Re: [legalxml-legislative] Draft of Potential Part 1 of Replacement forWashington DC Meeting in September - Part 2 in November

Don - 

I thought this looked good, but then
got carried away with editing.  I really only have a couple of items
that I'm wedded to.

1) I have a little bit of concern with
the "greeting" segment.  Coming from the business side of
the house, I read "legislative community" narrowly as just originators
and so think rather quickly that this does not apply to me before I get
to the body near the end where you describe the term legislative community
as including originators, distributors, and consumers.  I think the
easiest fix is to just eliminate the greeting phrase.  The style of
the document is more toward announcement which needs no "greeting"
to the addressee rather than a letter.

2) I suggest spelling out the NCSL and
NALIT acronyms.  As these may be new and unfamiliar organizations
to those on the consuming end of the continuum.

3) I'm torn between preannouncing Working
Session #2 and not including it.  On the one hand, I like the idea
of building enthusiasm for materials becoming tangible quickly which is
suggested by the second working session.  On the other hand, I don't
want people to read this invitation and decide to just wait until session
2 to be involved.  See what you think.

Thanks,

Kelly D. Ray

Senior Manager

Advisory Services

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(home office) 972-881-2420

(voicemail/fax) 214-853-4264

(cell) 972-896-5834



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[legalxml-legislative] Draft
of Potential Part 1 of Replacement for Washington DC Meeting    
   g in September - Part 2 in November

Legislative Documents Technical
Committee

 

         
                     
                     
                     
                    July
30, 2004

Initial Announcement & Agenda

 

OASIS LegalXML-Legislative 1-day Face-To-Face
Workshop

September 7, 2004 – Burlington Vermont 

Collocated with NCSL – NALIT & Legal
Services Staff Section Professional Development Seminars

 

Members of the Legislative Community,

 

OASIS LegalXML invites you to join the current
members of the Legislative Documents Technical Committee for
the first in a series of periodic face-to-face working sessions.  This
meeting is open to all Originators, Distributors and Consumers of Legislative
and Regulatory Information! 

In this first workshop, we will
identify the various
needs for Data Standards in the Legislative
and Regulatory Community
and prioritize our work in addressing those needs, with the following specific
objectives:

refine the charter of the Technical
Committee 

define the roadmap of committee
deliverables

begin executing on the roadmapIn
this upcoming session, we
will be expanding our outreach to the community in an interactive participatory
workshop targeted at incorporating
the diverse needs
and objectives from the various
constituents in the legislative and regulatory continuum into the Technical
Committee's charter and prioritizing the work of the technical committee
in accordance with the goals and the
specific near term needs
of these
constituents.

 

The format of the workshop is designed to
engage all the participants in both in the identification and prioritization
of this effort and to expose potential members to one of the more effective
workshop methods used in the XML Standards Community.

 

In order to
foster rapid and effective implementation
and adoption, standards
must recognize and account
for the diverse
viewpoints in
its conceptualization and design.
Once goals
and requirements are accounted for, prioritization and planning can
be done effectively. Please join
us in giving this effort a solid start.

For further information, please
contact:

Donald L. Bergeron / Daniel Bennett

Co Chairs
Legislative Documents Technical Committee

 

Please Contact us at:


or (937) 865-1276

Visit us at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=legalxml-legislative

(Initial Agenda available on back side of
this page)

Initial Agenda

Understanding Legislative / Regulatory Community

Time Block 1 – 1-5 PM EDST

History of LegalXML-Legislative Work to Date

Standards Experience in Legislative &
Regulatory Standards Efforts 

What are some of the artifacts we work with
that may become covered doctypes?

Model Legislation - Bills – Hearings –
Exhibits – Enactments – Codified Statutes – Votes

Proposed Regulations – Hearings – Exhibits
– Registers – Accepted Regulations – Codified Regulations – Filings
& Forms

Bibliographic Data – Citations – Taxonomies
– Ontologies 

Perspectives on Goals & Requirements
for Legislative XML Standards, Especially the relationship to Legislative/Regulatory
Artifacts

Originator View – National 

Originator View – State

Originator View – International

Distributor View – Publisher

Distributor View – Lobbyist 

Consumer View – Corporate 

Consumer View – Analyst 

Consumer View – Public Access

Working Session 1 - Goals & Perceived
Needs Time Block 2 – Dinner – 5:15
– 7 PM EDST

Exposure to Content Initiatives with related
objectives 

Other Regulatory initiatives

 EPAL/P3P

 XBRL

RuleML

OASIS LegalXML 

Electronic Court Filing

Integrated Justice

Other Information Communication Wrapper Initiatives

EBXML

OASIS LegalXML Legal EnvelopeTime
Block 3 – 7:15 – 9:30 PM EDST

·
       Working Session
2 – Identifying Potential Deliverables & Priorities