Recommendations of May 2005 Meeting of WG3
1. FCD 13250-2: Topic Maps -- Data Model
WG3 accepts N640 as the Meeting Notes from
Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments
in N613. The Editors are further instructed to
incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting into a new
draft and circulate it to the Working Group before July 1 2005
with a view to getting feedback from the Montreal meeting before
submitting the document for FDIS ballot.
2. FCD 13250-3: Topic Maps -- XML Syntax
WG3 accepts N641 as the Meeting Notes from
Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments
in N614. The Editors are further instructed to
incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting into a new
draft and circulate it to the Working Group before July 1 2005
with a view to getting feedback from the Montreal meeting before
submitting the document for FDIS ballot.
3. FCD 13250-4: Topic Maps -- Canonical XML Syntax
WG3 accepts the resignation of Kal Ahmed and appoints Eric Freese and
Prof. Jaeho Lee as Editors. WG3 accepts N642 as
the Meeting Notes from Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to
National Body comments in N615. The Editors are
further instructed to incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam
meeting into a new draft and circulate it to the Working Group
before July 28 2005 with a view to getting feedback from the
Montreal meeting before submitting the document for FDIS ballot.
WG3 calls for additional implementations of CXTM before the Montreal
meeting in order to thoroughly test the specification.
4. WD 13250-5: Topic Maps -- Reference Model
WG3 accepts N643 as the Meeting Notes from
Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments
in N618. The Editors are further instructed to
incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting into a new
draft and circulate it to the Working Group before July 1 2005
with a view to getting feedback from the Montreal meeting before
submitting the document for a new CD ballot.
5. CD 18048 Topic Maps -- Query Language
WG3 accepts N644 as the Meeting Notes from
Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to National Body comments
in N619. The Editors are further instructed to
incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting into a new
draft and circulate it to the Working Group, preferably before July
28 2005 with a view to getting feedback from the Montreal meeting
before submitting the document for a new CD ballot.
6. CD 19756 Topic Maps -- Constraint Language
WG3 accepts N621 as additional National Body
comments from Norway and N645 as the Meeting
Notes from Amsterdam and instructs the Editors to respond to National
Body comments in N620. The Editors are further
instructed to incorporate the decisions taken at the Amsterdam meeting
into a new draft and circulate it to the Working Group, preferably before July
28 2005 with a view to getting feedback from the Montreal meeting
before submitting the document for a new CD ballot.
7. RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
WG3 expresses its support for the work of the W3C's Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group on RDF/Topic Maps
interoperability. Members of the Topic Maps community are encouraged to
provide feedback on the Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
Proposals (N607) and to participate actively
in the development of the Guidelines for RDF/Topic Maps
Interoperability.
WG3 thanks Anne Cregan for her work on representing Topic Maps in
OWL/DL. WG members are requested to provide detailed feedback to her in
order to ensure the accuracy of her representation and encourages the
author to assist the work of the RDFTM Task Force of the SWBPD.
8. Compact Syntax for Topic Maps
WG3 notes the existence of two text-based notations for representing
topic maps, AsTMa= and the Linear Topic Map Notation (LTM)
and recognizes the need for a standard notation of this type. Such a
notation would complement the XML interchange syntax in order to provide
a simple, compact notation for:
- manually authoring topic maps
- providing human-readable examples
- providing a common, lightweight syntax as a basis for TMCL and
TMQL
WG3 thanks the Korean National Body for offering to submit a New Work
Item Proposal (NP) in this area and requests that it works with the
Convenor of WG3 to achieve this as soon as possible. The new standard
should be Part 6 of ISO 13250. WG3 requests Gabriel Hopmans and Prof.
Sam Oh to perform initial work on CTM between now and the Montreal
meeting.
In addition, WG3 encourages the Topic Maps community to put forward
proposals for a standard graphical notation for topic maps with a view
to providing input to a possible Part 7 of ISO 13250.
9. Next WG3 meeting
The next WG3 meeting will be held on July 28-31 in Montreal, Canada,
in conjunction with IDEAlliance's Extreme Markup 2005
conference. Further meetings are provisionally planned for Atlanta, GA
in November 2005 and Seoul in April/May 2006.
10. SC34 2006 Q2 Plenary
In recognition of the contributions made to SC34's work by Japan and
Korea over many years, WG3 recommends that the SC34 2006 Q2 Plenary
be held in Seoul.
