – Define a vocabulary for the domain

of XML standards and technologies,in the form of Published Subjects

– Conform to PubSubj TC recommendations

• Chair: Holger Rath, empolis

• First meeting March 14, 2002 - Seattle

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XMLvoc Technical Committee

Statement of Purpose• Enable providers of information about XML

to create interoperable topic maps• Improve accessibility of information for

– XML and related specifications

– Community of users

– Tools that support XML

– XML Services and Expertise

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F2F in Seattle - 2002 March 14

• TopicMaps.Org ...• PubSubj TC ...• GeoLang TC ...• XMLvoc TC ...

– Full day of coordinated meetings

– Following Knowledge Technologies Conference

– Hosted in Boeing facilities at Renton

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For more information ...

• OASIS website http://www.oasis-open.org

• Summary and current status of each TChttp://oasis-open.org/committees/committees.shtml

• TCs mailing list archives http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives

• PubSubj TChttp://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj

• GeoLang TChttp://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang

• XMLVoc TChttp://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmlvoc