ANSI INCITS
L8 Metadata TGTD meeting
Date: Thursday, June 19 - Friday, June
20,
2003, 9-5
Place: NIST, Room
152
1)
Administrative Items
Agenda review:
Frank Farance’s 20944 reports
requested and
deferred to Friday am.
Introduction of visitors: Ed Barkmeyer; Kate Dolan (sent for N. Lawler). Kate brings a strong background in both library and information science.
Attendees: (in
person) Judy
Newton, Burt Parker, Bill Kenworthy, Theresa Krol, Dan Gillman, Mike Gruninger,
Ed Barkmeyer, Jim Carpenter, Laura Reece, Kate Dolan
(by phone): Frank Farance, Jim Mercurio
Additional
items:
Judy put forth a request from DAMA-NCR that L-8 request
INCITS be a sponsor for the Metatopia symposium in September. Name only, no
funds required. Recommendation required
by June 30 for review in Executive meeting.
Judy reported that Metatopia will be held in Alexandria,
VA, at the Oldtown Hilton on September 29-30, 2003. Call for Papers is out; proposals are required by July 10.
2) L8 Reports
a) Report on Ontology-related Projects,
including discussion of NP for CG/KIF:
Mike Gruninger
MG reported difficulty in getting votes to the
table on N0956, Common Logic.
DG agreed to contact Australian representative Don Bartley; FF will do the
same with UK reps. Mike will send representative contact information to DG and FF. There is substantial work going on in these
countries on this work, but the national bodies are not getting the votes to the
table.
b) Discussion of Voting, Consensus,
Obligation, and Attendance at Meetings -
Dan Gillman
Dan reiterated his stand on the need for members to
prepare and submit comments well in advance of meetings to
permit review and discussion so that consensus can be reached more easily in
the meeting. FF commented on the
process, that there is a need to have a strategy for reviewing comments and
deriving a clear national position on direction of a position.
3) Status of Projects
a) Status of ISO/IEC 11179 revision
i) Part 1 Framework (D. Gillman) - Review of U.S.
Comments for WG2 Ballot.
Final decision was deferred to July meeting to permit more review of those comments
already
submitted and the participation of more members.
Dan led the review
of some Pt 1
comments.
All members present agreed on progressing all
parts of 11179 to facilitate Pt 3 progression when it occurs.
There was discussion of the
impact of
failing FCD of Pt. 1. No decision
can be reached without
more attendees present. Members
explained it
may certainly be reasonable, however also embarrassing, to fail Pt. 1 at
FCD.
ii) Part 2 Classification (J. Carpenter)
Jim Carpenter reported there
had not been
a great deal
of progress on Part 2. Substantial
discussion ensued on how to progress Pt. 2, including whether any of its
content cannot be covered in Pt. 3. JC
put forth several ideas for Pt. 2 content discussion, including guidelines and
principles for well-formed CS, ontology of CS, and categories of CS.
FF requested a standard way to reference agreed upon
relationship types. This is in specific reference to Fig. A-1 of Pt. 2,
Conceptual_Scheme_Item_Relationship_Type_Description—string.
DG will
initiate email discussion and comment after this meeting with the hope of
having some progress by July meeting. Location of
document under discussion is at SAF site (March 2003 version). FF and JC will proceed with further
discussion of FF’s ideas.
iii) Part 3 Registry Metamodel
and Basic Attributes (D. Mann)
Doug unable to attend due to
illness.
Defect reports on Pt. 3 from Ray Gates were examined and reviewed. Results were
agreement on
1, no agreement on 2, and no agreement on 3. Discuss again in July with
more members present.
iv) Part 4 Definitions (B. Bargmeyer) - Results of WG2 Ballot
Passed ballot 9/0/1/2
v) Part 5 Naming and Identification (J. Newton) -
Results of WG2 Ballot
Passed ballot 7/3/0/1
vi) Part 6 Registration (L. Fitzwater) - Results of WG2 Ballot
Passed ballot 6/0/2/1
b)
Status of ISO/IEC TR 20943
i) Part 1 Data Elements
(J. Newton)
Awaiting notice of publication by ISO.
ii) Part 2 XML (R. Gates)
No report.
iii) Part 3 Value Domains
(D. Gillman)
Sent for DTR ballot
c) Common Logic (J. Sowa)
See MG’s report above.
d) Status of ISO/IEC 11404 Language Independent Datatypes (F. Farance)
FF needs to follow this up; CD isn’t out yet.
e) Status of ISO/IEC 20944 Interoperability and Bindings (F. Farance)
FF getting this done to send out
soon. Capability of general aggregation
has been added.
4)
Other Topics
WG2 Ballots on:
Document SC 32 N 0974, Proposed NP for
Information Technology - Metadata registries (MDR) - Part X: Registration
authority process
Did not pass.
Needs 5 P members voting to participate and support; received 4 (Q3). 1 country voted not to support with comments; if comments are
answered satisfactorily, then it will support. FF would like to pursue
getting the vote with comments changed to Yes.
Document SC 32 N 0975, Proposed NP for
Information Technology - Metadata for technical standards and specifications
documents
MD for standards passed; DG will
be editor for this.
Common Logic
CL balloting officially closes today [has since passed;
now a new work item]. CL also short of votes; emailed yesterday that people in
their country were ready
and able to support that project.
5-Year Review of Standards - Dan Gillman
ISO/IEC 6523-1:1998 -- Information technology - Structure for the
identification of organizations and organization parts, Part 1:
Identification of organization identification schemes
ISO/IEC 6523-2:1998 -- Information technology - Structure for the
identification of organizations and organization parts, Part 2: Registration
of organization identification schemes
ISO/IEC 13238-3:1998 -- Information technology - Data management, Part 3:
IRDS export/import facility
DG proposed confirmation of 6523 1,2,
and withdrawal of 13238-3, IRDS
Export-Import Facility.
6523
is Identification of Organizations and is used in
Part 6, thus it is germane to L8 work.
FF moved, JN seconded to confirm 6523, 1,2; withdraw 13238-3.
Count is 9 Yes, 0 against.
5) Additional business:
Discussion of Government Registries meeting. DG
attended. Members suggested having it close to L8 meeting to facilitate
out of towners like JM being able to attend.
6) Future Meeting Schedule
July 16-18 (+Plenary) at NIST
Oct 1-3 (+Plenary) at ITI**
Dec 17-19 (+Plenary) at NIST
Jan 15-16, 2004 at NIST
WG2 in Melbourne, AU Oct 27-31, 2003
**To be confirmed
7)
Adjournment
Meeting
adjourned at 3 pm Friday.