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Announcements

22 May 2002:

Added a new position paper on schema specialization by Bill Burcham.

17 April 2002:

New version of the use case document is online with comments from Barcelona Face-to-Face (March 18-22, 2002) and Conference Call (March 29, 2002).

2 April 2002:

First release of the Context Methodology portal. The portal is currently rather bare-bones, but significant extensions are planned over the coming weeks. Any suggestions for additional content are welcome.

Charter

The purpose of the CM SC is to develop a methodology and tools for applying context to the core library of generic business information entities (BIEs) in order to produce contextualized BIEs, and develop initial machine-readable descriptions of context rules, in the service of helping the Library Content SC do its work.

Membership

The current members are as follows (quorum is 7):

• Bill Burcham
• Dave Carlson
• Mark Crawford
• Fabrice Desré
• Matt Gertner (chair, maintainer of this page)
• Arofan Gregory
• Phil Griffin
• Eduardo Gutentag
• Eve Maler
• Dale McKay
• Aidan Shackleton
• Gunther Stuhec
• Chandra Tamirisa
• Paul Thorpe

Mailing Lists

The ubl-cmsc list is for use by SC members only. Anyone can view the archive for this list at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-cmsc.

Documents

• Position paper repository ( template):
  • Specialization Architecture a.k.a. Paelle (Bill) with examples
  • Extensions V01 (Arofan)
• CM document repository
  • Use cases from January F2F (last updated 17 April 2002)

Other resources:

• ebXML Document Assembly and Context Rules (v1.04)
  [normative PDF] [normative DOC] [print PDF] [print DOC]

Schedule and Minutes

The CM SC currently meets irregularly by conference call and at UBL face-to-face meetings. Some meetings and conference calls are held conjointly with the NDR and/or LC SCs.

• F2F #1 30 October - 1 November 2001 (Menlo Park, CA, USA): minutes/report
• Telecon 6 December 2001: minutes
• Telecon 19 December 2001 (with NDR SC): minutes
• F2F #2 23 - 25 January 2002 (Menlo Park, CA, USA): minutes
• F2F #3 18 - 22 March 2002 (Barcelona, Spain, with EWG meeting): minutes
• Telecon 29 March 2002: minutes
• Telecon 10 April 2002: minutes

Press

See the main UBL page.