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Subject: Proposed Charter for OASIS UOML-X TC
To OASIS Members: A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language eXtended (UOML-X) Technical Committee. In accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2: (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#s2.2) the proposed charter is hereby submitted for comment. The comment period shall remain open until 11:45 pm ET on 10 March 2008. OASIS maintains a mailing list for the purpose of submitting comments on proposed charters. Any OASIS member may post to this list by sending email to: mailto:oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. All messages will be publicly archived at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/. Members who wish to receive emails must join the group by selecting "join group" on the group home page: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oasis-charter-discuss/. Employees of organizational members do not require primary representative approval to subscribe to the oasis-charter-discuss e-mail. A telephone conference will be held among the Convener, the OASIS TC Administrator, and those proposers who wish to attend within four days of the close of the comment period. The announcement and call-in information will be noted on the OASIS Charter Discuss Group Calendar. We encourage member comment and ask that you note the name of the proposed TC [UOML-X] in the subject line of your email message. Regards, Mary --------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org phone: 603.232.9090 =========== PROPOSED CHARTER FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT Name OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language eXtended (UOML-X) Technical Committee Statement of Purpose The purpose of this TC is to carry on the existing OASIS UOML TC's goal of developing and maintaining the XML-based operation interface standard for unstructured documents. The Unstructured Operation Markup Language specification will define an XML schema for universal document operations. The schema is suitable for operating printable documents, including create, view, modify, and query information, that can be printed on paper, e.g. books, magazine, newspaper, office documents, maps, drawings, blueprints, but is not restricted to these kinds of documents. There are several commercial and free applications available based on the current draft of UOML cited below, with more currently under development. Scope The resulting specification must meet the following requirements: * It must be suitable for printable documents. * It must define universal operations to these documents, including create, view, modify, query, retrieve, security control, user interaction etc. * It must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications. * It must process layout-based information suitable for presenting the document. * It must be friendly to document related applications. * It must be cross-platform and program language independent. The existing UOML specification part 1 developed by UOML TC meets the above criteria. It is anticipated that it will be contributed to the TC as a starting point for its work. A standard for document operation will be of great utility to many users and software companies developing applications, and should be made available as soon as possible. Deliverables The UOML specification will be composed of several parts. First part describes operations that should be used to create, read, write, edit, display/print document. The other parts describe operations for security control (include DRM), query, document organizing etc., depend on the decision of this TC. The work of this TC has been divided into two phases: In the first phase, the TC will review the existing UOML Specification Part 1 developed by UOML TC, and submit to public review by the end of Q2 of 2008. TC will push the UOML Specification Part 1 to become OASIS Standard in 2008. In the meantime, we can start the second phase. In the second phase, this TC will develop the other parts of UOML specification, to encompass additional areas of applications or users, and maintain the existing part(s) which may also include adapting the specification to recent developments. The work of this TC in the second phase will additionally allow for the following areas: o enabling additional areas of application, o exploring new or experimental ideas for document operation, and o extending the expressiveness of the operation. The TC also may choose to submit completed and approved work to other organizations in accordance with the OASIS Liaison Policy. Each of the drafts will include a set of XML schemas setting the vocabulary, constraints and semantics of each operation in question, and a set of written specifications that describe the elements and attributes of the schemas in plain English. Anticipated audience: The anticipated audience for this work includes, but is not restricted to: * Developers of document related applications; * Developers of DoCbase Management System(DCMS); and * Other specification writers that need document operations or parts of it. Language The TC shall conduct its proceedings in English. IPR Mode The TC will operate under the RF on RAND Mode under the OASIS IPR Policy. Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC Related and similar work The UOML-X TC takes on work from the OASIS UOML Technical Committee. Developers and users of office application and document formatting specifications such as the OASIS OpenDocument Format ("ODF") may also find UOML useful. However, UOML addresses a different set of functions. The proposed UOML specification will operate on layout-based formatting information, rather than content-based formatting information (such as ODF). UOML will limit its functions to abstracting data from paper form, and defines an operation interface, rather than a file storage format. Anticipated contributions It is expected that the existing UOML specification will be contributed to the TC by the member of UOML TC and China Docbase Standard Committee. Proposed working title UOML Specification Proposed date, time, and location of first TC meeting Date: April 23, 2008 Time: 3:00AM, Eastern U.S. Duration:1 hour Mode: Teleconference Telephone: To be decided prior to the first meeting Sponsor: Sursen Co. On-going schedule Monthly 1 hour teleconferences sponsored by Sursen Co. Proposers: Alex Wang, dlwang@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Andy Lee, javola@vip.sina.com, Changfeng Alliance Stephen Green, stephen.green@systml.co.uk, Individual Allison Shi, allison_shi@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Liwei Wang, wangliwei@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Ninsheng Liu, liuningsheng@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Mendy Liu, liumingjuan@sursen.com, UOML Alliance Xu Guo, guoxu@sursen.com, Sursen Co. Lin Cheng, chenglin@ch2000.com.cn, Beijing Redflag CH2000 Software Co. Ltd. Pine Zhang, pine_zhang@sursen.com, UOML Alliance Convener: Alex Wang, Sursen Co., dlwang@sursen.com
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