wiki:Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20140915

CMDI Taskforce Video Conference 2014-9-15

Agenda

(tentative)

  • Menzo (& Oliver?): state of the toolkit
  • Twan: proposal for specification document structure
  • Thorsten: report on/plans for document revision
  • Planning w.r.t. specification document

Documents

Meeting notes

  • Toolkit (Menzo)
    • Some restructuring of the tookit project has been done for CMDI 1.2
    • Work has been done on the schemas and XSLTs
    • Testing
      • components & records
      • There is no complete test set yet (input needed)
    • 'Upgrade' part of toolkit
      • component upgrading done
      • currently working on CMDI record upgrade (update: done)
    • Planning
      • more tests, specifically invalid cases
      • test harness: maven(-like) project with CMDI validator for testing
    • Some issues found in cmdi 1.2 proposal while working on the toolkit
      • renaming, aligning of attributes
      • display priority
      • more cleanup (e.g. consistent usage of upper/lower case)
  • Specification document structure (Twan)
    • See below for a proposal
      • Some small changes compared to current structure
      • No one opposes
  • Work on specification document (Thorsten)
    • ISO document in the process
    • Some questions
      • Changes in cmdi 1.2 w.r.t. resource relations
        • who can help?
          • reviewing draft
          • Jens volunteers
      • Discussion in ISO group about using XML in document standards
        • Distinction between structure and markup
    • Will work on spec one day this week
    • Menzo: there can be some divergence between the ISO document and CLARIN document (but try to harmonise)
      • Thorsten: CLARIN spec should be a valid instantiation of ISO document
    • Menzo: people can review changes. People who worked on CMDI 1.2 proposal specifically
  • Planning
    • Completion toolkit (Menzo, Oliver)
    • Work on specification - based toolkit and CMDI 1.2 proposal (Thorsten)
    • CMDI 1.2 task force members review ISO document (Jens, ...)
    • Find testers, primarily from task force (coordinators)
  • Discussion
    • Menzo: wiki page is copy of ISO document. Will Thorsten work on Wiki? Will there be a split at some point?
      • Thorsten suggests to keep documents the same as long as possible
        • Insert notes which are (not) relevant for ISO
        • Thorsten: How far are we actually with CMDI 1.2? Split only when it's done.
          • Menzo: what is 'done'? :) Proposal is done & accepted, toolkit is first implementation step
          • First CMDI 1.2 specification, ISO should be distilled from this
          • Thorsten: not sure if no XML can be contained in the ISO document (for the sake of being specific)
    • Conclusion: start with most specific specification, distill more generic specification as needed
      • Menzo: at some point the XML spec should be frozen (after toolkit has been thoroughly tested)

Proposed document structure

  • Introduction
    • Terminology
    • Glossary
    • Normative References
    • Non-Normative References
    • Typographic and XML Namespace conventions
  • Structure of CMDI metadata record files
    • Header
    • Resources section
      • Resource proxy list
      • Journal File Proxy List
      • Resource Relation List
      • Is-Part-of List
    • Components section
  • CMDI Component Specification Language
    • CCSL header
    • Component definition
    • Element definition
    • Cardinality of elements and components
    • Describing multilingual content
    • Attributes for elements and components
  • Transformation of CCSL into XML Schema Definitions
    • Interpretation of hierarchies of the CCSL
    • Interpretation of the order or elements
    • Interpretation of attributes
  • Normative Appendix
    • XML schema of the CMDI component specification language
  • Non-normative Appendix
    • Example CMDI instance
    • Example instance of a component specification
  • Bibliography
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