From the latest minutes:
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Outstanding issues:
- Do we use highly structured names (option 1) or slightly structured
names (option 2)?
- Do we use fully qualified structured names (option 1a) or abbreviated
structured names (option 1b)? How much abbreviation do we want
to allow?
- Do we use ebXML/11179-style names (option 1E) or UDEF-style names
(option 1U)?
- Do we add attributes to UBL elements that link them to the UDEF
structured UIDs?
ACTION: Everybody to discuss this on the list!
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Okay folks, have at it! I will be on vacation from tomorrow through next
Tuesday, so won't be able to participate during that time. Here are my
thoughts on the matter, as unformed as they may be:
- I think regularity is important, and can't see much "intuition-affecting"
difference between Mark's xCBL example and his modified option #1 version
(which uses 1b, by the way). So I'm in favor of option 1.
- I prefer option 1b, so that we give reusability some amount of
importance. I think we should try to come up with an algorithm (not a
heuristic), if we can, to ensure that our regularity stays regular.
- I prefer option 1E, so that we can more easily align with semantics that
we know are important to us and so that the Library Content SC can continue
to work in the effective way that they've been using so far (working off of
CC semantics). I see nothing inherently wrong in the UDEF semantic trees
(though I don't know them very well yet), but do have some questions about
the object words that are aligned with context drivers -- how would that
work against the context methodology that needs to be developed? It sounds
a bit weird to be baking context into base UBL.
- I don't, in principle, have a problem with adding UDEF UIDs to our leaf
elements. I see this as very much an adjunct, however, and it could
possibly be done at a later stage. Perhaps because I'm not entirely
familiar with the usage/processing situations envisaged for these "hub"
semantic sets, I have some doubts about how helpful it really is to link up
to a standard semantic when the internal structure of the so-marked element
can possibly be arbitrarily different from any other such element on the
planet. (Or maybe this is solved only by linking from leaf nodes?)
Eve
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