Minutes of Atlantic UBL TC call 12 December 2007

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF ATLANTIC UBL TC MEETING
WEDNESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2007

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   Mavis Cournane
   Mike Grimley
   Andy Schoka
   Larry Tanner
   Sylvia Webb

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar:
      http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

      None (but see correction to April meeting venue below).

   Review of Pacific call (except items noted below)

      No substantive comments.

SUPPORT PAGE SUBMISSION

   See Pacific minutes under "Support Page Submission."

      AGREED to add the new item.

ISO PUBLIC SUBJECT IDENTIFIERS

   See Pacific minutes under "Other Business."

      AGREED to the proposal from GKH.

   [For those seeking further explanation, see

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/880/psdoc_04.htm

   In particular, note that the description in the Pacific minutes
   conflated two different meanings for "PSI."  From the document
   referenced above:

      A topic map author can indicate what is the subject of a
      topic by referring to a document, or any other kind of
      resource, where the subject appears to be defined in a
      proper and non-ambiguous way. Such a resource will therefore
      be considered by the topic map author as a subject
      indicator. Provided with this resource, an human being will
      be able, hopefully, to know what subject this topic
      represents.

      * A subject indicator is a resource that is referred to by
         the topic map author to provide an unambiguous indication
         of the identity of a subject. Any resource can become a
         subject indicator by being referred to as such from
         within some topic map, whether or not it was intended by
         its publisher to be a subject indicator.

      Since topic maps live in the Web universe, the subject
      indicator has to be an addressable (network-retrievable)
      resource. The reference to the subject indicator will
      therefore use some URI, which will both address the subject
      indicator and identify the subject. Computers applications
      will of course be happy to handle this subject identifier,
      since two topics with the same subject identifier clearly
      refer to the same subject indicator, and therefore represent
      the same subject.

      * A subject identifier is an URI used by a topic map author
         to identify and refer to a subject indicator.]

2008 TC WORK SCHEDULE

   Revised spreadsheets now available:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200712/msg00000.html

      JB: Unless something unexpected happens, this is our work
      schedule for the next year.

2008 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

   See Pacific minutes.

      JB: I have just been reminded that the proposed venue for
      the April 2008 UBL TC meeting changed from Rome to Bologna
      some time ago.  This meeting has not yet been formally
      adopted, but the chance of other details changing at this
      point is quite small.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

   See Pacific minutes (no change).

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC