CMDI Taskforce Video Conference 2014-7-30

• What?
  • CMDI 1.2 specification
• Who?
  • Members of the CMDI taskforce and other people involved/interested in specification process
• When?
  • 30 July 2014: 14.00 - 15.00 CET (​closed doodle)
• Where?
  • FlashMeeting: ​http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/74848e-37914

Agenda

(tentative)

• Specification requirements/goals
• Work thus far
• Distribution of work to be done
• Planning

Documents

• CMDI 1.2 specification draft

Meeting notes

• Requirements
  • Separate out best practices, maybe cross reference
  • Dieter: there should be no restrictions on publication
    • Menzo: should not be a problem for this spec
• Work thus far
  • Thorsten is working on the ISO draft which will be published
    • must be in line with CMDI 1.2
    • 1 year left to complete
  • Information currently in spec is adapted from the ISO draft
    • the specification document should look different from ISO document to prevent confusion
    • parallel development of these two
  • Currently missing
    • references
    • definitions for header should comply with CMDI 1.2
    • change component specification language
    • everyone agrees with the following action points:
      • full adaptation to CMDI 1.2 feature set and changes w.r.t. CMDI 1.1
      • further formalisation (e.g. usage of the key words (must, required, should etc) as in the FCS specification), 'sharpening' of definitions etc.
      • inclusion of the specification language UML diagram
      • addition of illustrative and exhaustive XML examples
      • splitting off or at least separating 'best practices' and other bits of text that are less formal and more usage oriented
• Planning & distribution
  • Work on CMDI 1.2 schemas can largely happen concurrently
  • Distribution of work and planning
    • Menzo: I will start working on the toolkit (start in August)
    • Oliver: I want to work on the schema (back in september)
    • Thorsten: I will revise document (not before september)
    • Twan: structure of the document (start in August)
    • Axel: back in september
  • Next meetings:
    • Virtual meeting early September reporting on work done in August by Menzo and Twan
    • Face to face during CLARIN conference 23-25 October, preconference