Joint Meeting: One Hundred and Eighteenth Plenary Meeting of NCITS/L8 – Metadata - and the SC32/WG2 TAG meeting
Date:
Place: NIST, Room 501
Time: 9:00AM to 4:00PM
Attendees
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Dan Gillman - Chair |
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Jim Carpenter |
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Bruce Bargmeyer (phone) |
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
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Frank Farance (phone) |
Farance, Inc. |
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Andy Schoka |
Mitretek |
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Judith Newton |
NIST |
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Doug Mann |
Battelle |
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Jim Mercurio (phone) |
VA |
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John Sowa |
VivoMind |
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Larry Fitzwater |
EPA |
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Burt Parker |
Paladin Integration Engineering |
1) Administrative Matters
a) Approval of the Agenda
Agenda modified by Frank and Doug
b) Membership, attendance list, and address list
Membership list passed around
See attendance list above.
c) Review of minutes of previous meeting
No comments, minutes accepted
2) L8 Reports
a) Report on NCITS/L8 Task Group for Technical Development meetings (J. Newton)
Meetings covered 20943, 20944, 11179 projects. Meeting was abbreviated by snow in December. Await confirmation for the room assignments for upcoming meetings.
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b) Report on JTC1/SC32/WG2 matters (L. Fitzwater)
No new items. SC32 and WG2 meetings in January in Santa Fe. Scheduled for last week in January and first week in February. Agenda will be proposed during opening meeting. Monday afternoon is opening plenary. Need tutorial about WG2 for SC32. Dan will provide delegate list.
c) Report on JTC1/SC32 matters (B. Bargmeyer)
SC32 meeting scheduled for January. Additional fee of $250 needed for meeting. Must register for SC32 meeting. Burt might be able to fund reception at SC32. EPA is funding secretariat, for 2 years, with one year extension. Letter of notice to be sent to SC32 and JTC1 TAGs.
d) Report on NCITS/L8 matters (D. Gillman)
All projects international New members to join. Dan gave annual report to INCITS November meeting.
e) Report from JTC1 Plenary (F. Farance)
Last JTC1 plenary in
1) Criteria for making standards freely available e.g. previously freely available, definitional, framework or architecture
2) Term publically available should be replaced by freely available
3) 11179, 20943, 20944 to be made freely available
4) Could request to make all the work as new parts of 11179, therefore 11179 is the freely available series
5) Problem with making drafts available
6) Business plan, delta value, jtc1 value of standards are useful documents. Delta value describes why one wants to bring work into jtc1
7) New working group for technology watch – removing responsibility from individual SCs
8) Catalog of general agreement with consortia and other committees9) Study groups on new technologies, such as Linux
10) Societal and cultural awareness
11) Improve cooperation between SCs and other organizations
12) SC37 is new SC on biometrics
13) National body comment template problems are going to be improved
14) Frank and Doug working on standards terminology management
15) Standards metadata
3) Liaison reports
a) TC204 and ITS
TC 204 – Andy reported. With TC 204 (renamed Intelligent Transport Systems), major initiative, ISO 14817 (requirement for TICS data dictionary) FIDS ballot closed with no comments and all concurred. Incorporates ideas from ISO/IEC 11179. Several countries planning to implement: US,
Burt reported. ITS data registry is still ongoing. Configuration Control Cmte meets every month, on harmonization. 3300 data items. 30-40 are certified. One issue regards enhancements and bug fixes, but board hasn’t met to address these. IEEE leading effort on Common Data Dictionary – for person, location, time, etc (IEEE 1453). Builds on previous work (IEEE 1489 and ISO 14817)
b) OMG (B. Bargmeyer)
DAMA International is co-sponsoring Open Forum. Met 3 weeks ago with head of OMG in
c) W3C (B. Bargmeyer)
Attended advisory committee meeting. Tried to get them to see the need for registries, especially Eric Miller. Invited EPA to join semantic web effort.
d) TC 211 and L1 (D. Gillman)
19115 elements are in EDR. GIS community is interested in using registry for geographic data sets. GIS metadata (ISO 19115) is out for DIS ballot.
e) TC 37 (D. Mann)
No report.
f) TC 215 (D. Mann)
No report.
g) SC 37 (F. Farance)
New SC (Biometrics), US holds the chair and secretariat.
