Final Agenda

Joint Meeting: One Hundred and Fourteenth Plenary Meeting of NCITS/L8 – Metadata - and the SC32/WG2 TAG meeting

Date: 19 September 2001

Place: NIST-North, Room 152

Gaithersburg, MD

Time: 9:00AM to 4:00PM

 

  1. Administrative Matters

Dan Gillman opened the meeting 9:45.

  1. Approval of the Agenda

    2. Section 3.g was added to the agenda, and item 6.g was changed to read "DAMA Metatopia Conference"

  2. Membership, attendance list, and address list

    3. Bruce Abbott and John Friedrich introduced themselves.

  3. Review of minutes of previous meeting

Item 3.a changed to 2000 from 200.

Minutes from June 2001 meeting

 

Attendees

Name

Organization

Email Address

Dan Gillman - Chair

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Gillman_d@bls.gov

Andy Schoka

Mitretek

Schoka@mitretek.org

Burt Parker

Paladin Integration Engineering

Parkerbg@mindspring.com

Doug Mann

Battelle

Mannd@battelle.org

John Sowa

BRC

Sowa@bestweb.net

Judith Newton

NIST

Jnewton@nist.gov

John Friedrich

OnWeb Technologies

John@onwebtech.com

Frank Farance

Farance, Inc.

Frank@farance.com

Bruce Abbott

MN Dept of Natural Resources

Bruce.abbott@state.mn.us

Jim Carpenter

BLS

Carpenter_j@bls.gov

Bruce Bargmeyer

LBL/EPA

Bebargmeyer@lbl.gov

Larry Fitzwater

EPA

Fitzwater.larry@epa.gov

 

 

2) L8 Reports

  1. Report on NCITS/L8 Task Group for Technical Development meetings (J. Newton)

    2. TG met twice since last plenary. Produced comments for ballots for 11179-3 and 20943-1. Parts 1, 2, and 5 have WD's. Discussion of Part 6 was high level, but there needs to be a list of required attributes for each administered item before Phong can describe "certified" status.

  2. Report on JTC1/SC32/WG2 matters (L. Fitzwater)

    3. WG 2 meeting in Victoria for 17 Oct - 25 Oct in Victoria, BC

    c) Report on JTC1/SC32 matters (B. Bargmeyer)

    SC 32 meeting scheduled for 21 Oct - 25 Oct in Victoria, BC. Funding for secretariat is not currently available. Larry and Bruce are working on this. Bruce applied for chair for next 3 years, but this is his last term. Funding and "pay to play" are still issues for JTC1.

  3. Report on NCITS/L8 matters (D. Gillman)

L8 is involved in many international projects at this time. KIF and CG are to be combined in SC32. L8 is co-sponsor of Metatopia.

 

3) Liaison reports

  1. TC204 and ITS America (A. Schoka & B. Parker)

    2. ITS data registry has completed 1st upgrade, enhancements to reports capabilities, including subsets. Registry extended to data interchange, including messages and data frames. Some 5000 data concepts (administered items and messages) are included. Nothing above recorded status. TC 204 is working on ISO 14817, which is an amalgamation of IEEE 1488, 1489, ISO/IEC 11179 and lessons learned on building ITS registry. Korea and Japan are establishing their own data registries. ISO 14817 is out for CD ballot. Document will be sent to Dan, and he will distribute it to L8 for comments. Comments to be sent to Andy. Needs to accommodate modeling and UML are being discussed. There are disconnects between different parts of UML. There will be multiple ITS registries, so coordination with TC204 specification is needed. ITS registry may be adopted for internationalization.

  2. OMG (B. Bargmeyer)

    3. Object Constraint language (OCL) to be a basis for UML and is based on logic so can be linked to CGs and KIF.

    c) W3C (B. Bargmeyer)

    Next meeting of advisor committee in France, then Hawaii. XML-Schema spec is out. Bruce is pushing for liaison with UDDI, met at XML.gov meeting.

  3. TC 211 and L1 (B. Bargmeyer)

No report.

  1. TC 37 (D. Mann)

    2. TC 37 wants SC 32 to change definitions in ISO/IEC 11179-3

  2. TC 215 (D. Mann)

    3. Frank was at ANSI HISB meeting. Farance will participate in TC 215 TAG to ensure proper use of 11179.

  3. Metadata Registries Coalition (J. Newton)

    4. MDRC had last meeting in June. Next meeting scheduled for 4 Dec.

     

    4) Status of Projects

    a) Status of ISO/IEC 11179 – revision

  4. Part 1 – Framework (D. Gillman)

WD out on SC 32 and L8 web sites.

