Candidate Statement of Use from Temis

I propose this paragraph. Let me know if you
think the wording can be improved. 

 

Temis 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.  

Temis main product, Luxid®, is build from
the ground using the UIMA Apache implementation , enhances any existing
UIMA-compliant applications and easily integrates and manages any third-party
UIMA-compliant annotators.

 

 

Pascal

Pascal Coupet

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder

TEMIS INC

1518 Walnut Street, suite 1702, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA

Tel:   +1 215 732 2549 ext 112 

Mob:  +1 215 609 2514

Fax:   +1 215 732 0490 

www.temis.com

 

From: David Ferrucci
[mailto:] 

Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:18 PM

To: 

Subject: [uima] 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. 

-------------------------------------------------------------

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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