4) Status of Projects
a) Status of ISO/IEC 11179 – revision
i) Part 1 – Framework (D. Gillman)
CD ballot approved without comment. Editor plans to hold an editing meeting at the WG2 meeting.
ii) Part 2 – Classification (J. Carpenter)
WD ready, and probably move to CD at WG2.
iii) Part 3 – Registry Metamodel and Basic Attributes (D. Mann)
Ballot for FDIS closed 3 December. Ballot results will be sent secretariat by ISO. The
iv) Part 4 – Definitions (B. Bargmeyer)
Part 4 is out for FCD ballot, which closes 13 April. A 30 day letter ballot will be conducted. The SC 32 document number is N0909.
v) Part 5 – Naming and Identification (J. Newton)
A new document due in January to base discussion on for WG2, probably not a new CD. Old versions to be put up on WG2 web site.
vi) Part 6 – Registration (L. Fitzwater)
Part 6 has new WD. Want to move to CD in
b) Status of ISO/IEC TR 20943
i) Part 1 – Data Elements (J. Newton)
Ballot for DTR went to JTC1, to closed 28 November. US voted to approve the document. 14,0,6,28 – vote passed.
ii) Part 2 – XML (B. Bargmeyer)
Situation unchanged.
iii) Part 3 – Value Domains (D. Gillman)
PDTR ballot closes 18 December. US approved with comments.
c) Status of NCITS 1058-D and 1059-D
i) Knowledge Interchange Format (M. Gruninger)
Sporadic work, last meeting in spring. Planned meeting on weekend of 25 – 26 January in
ii) Conceptual Graphs (J. Sowa)
d) Status of ISO/IEC 11404 – Language Independent Datatypes (F. Farance)
New draft available. Sent to interested parties, and got some comments. Feedback from SC22/WG11 determined whether another WD or go to CD. Latest draft will go up on L8 web site.
e) Status of ISO/IEC 20944 – Interoperability and Bindings (F. Farance)
Part 0 now renumbered Part 1, and so on for the first 3 parts. The status
f) Status of ISO/IEC 6523
WG2 needs to determine whether 6523 should be reconfirmed, withdrawn, or revised.
g) Status of IRDS Import/Export, ISO/IEC 13238-3
WG2 needs to determine whether 6523 should be reconfirmed, withdrawn, or revised.
5) IR Activities
a) IR Report (F. Farance)
Accessibility (V2 in the
SC 25 needs
US now has TAG to SC35
Frank to be liaison to SC 37 from SC 32.
6) New Business
a) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 0860
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 12/18/02
Subject: Request for List of Delegates to the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data Management and Interchange Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 27-31 January 2003
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 12/20/02
Bruce, Frank, Larry, Doug, Dan, John, Jim M., Nancy, Mike Gruninger, Pat Hayes, Chris Welty, Chris Menzel, Mark Stickel, Arun Majunder, Judy
b) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 0878
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 12/18/02
Subject: Request for List of Delegates to the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 27-30 January 2003
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 12/20/02
c) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 32 N 0879
Date Due to TAG Administrator: 12/18/02
Subject: Request for List of Delegates to the Editing Meeting for ISO/IEC 11179, ISO/IEC 20943, ISO/IEC 20944, ISO/IEC 5218 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 27 January to 4 February 2003
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: 12/20/02
d) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 22 N 3518 http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3518.html
Date Due to TAG Administrator:
Subject: Request for Review of List of Withdrawn Standards, and Recommendations for any standards that should be transitioned to stabilized status
SC/JTC 1 Due Date:
Nothing to worry about
e) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 22 N 3524 http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3524.html
Date Due to TAG Administrator:
Subject: Request for Participants to Organize and participate in an ad hoc to perform a marketing and education function within SC 22-related areas
SC/JTC 1 Due Date:
f) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 22 N 3519 http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3519.html
Date Due to TAG Administrator: Open
Subject: Request for Comments on JTC 1 Resolution on Electronic Document Distribution Guidelines
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: n/a
Discussed earlier regarding JTC1 document availability.
g) US TAG: INCITS/L8
SC: 22 N 3520 http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3520.html
Date Due to TAG Administrator: Open
Subject: Request for Comments on JTC 1 Long Term Business Plan and its Implementation ("invent and apply roadmaps .........")
SC/JTC 1 Due Date: n/a
No action required. Recommend SC32 point to these JTC1 documents business plan, value plan etc (See SC 36 web site)
h) Determination and Approval of US position to WG2 meeting in
7) Future Meeting Schedule
8) Adjournment