- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:22:40 -0400
- To: public-xg-owea@w3.org
Hi, folks- Owen Ambur, who used to work for the US federal government and who is an active participant in the W3C eGov activity, has taken the initiative to help OWEA step through some of the bureaucracy in getting US governmental recognition. I'm forwarding on the email thread to this list. Regards- -Doug -------- Original Message -------- From: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> To: 'Doug Schepers' <schepers@w3.org>, 'John Allsopp' <john@westciv.com> By all means, Doug, yes, please do feel free to forward this to your colleagues on the OWEA XG if you think it may be of interest to them. If you need any additional background, just let me know. For example, although the initial focus of the StratML standard has been the plans that U.S. federal agencies are required to compile and maintain under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), we are aiming to specify the standard generically enough to apply not only to the plans of all organizations worldwide but also individuals who choose to lead mission/goal-directed lives. Such personal plans may include learning objectives, which in turn should be aligned with the teaching objectives outlined in the organizational plans of educational institutions. BTW, John, based upon a query of Mark Logic's StratML search service prototype -- http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm#SearchServices -- the StratML collection currently includes nine plans referencing Australia. Since we aim to establish StratML as an international voluntary consensus standard, we hope that number will grow considerably in the months and years ahead. Owen -----Original Message----- From: Doug Schepers [mailto:schepers@w3.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:41 AM To: Jose M. Alonso Cc: Owen Ambur; Holly Hyland; Kevin Novak; Oscar Azanon; Rachel Flagg; Adam Schwartz; Brand Niemann; John Sheridan; Ari Knausenberger; Jim Revillini; John Allsopp; Glenda Sims Subject: Re: Open Web Education Alliance - XSD for Curriculum Descriptions? Hi, Owen- Nice to hear from you again! (You helped me with that SVG assignation issue a few months ago, which I still need to find connections to follow up on.) Thanks for doing this. I'm copying Glenda Sims, the co-chair of the OWEA XG, because she also happens to be American, so this might be of particular interest to her (John Allsopp is Australian). May I forward on this message to the OWEA XG, with some context information, so we can discuss it? Best Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs Jose M. Alonso wrote (on 7/21/09 7:32 PM): > Thanks, Owen. I'm copying John Allsopp and Doug Schepers (OWEA XG) to > make them aware. > > -- > Jose M. Alonso <josema@w3.org> W3C/CTIC > eGovernment Lead http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/ > > > El 19/07/2009, a las 17:46, Owen Ambur escribió: > >> Jose, I converted OWEA's charter to StratML format and posted it at >> http://xml.gov/stratml/OWEA.xml with a link at >> http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm#W3C >> >> Holly, note that one of OWEA's objectives is to facilitate the sharing of >> curriculum. A search of the Education Registry on that term turns up no >> hits. http://fsaxmlregistry.ed.gov/XMLRegistry/pages/welcome.jsp Do you >> know if anyone has specified an XML schema for the sharing of curriculum >> descriptions? It would be hard to believe that no one has done so, >> although >> it would also be (pleasantly) surprising to think that the education >> community may have coalesced around a standard for the description of >> curriculum. >> >> Here are the best leads turned up via Google: >> >> http://www.elearning.ac.uk/news_folder/xcrischema >> http://www.emis.de/journals/NSJOM/Papers/34_1/nsjom_34_1_157_170.pdf >> >> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=381234.381242 >> >> BTW, Ari Knausenberger's tag cloud demonstration shows that >> "Education" is >> the most commonly named goal in the StratML collection: >> http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm#Ari >> >> Owen Ambur >> Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP >> Co-Chair, AIIM StratML Committee >> Member, AIIM iECM Committee >> Invited Expert, W3C eGov IG >> Communications/Membership Director, FIRM Board >> Former Project Manager, ET.gov >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jose M. Alonso [mailto:josema@w3.org] >> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:51 AM >> To: Owen Ambur >> Cc: Kevin Novak; Oscar Azanon; Rachel Flagg; Adam Schwartz; Brand >> Niemann; >> John Sheridan >> Subject: Re: Open Calais & eGov IG Charter in RDF >> >> El 10/07/2009, a las 5:15, Owen Ambur escribió: >>> Hey, guys, just for the fun of it, I dropped our draft year 2 >>> charter -- http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Charter2 -- into the >>> demo athttp://viewer.opencalais.com/ to see if it might help me >>> better understand the big deal about RDF. >>> >>> While the results are interesting, I must confess that I still don’t >>> quite get what the big deal is. >>> >>> Just for more fun, I also dropped our draft data.gov.* memo into the >>> demo: http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Data-gov-memo And now I >>> am beginning to understand … It identified Oscar as an Entertainment >>> Award Event – clearly distinguishing the significance of his first >>> name from mine, for example. >>> >>> Helping .gov agencies understand the big deal about RDF might be a >>> good task for the eGov IG. >> >> Fully agree with this. >> And not only about RDF but also about Web Architecture and other >> related stuff. We might want to take advantage of the liaison with the >> recently launched OWEA XG --http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/owea/ >> >> -- Jose >> >> >>> If it could be done using the StratML collection as an example, that >>> might be really useful. >>> >>> Owen >>> >>> From: Owen Ambur [mailto:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net] >>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:38 PM >>> To: Brand Niemann >>> Cc: 'sylvia.webb@vision4standards.com'; Betty Harvey; 'Ari >>> Knausenberger'; 'Joe Carmel'; 'partners@opencalais.com' >>> Subject: Open Calais & StratML Documents in RDF >>> >>> Brand, it was good to see you and Brand Jr. again at the DAS meeting >>> this afternoon. Thanks for bringing Open Calais to my attention. >>> >>> I checked out the demo at http://www.opencalais.com/ or, more >>> specifically, http://viewer.opencalais.com/ and was able to generate >>> a result using one of the shorter StratML documents. (It choked on >>> President Obama’s Change.gov agenda: >>> http://xml.gov/stratml/ChangeGov.xml) >>> >>> While the result was interesting, I’m not sure how the capability >>> could be applied to the entire StratML collection, as opposed to >>> each plan, one at a time. >>> >>> Are you aware of any service that might be able to ingest all of the >>> documents whose URLs are listed at http://xml.gov/stratml/urls.xml >>> and automatically generate a query-by-example (QBE) search interface? >>> >>> Anyone who might like to work on such an application? >>> >>> Owen Ambur >>> Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP >>> Co-Chair, AIIM StratML Committee >>> Member, AIIM iECM Committee >>> Invited Expert, W3C eGov IG >>> Communications/Membership Director, FIRM Board >>> Former Project Manager, ET.gov >>> Brief Bio >>> >
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