[sc34wg3] Re: [egov] Back in one piece...

Duane Nickull sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:06:38 -0700


Peter:

Awesome to have you there.  This validates our groups activities within 
the areas of context, data element reconciliation, UBL, UNCEFACT CCTS, 
CC-Review and many other areas.

Duane

Peter F Brown wrote:

> To those of you who were in Amsterdam:
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> Apologies for my sudden disappearance on Wednesday morning – as some 
> of you know, I took a tumble after a collision with an Amsterdam 
> cyclist*, and my subsequent visit to the clinic meant that I missed 
> out on Wednesday's proceedings. Thanks for the many get well messages 
> and expressions of concern, and I can assure you that there are no 
> broken bones just a few sore muscles and feeling a bit phased.
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> On a more business like note, the eGov TC is interested that we now 
> make a formal approach to the European Standards Agency, the CEN, and 
> the European Commission, to launch a piece of work on "semantic 
> interoperability", along the lines discussed in different ways during 
> the two days of workshops in Amsterdam. One caveat – quite correctly – 
> is that this should complement the work of, and progress in tandem 
> with, the other OASIS TCs working in this field. I would include ebXML 
> RegRep Semantic, Topic Maps Published Subjects and UBL-NDRSC. 
> Personally, I see some very powerful synergies to be developed between 
> the Topic Maps paradigm and the ebXML methodology and registry 
> infrastructure
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> After getting feedback from the eEnvoy's office and Ann Wrightson, I 
> will finalise a "business plan" (based on the first draft) for John 
> Borras and I to sign and submit to CEN.
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> All the best,
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> Peter
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> * Having only recently re-acclimatised to the UK (who of course drive 
> the "wrong" way and on the wrong side of the road), my instincts were 
> momentarily confused being back on the European mainland, and looked 
> out the "wrong" way when crossing a cycle path too quickly: "right" 
> was "wrong" and should have been "left"…context is everything, no? ;-)
>

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