OASIS UIMA TC Next Steps (For our Call on THIS Friday the 24th)

Hi All,

We will have our call this Friday, the
24th at 11AM EDT

We will discuss next steps in getting
our standard through the OASIS process and finally approved.

On Friday's call we will:

Review the process (see details
below)

Agree to have Mary McRae open
a ballot for the UIMA TC to approve our latest Committee Draft as a Committee
Specification

Discuss timing and schedule
collection of the Statements of Use from our TC members.

As we will discuss there is not much
left for the TC to do  -- essentially  another quick note, collection
of a few "Statements of Use" and then submission for OASIS votes.

See you on Friday.

Regards,

        Dave

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-- DETAILS ON THE PROCESS --

The  60-day Public Review period
has ended, and we did not receive any comments.  The next steps are
as follows:

Hold another TC vote to approve
our latest Committee Draft as a Committee Specification (but this vote
has some special requirements - see below).

Collect 3 Statements of Use,
which are written statements by OASIS Organizational Members stating that
they are successfully using or implementing the specification.

Submit the Committee Specification
along with the Statements of Use to the TC Administrator (Mary McRae) to
be sent out to the OASIS Membership for a Vote.  We have to submit
by the 15th of a month in order to have it be sent out to the OASIS membership
at the beginning of the following month.

The first 15 days of that month
are a review period, and voting opens on the 16th of the month and remains
open for the remainder of the month.  We need 15% of the OASIS Members
to vote to approve the specification.

So to take the next step, we expect
to get Statements of Use from at least Eric Nyberg, Karin Verspoor, Pascal
Coupet, and one from IBM.

Adam drafted the following possible
statement of use for IBM

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IBM is successfully using the UIMA CAS
XML and UIMA Type System XML specifications and schemas in accordance with
the conformance clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management
Architecture 1.0 specification.  Our use is based on the Apache UIMA
open source implementation and includes the interoperation of multiple
independent component implementations.

More details on the process are below.

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Vote to Approve Committee Draft as
Committee Specification

After the public review of a Public Review Draft the TC
may approve the specification as a Committee Specification. If any comments
have been received during the most recent Public Review period, that vote
may not commence any earlier than 7 days after the last day of that Public
Review. The approval of a Committee Specification shall require a Special
Majority Vote. The TC Chair shall notify the TC Administrator that the
TC is ready to vote on the approval of the specification, and provide to
the TC Administrator the location of the editable versions of the specification
files. The TC Administrator shall set up and conduct the ballot to approve
the Committee Specification. 

A Special Majority Vote is a TC vote
in which at least 2/3 (two thirds) of the Voting Members vote " yes"
and no more than 1/4 (one fourth) of the Voting Members vote "no".
These numbers are based on the total number of Voting Members, regardless
of the number of Voting Members present in the meeting).  This ballot
is not created by us but by the OASIS TC Administrator (Mary McRae).  

Examples of Statements of Use from
Other OASIS Standards

Here are some other examples of Statements
of Use that I found, for comparison:

  We ESi, Inc. are successfully
using the "Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital Availability
Exchange (HAVE) Specification Version 1.0", in accordance with the
mandatory conformance clauses stated in the specification.  

 We (IBM Belgium) are successfully
using the EML specifications and schemas in accordance with the conformance
clauses specified in the Process and Data Requirements document. Our use
has included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations
(i.e. IBM Belgium - EDS).

 

 Planetwork, Inc. is successfully
using the XRI Syntax 2.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0 specifications and schemas
in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the XRI Resolution
2.0 specification. Our use has included the interoperation of multiple
independent implementations, including the 2idi i-broker and the barx XRI
proxy resolver.

 NeuStar, Inc. is successfully
using the XRI Syntax 2.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0 specifications and schemas
in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the XRI Resolution
2.0 specification. Our use has included the interoperation of multiple
independent implementations, including operation of the XDI.org Global
Registry Services for = and @ global context registries for i-names and
i-numbers, operation of the associated XRI authority resolution servers,
operation of the xri.net public proxy resolver using the open source OpenXRI
code base, and operation of authority resolution servers for the @dotus
and @neustar community XRI spaces.

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David A. Ferrucci, PhD

Senior Manager, Semantic Analysis & Integration 

Chief Architect,  UIMA

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532

Tel: 914-784-7847, 8/863-7847



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