  1. Part 2 – Classification (J. Carpenter)

    2. A draft is out on L8 web site.

  2. Part 3 – Metamodel (L. Fitzwater)

    3. FCD ballot closes 5 Oct. L8 comments to go out.

  3. Part 4 – Definitions (B. Bargmeyer)

    4. WD issued 13 July, on the L8 web site.

  4. Part 5 – Naming and Identification (J. Newton)

    5. Hoping to have CD issued in Victoria. Current WD dated 26 July.

  5. Part 6 – Registration (P. Ngo)

WD on L8 web site, and Phong

b) Status of ISO/IEC TR 20943

  1. Part 1 – Data Elements (J. Newton)

Out for FPDTR ballot. Ballot closes 5 Oct.

  1. Part 2 – XML (B. Bargmeyer)

    2. No progress.

  2. Part 3 – Value Domains (D. Gillman)

WD is on the L8 and SC 32 web sites.

c) Status of NCITS 1058-D and 1059-D

  1. Knowledge Interchange Format (M. Gruninger)

No meeting in last month.

  1. Conceptual Graphs (J. Sowa)

Fresh draft to be put up in early October. CG and KIF to be combined in WG2.

  1. Status of ISO/IEC 11404 – Language Independent Datatypes (F.Farance)

    2. Frank will meet with convenor of SC22/WG11, week of 15 - 19 Oct. Next WD to be available in Oct.

  2. Status of ISO/IEC 20944 – Metadata Access Service (F.Farance)

Working with people who plan to implement MAS. C and Java bindings are being built. Frank will send proposals for comments.

 

5) IR Activities

  1. IR Report (F. Farance)

US national body to JTC1 (meeting in Hawaii after Victoria) to submit proposal to improve fast track process.

 

6) New Business

a)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 632
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 09/12/01
Subject: Request for List of U.S. Delegates to SC32 Meetings in Victoria, BC, Canada, 15-26 October 2001 (Remember to coordinate with other "TAGs" in selecting the HoD)
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 09/14/01

 Members provided names for delegates.

b)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 657
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 09/12/01
Subject: Request for Comments (for discussion and progression at the SC32/WG 2 meeting in Victoria, BC October 2001) on Working Draft Text, ISO/IEC WD 11179-5, Information technology - Metadata Registries (MDR) - Part 5: Naming and identification principles
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 09/26/01

 No coments to provide at this point.

c)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 674
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 09/17/01
Subject: Request for List of Delegates to the JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 Metadata meeting, 2001-10-18/25, Victoria, BC, Canada
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 09/18/01

  Members provided names for delegates and experts.

d)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 643
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 09/17/01
Subject: For FCD Ballot, ISO/IEC FCD 11179-3:200x, Information technology - Data management and interchange - Metadata registries (MdR) - Part 3: Registry metamodel (MdR3)
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 10/05/01

Dan proposed to provide comments to SC32. Bruce moved, Doug seconded, Andy and Burt abstained, and the vote was 8,0,2,13.

e)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 648
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 09/17/01
Subject: For FPDTR Ballot, ISO/IEC FPDTR 20943-1, Information technology - Data management and interchange - Procedures for achieving metadata registry (MdR) content consistency - Part 1: Data elements
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 10/05/01

 Dan proposed to provide comments to SC32. Judy moved, and John Sowa seconded, Andy and Burt abstained, and the vote was 8,0,2,13.

f)

US TAG: NCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 668
Date Due to TAG Administrator:
Subject: For Review and Comments or Contributions, ISO/IEC WD 20943-3, Information technology - Achieving Metadata Registry Content Consistency - Part 3: Value Domains
SC/JTC 1 Due Date:

 No comments provided.

g)

Co-sponsoring DAMA Metatopia Conference, 20-21 Sept 2001 (J. Newton and J. Carpenter)

Venue switched to Gaithersburg Marriott at Washingtonian Center. Sessions begin at 8:45.

 

7) Future Meeting Schedule

Next meeting: 7 December 2001 at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

 The room will be at Lecture Room C in the Admin Bldg. Lunch at dining room A.
  1. Adjournment

 

Dan proposed the meeting adjourned, Judy moved, Burt seconded, the vote was unanimous. The meeting was adjourned at 1:45.