The draft charter was reviewed and a new version was produced.
This was subsequently presented to,
and accepted by, The Open Group
Board.
Sam Ceccola of BEA Systems was appointed interim Working Group chair,
and Arnold van Overeem of Capgemini was appointed interim vice-chair, pending full elections.
A Steering Committee was appointed consisting of Sam and Arnold plus Ron Schuldt of Lockheed Martin
and Chris Harding of The Open Group.
The scope and leadership of four new projects was discussed and agreed:
- Semantics and SOA
- Vocabulary Management
- Semantics and TOGAF Information Architecture
- Semantic Framework and Reference Model
In a joint session with the SOA Working Group,
the importance of semantic interoperability for SOA, and the need
for an Information Architecture Reference Model, were established.
Plans were made for promotion and outreach, and for expanding participation.
The status of the existing UDEF project was reviewed:
- UDEF Extension: Version 1.01 approved January 2007;
Version 1.02 agreed July 2007, requires re-ballot
- UDEF Internationalization:
Dutch version of UDEF ready for team review June 2007
- UDEF Registry and Management Tool:
Requirements specification proposal submitted June 2007
- UDEF Challenge:
Electronic health record domain selected for setup of vendor challenge;
initial version of scenario submitted for review May 2007
- UDEF Registry Switching: Proposal submitted January 2007
- UDEF Administration:
Extension guide published October 2006;
scripts for generation of XML, RDF, and HTML representations from workspreadsheets and previous version created July
2007
An in-depth training session was held.
