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Subject: Amended Minutes for TC Meeting 6-18-03
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:38:18 -0700
Title: Amended Minutes for TC Meeting
6-18-03
Here are the amended minutes for this
month's meeting, with thanks to James for clarifications.
June 18, 2003
Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical
Committee.
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Roll Call:
Voting Members:
Rex Brooks
Rob Nixon
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Sylvia Candelaria deRam
James Landrum
Joseph Norris
Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks
Meeting convened12:10 p.m. Eastern Time due to a mistaken 800 prefix
number Rex posted instead of the 888 prefix.
Previous meeting minutes accepted.
This meeting was held on the third Wednesday of the Month.
We had a quorum.
As usual, some of these items were actually discussed in a different
sequence from this summary.
Old Business:
James reviewed the various projects he is
working on with the Archeology Technologies Laboratory, North Dakota
State University, Digital Archive Network for Anthropology and
World Heritage (DANA-WH)., which consist
of two separate project proposals.
1. Collaboration with ASU PRISM to develop a Primate 3D
OsteoKnowledgeBase. 3D objects (3D models of skeletal anatomy) are
created using non-contact laser digitizers and computed tomography
(CT), not photogrammetry . While bot P{RISM and ATL use laser scanners
and CT for 3D model generation, the ATL role in 3DosteoKnowledgeBase
project will be to work on the schema and thesauri. That will
entail mapping the schema to the CIDOC CRM, AnatML and HumanML and
more particularly, the HPCDML- with specific attention to anatomical
and taxonomic elements and properties, etc. This will be a 5 year
project. Submission deadline for this program is July 14.
2. The other project proposal (submitted and under review at
NSF)is the ATL collaboration with staff of the Herbert Kairuki
Memorial Unversity and Tanzanian Department of Antiquities to digitize
the Tanzanian collection of fossilized hominid and other non-human
primate remains, as well as associated material culture remains (e.g.,
Oldowan and Acheulean stone tools). This will be a 5 year
project, and wil also involve creation of schema and thesauri, etc.
and this will involve CIDOC CRM, HumanML, HPCDML, AnatML.
The new collaboration with Arizona State
University on a database of primate osteology including digital
photogrammetry of skeletal remains of living and extinct, fossilized
specimens which can be mapped to such languages/vocabularies as
AnatML, HumanML through HPCDML, Nomina Anatomica and the Digital
Anatomist. James said that this work will also incorporate GIS
coordinate mapping.
James said he is presenting on
Thursday AM a paper on DANA-WH at the World
Archeology Conference in Washington, D.C. It is one of 4
presentations in a session on Digital Archives and Access, under the
broader theme of Archaeology in the Digital Age, and there are a
number of other sessions with lots of other papers under that theme.
Pre-conference draft of the paper can be downloaded
( http://godot.unisa.edu.au/wac/pdfs/119.pdf ). After the
conference, session organizers will determine which papers go to peer
review editing process and then publication.
James also mentioned that he is currently
meeting with and planning work with Stephen Stead of the CIDOC CRM
Project.Stephen Stead will be presenting a workshop on CIDOC
CRM to the National Park Service on Friday. James will attend the CRM
SIG meeting in Oxford in early October, and then will be visiting with
other UK researchers at various institutions then will be off to VSMM
in Montreal, and then back to Fargo, so October will be a busy month
for him.
James also mentioned later, in the context
of discussions on 3D digital modeling and animation software packages
that his colleague Aaron Bergstrom, the ATL Visualization
Manager, has arranged training sessions, courtesy of Alias/Wavefront
as part of a corporate donation made to ATL. Alias/Wavefront is
enthusiastic about what they are doing, providing them with
media exposure because they use Maya and make mention of that in their
papers on projects, etc. The close relationship they (especially
Aaron) have developed is due in part to the very well received article
in Nature Magazine on the ATL Neanderthal Hand reconstruction and
animation project in collaboration with Wesley Niewoehner of USC-San
Bernardino. They will be working with
representatives of Alias/Wavefront on training sessions later this
summer.
This may be of some interest since Rex is
working on 3D animation systems for facial expressions that
complements the work of Aaron, James and Rob in motion capture for
developing a kinesic library or gestural vocabulary.
Rob reported that he would be posting ongoing, revisions of the
Charter and Mission Statement he and Sylvia have been working on for
the renamed CogEnv Subcommittee Friday.
Ranjeeth likewise indicated that he would submit the Charter and
Mission Statement for the Conflict Resolution Subcommittee by Friday
as well.
We decided that we will allow two weeks for reading, discussing and
voting on the Charters for the Subcommittees, and then submit them as
a group to OASIS to set up the mechanics for tracking SC work, such as
mailing lists for the subcommittees.
Ranjeeth outlined the steps he sees the CR SC taking, mentioning firs
that he was hoping to find someone else to be the chair of the SC,
hopefully from the government sector. These steps consist first of a
survey gathering requirements from agencies and organizations involved
in this field. This will also serve to publicize the work of the
subcommittee and hopefully generate recruits and participation from a
variety of groups and individuals, which is the second phase or step
of the work Ranjeeth projects. The third step or phase will be
drafting requirements for extensions to HumanML for Conflict
Resolution purposes, presumably something along the lines of a Human
Conflict Resolution Markup Language.
Ranjeeth then reported that he is concentrating on the ongoing work
with the New York Academy of Medicine, which is still planning on
including some provision for working with or preparing to work with
Web Services and Web Standards.
Rex reported that in his work with the Emergency Management TC, and
the GIS Subcommittee of the EMTC, he has come to the conclusion that
fall is the appropriate time to establish formal liaisons to that and
other standards working groups.
Rex also reported that he is nearly finished preparing a proposal for
the facial animation system to submit to the H-Anim working group of
the Web 3D Consortium, which will pave the way for further liaison
work in the fall, after SIGGRAPH2003.
In this connection, Rex said he would try to recruit Sandy to
harmonize work in the HPCDML SC and CAESAR Anthropometric Landmarks in
relation to anatomical interoperability.
James indicated he would do similar work to coordinate his work on
digital archiving of hominids for musculoskeletal standards.
Rob and James said that they are still working toward a
motion-capture-based kinesics vocabulary that will work with HPCDML
and the facial expression animation system Rex is developing.
Sylvia termed this overall system as a superficia, a human gestural
language which we can build a combined database for, including all the
work mentioned.
We adjourned at 12:45 Eastern
Time.
--
Rex Brooks
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W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
Email: rexb@starbourne.com
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