1. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Topic Maps Technical Committees Standards Update Presentation Knowledge Technologies Conference Seattle - 2002, March 11 Bernard Vatant - Chair Topic Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee

2. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

3. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS technical work process 1. Any three OASIS members propose creation of 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 an OASIS 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

4. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 Services for Interactive Applications Web Services Remote Portal XSLT Conformance

5. Copyright OASIS, 2002 TopicMaps.Org Milestones January 2000 –Topic Maps specification ISO 13250 –TopicMaps.Org - independent consortium February 2000 –TopicMaps.Org kicks off technical work on 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

6. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 ?

7. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

8. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

9. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 published classifications 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.

10. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 developing Published Subjects for specific fields: GeoLang, XMLvoc...

11. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

12. Copyright OASIS, 2002 GeoLang Technical Committee Deliverables 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

13. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

14. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

15. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

16. Copyright OASIS, 2002 For more information... OASIS website http://www.oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org Summary and current status of each TC http://oasis-open.org/committees/committees.shtml http://oasis-open.org/committees/committees.shtml TCs mailing list archives http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives PubSubj TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj GeoLang TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang XMLVoc TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmlvoc http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmlvoc