Removing Communication Barriers: International Content Standards at LISA & OASIS
Dr. Arle Lommel, LISA [email protected] Bryce Clark, OASIS [email protected]
February 10, 2011
● OASIS is a member-led, international non-profit standards consortium for global e-business & the information economy
● Over 650 members● Over 70 technical
committees producing royalty-free and RAND standards
“The largest standards group for electronic commerce on the Web.”
Best-known works include: OpenDocument Format, CMIS and DITA (documents); SAML, XACML, KMIP, IMI, ID-Cloud and WS-Security (identity & security); BPEL, UDDI, WS-RM and the SOA Reference Model (SOA & web services);CAP, UBL & ebXML (e-government)
OASIS interoperates with the world Cooperation, liaison and harmonization with other standards
organizations is a first-class OASIS priority Formal working relationships with:
ISO, IEC, ITU, UN-ECE MoU for E-Business ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34, SC38; ISO TCs 154, 215, ITU-T SG 17 IPTC, OECD, SWIFT, UPU, World Bank Asia PKI, Changfeng (Beijing), CESI, EA-ECA, Korean NIA,
CEN/ISSS, European ICTSB, ETSI, PSLX, Standards-AU ABA, ACORD, AIAG, CalConnect, HL7, MBAA, NAESB, LRC,
InfoCard/OpenID, Kantara/Liberty, LISA, OAGi, OGC, OMA, OMG, RosettaNet/UCC, W3C, WS-I
What is a “StandardStandard”?
Publicly available Stable, persistent versions Published rules Open process (public comments, archives,
no NDAs) Explicit, disclosed, finite IPR terms
Anything else is proprietary: this is a regulatory policy distinction, not a pejorative.
Anything on which a few vendors agree? Well, no. An open standard is:
How open standards cause interoperability & convergence Standards are modular
Users and developers test whether the method can be used in conjunction with other specifications
Modular methods can be phased into legacy architectures
Modular methods are less vulnerable to vendor lock-in
No-one uses just ONE standard
OASIS DocBook
Structured document authoring using XML or SGML, starting with software and hardware technical documentation use cases.
From Markup to publishing-specific functionality • inline graphics• title and subtitle handling• bibliographies, defined terms, lists and cross
references• delimiters for blocks of texts, subjects, ancillary
matter
Since 1998; latest: v5.0 (2009)Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbookSpec: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#docbook
OASIS DITA
XML schemas for modular, topic-based information presentation. Extensible by specialization, where new, supplemental semantic structures, document types and data types can be added for specific topics. Current DITA vocabulary specializations include learning & training content, pharmaceutical content, web content, semiconductor design content, and translation content. Documents atomize semantically, into topics and maps, associated with metadata, vocabularies and other re-useable bytes; renditions of the material may vary widely from use to use and processor to processor.
Darwin Information Typing ArchitectureSince 2004; Latest = v5.0 (2009)Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ditaSpecification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#ditav1.2
OASIS CMIS
CMIS provides a data exchange model, abstract capabilities set and set of data bindings for Content Management repositories/systems, to work with each other and outside applications, to support aggregate content use that leverages current repositories. Chief use cases include portals and mashups that consume content from multiple systems; searches across repositories for re-use, records management and audit purposes; and subscription & notification services.
Content Management Interoperability Services Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2010)Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cmisSpecification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#cmisv1.0
OASIS XLIFF
XLIFF is a set of XML vocabularies for standardized interchange of localisable software, document-based objects and related metadata between localization tools..
XML Localisation Interchange File FormatSince 2001; Latest = v1.2 (2008)Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliffSpecification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#xliffv1.2
OASIS OAXAL
The Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization Reference Model provides for an integrated document creation and localization environment, including planned support for W3C ITS, LISA OSCAR xml:tm, LISA GMX, LISA TMX, Unicode TR29, OASIS XLIFF, and various open standard XML Vocabularies such as DITA, Docbook, XHTML, SVG and ODF.
Open Architecture for XML Authoring & Localization Ref. Model Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2009)Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oaxalSpecification: http://www.oasis-
open.org/committees/download.php/35736/OASIS%20Open%20Architecture%20for%20XML%20Authoring%20and%20Localization%20Reference%20Model%20%28OAXAL%29.pdf
What should stakeholders do? Bring your use cases to the
standards table Be prepared to compromise If you can participate as an active
contributor, do so If you don’t have the bandwidth to
contribute actively, be a good observer
Understand the ground rules Expect conformance Be a good citizen
Questions?
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