2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers Symposium

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2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers
Symposium

• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Dan Gillman
• Information Scientist
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Chair INCITS/L8 (Metadata)

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1. TC Scope

• INCITS/L8 (Metadata) works in the broad area of
  metadata standardization for information
  technology. Metadata standards are formal
  descriptions for specific kinds of resources. L8
  work addresses descriptions of data, datatypes,
  models, and standards.

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1. TC Scope

• Major Projects
• ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata registries
• ISO/IEC 11404 General purpose datatypes
• ISO/IEC 15944 Business Agreement Semantic
  Descriptive Techniques
• ISO/IEC 20944 Metadata registry
  interoperability and bindings
• ISO/IEC 24706 Metadata for technical standards
  and specifications documents

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1. TC Scope

• JTC1 TAG Responsibilities
• SC32/WG2 (Metadata)
• 11179
• 20944
• 24706
• SC32/WG1 (Open EDI)
• 15944
• SC22/WG11 (for ISO/IEC 11404 only)
• 11404

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2. Significant Accomplishments

• In past 12 months -
• ISO/IEC 15944-2, FDIS (April)
• ISO/IEC 20944, 2nd CD for 11 parts (March)
• ISO/IEC 24706, CD (This month)
• ISO/IEC 24707, FCD (April)
• ISO/IEC 19763, CDs for multiple parts (November)
• Previously (the year before)
• ISO/IEC 11179 2nd Ed. Published
• ISO/IEC 20944 Eleven Parts Passed CD

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3. Significant Challenges

• Lack of participation
• Changed meeting schedule.
• Membership
• Funding required for participation
• Inconsistent participation
• Lack of comments / Poor voting response
• Voting process hurt

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4. Expected Challenges

• The 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 11179 is initiated.
  The first CDs should appear in October.
• Other standards are progressing.
• Generating comments for ballots is biggest
  concern.
• No other impediments to progress anticipated.

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5. Liaison Activities

• INCITS/L1 and ISO TC 211 (GIS)
• INCITS/V36 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 (Learning
  Objects)
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC25/WG1 (Home Electronics Systems)
• ISO TC 37 (Terminology)
• ISO TC154 (Processes, data elements and documents
  in commerce, industry and administration)
• ISO TC184 (Manufacturing)
• Object Management Group (OMG)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Other liaisons exist at SC32/WG2

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Every year more organizations are implementing
  ISO/IEC 11179 as part of their metadata strategy.
• Many standards activities reference and follow
  ISO/IEC 11179.
• ISO/IEC 11179 is part of the Data Reference Model
  of the Federal Enterprise Architecture
• The Semantic Web is an increasingly important
  initiative. ISO/IEC 11179 (Metadata Registries)
  and ISO/IEC 24707 (Common Logic) are important
  pieces of this work

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• References in standards and other technical work
  to ISO/IEC 11179 increasing
• Data Categories (TC37)
• Core Component Technical Spec (TC154)
• Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (TC154)
• Open Technical Dictionary (TC184)
• Others outside ISO

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Meeting Schedule
• L8
• July 17 - 18 Washington, DC
• September 25 - 26 Washington, DC
• SC 22
• July 22 26 Ottawa, Canada
• SC32/WG2
• October 16 - 20 Huntsville, AL
• SC32/WG1
• October 30 November 2 London, UK
• SC32
• April 30 May 4, 2007 Philadelphia, PA
  (Tentative)

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Member Organizations in L8
• Ashton Computing
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Causal Aspects
• Data Foundations (advisory)
• Dept of Defense DISA (advisory)
• Dept of Defense NSA
• Environmental Protection Agency

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Member Organizations in L8
• Farance, Inc
• Knowledge Solutions
• Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab
• Mayo Clinic
• Michigan State University
• National Cancer Institute
• Raytheon (advisory)

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Member Organizations in L8
• Telcordia
• University of Alabama _at_ Huntsville
• Potential New Members
• Boeing

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7. How Can We Help?

• Need clarification of voting rules
• Large source of disagreements
• Need more members!