Re: U.S. Federal Data Strategy Action Plan

Paola, yes, indeed, our focus should be on global goals. However, 
standards and good practices need not be reinvented by international 
bureaucracies if they have already been specified by someone else -- not 
just nationally recognized SDOs but by anyone, anywhere on earth.

It seems to me that publishing public information in open, standard, 
machine-readable formats having the attributes specified in ISO 15489-1 
is such a good practice.  It would be nice to think IAC might be willing 
and able to foster adoption of that good practice by its stakeholders.  
That is the prospect that prompts my interest in participating in a 
presentation at their conference.

BTW, here in the U.S. official policy since at least 1998 has directed 
agencies to consider using internationally adopted voluntary consensus 
standards.  Here are the applicable sections of OMB Circular A-119 
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Circular-119-1.pdf>:

    h. Does this policy establish a preference between domestic and
    international voluntary consensus standards?
    This policy does not establish a preference between domestic and
    international voluntary consensus standards. However, in the
    interests of promoting trade and implementing the provisions of
    international treaty agreements, your agency should consider
    international standards in procurement and regulatory applications.

    i. Should my agency give preference to performance standards?
    In using voluntary consensus standards, your agency should give
    preference to performance standards when such standards may
    reasonably be used in lieu of prescriptive standards.

    7. What Is The Policy For Federal Participation In Voluntary
    Consensus Standards Bodies?
    Agencies must consult with voluntary consensus standards bodies,
    both domestic and international, and must participate with such
    bodies in the development of voluntary consensus standards when
    consultation and participation is in the public interest and is
    compatible with their missions, authorities, priorities, and budget
    resources.

In short, the problem is not the policy but, rather, the performance, 
i.e., the lack thereof in many instances.  What's needed is not more 
policy or new "strategies" but more accountability and better 
performance.  Hopefully, the U.S. Federal Data Strategy Action Plan will 
make a meaningful contribution toward that end, at least with respect to 
grant funding 
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/part2/2020APwStyle.xml#_ea289a44-2e58-11ea-bd1a-70248cbabdf6>.

Owen


On 1/3/2020 8:02 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:
> Thank you Owen
> it will be great if we could align our work to some of these 
> objectives, please keep an eye on that (my mind being very expanded at 
> the moment)
> also, can we find alignment of our own work with these US based 
> objectives, also with more global, less US centric strategies and goals.
> I am thinking UK EU, China and rest of the world as well
> pdm
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:35 AM Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net 
> <mailto:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     The U.S. Federal Data Strategy Action Plan for this year is now
>     available in StratML format at
>     http://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#2020AP
>
>     Action
>     8:<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/part2/2020APwStyle.xml#_b19dbd82-2dd4-11ea-a6d4-d5cd0183ea00>AI
>     - Improve Data and Model Resources for AI Research and Development
>     includes direction to provide an updated inventory of technical
>     schema formats.
>
>     It will be interesting to see if this group may have value to add
>     in support of that objective.  If so, the IAC conference
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iZARdPoWeEZzld1iugl5hlaMh7aaYrJkD7SiEycXvdQ/edit>
>     in September might be a good venue in which to share it.
>
>     Owen
>