- From: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:55:51 -0400
- To: "'Steven Clift'" <clift@e-democracy.org>, "'eGovIG IG'" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: <JohnPaul.Deley@eia.doe.gov>, "'Schwartz, Adam J.'" <aschwartz@gpo.gov>, "'Betsy Fanning'" <bfanning@aiim.org>, "'Jane Harnad'" <jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>, "Arthur Colman" <colman@drybridge.com>, "Sylvia Webb" <sylvia.webb@vision4standards.com>, "'Metagovernment Startup Committee'" <start@metagovernment.org>
Steven, I don't know how much time I might be able to devote to it, but since I have long believed there should be a standard XML schema (XSD) for posting meeting notices on the Web, I'd have a hard time not participating in any reasonable effort to specify such a standard. While the initial iteration of the standard should be as simple and easy to implement as possible, it would be good to consider enabling referencing of the <Identifiers> for goals and objectives documented on the Web in conformance with AIIM's emerging Strategy Markup Language (StratML) standard. See http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm & http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#Identifier Since meetings are (or at least should be) conducted to support accomplishment of explicitly identified goals and objectives, it would be good if meeting notices and agendas could reference those goals and objectives -- which should themselves be documented in standard, readily referenceable XML format on the Web (e.g., StratML). Needless to say, that is an objective to which I will be more than happy to contribute to the best of my ability. BTW, as you may recall, E-Democracy.org's plan is in the StratML collection at http://xml.gov/stratml/drybridge/index.htm#Other or, more specifically, http://xml.gov/stratml/drybridge/eDo.xml 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: public-egov-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:public-egov-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Steven Clift Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:38 PM To: eGovIG IG Subject: Public meeting agendas, minutes and XML I am putting final touches on an invited grant proposal that includes an effort to make public meeting agendas more accessible as well as encourage discussion of agenda items across the Web 2.0 world in a more structured and visible way. Folks should be able to plunk in their address and be told in one place (actually lots of places from local media sites to government sites) what meetings are coming up across ALL the local government organizations that serve them (with state and Federal options too) and be able to set-up personalized notification options. Initially, we'd start with an open specification/convening process where we'd involve a number of stakeholders and I would like to appropriately suggest we will consult with this network on standards to apply or consider. Any reason I shouldn't do that? Then, based on the specification we'd attempt to prototype it with some serious meeting notice/calendar, agenda, minutes, and links to meeting document scraping across Minneapolis and perhaps St. Paul. Ideally, a standard would emerge for governments to simply put out this data in real-time in XML so scraping is only an interim need ... although with 30,000 local governments in the U.S. and lots of crowd sourcing, the scraping will be the only way to get many small governments into the service for many years. The modest proposal we are developing is a sub-set of the broader discussion Participation 3.0 draft we have from here: http://e-democracy.org/P3 If you like this idea and would like to volunteer your expertise or technology talent, let me know! It will make it far more likely the idea will get off the ground sooner than later and not be another isolated service coming from out of the blue. E-mail me at: clift@e-democracy.org I'll let the group know if we succeed with our proposal. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Donate today: http://e-democracy.org/donate
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