------------------------------------------------------- OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes Tuesday, 26 May 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein. 1. ROLL CALL Present: Robert Anderson, Jim Earley, Paul Grosso, Elliot Kimber, Bruce Nevin, Dana Spradley, Su-Laine Yeo, Kris Eberlein, JoAnn Hackos, Gershon Joseph, Michael Priestley, Don Day, Steffen Fredericksen, Anne Rockley, Mark Poston, Seth Park, Nancy Harrison Quorum is present. 2. APPROVE MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00030.html Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Bruce Nevin; motion carried by acclamation. 3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS Anne Rockley reported on the work of the Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee. Still investigating aggregated editing; some vendors have demonstrated how their products support aggregated editing. Other work efforts include a paper about types of business documents and an investigation of the effectiveness of out-of-the box metadata for the business community. 4. ITEM: processing-role attribute * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00018.html (Anderson) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00021.html (Joseph) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00022.html (Grosso) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00024.html (Ogden) Robert summarized the open question: "Can the processing-role attribute cascade from map to map"? Suggested that we state that this is something not defined and processors can choose to handle it as they wish. Michael Priestley provided a use case. A user has a single map that defines both a TOC and keys, and another user wants to pull in some the keys but not the navigation; in this situation, the second user would want to declare that the map is resource-only. Paul Gross asked that Michael send e-mail outlining this use case. Gershon also commented that he had requested use cases for items 4 and 5 in Robert's original e-mail. Action (26 May 2009): --------------------- Michael Priestley to send e-mail about use case in which processing-role should cascade from map to map. 5. New ITEM: Proposal to initiate the formation of an OASIS DITA PharmaceuticalContent Subcommittee (DITA-PC-SC) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00032.html (Frederiksen) Steffen Fredericksen provided background about the rationale for starting the new subcommittee. Pharmaceutical companies are struggling with multiple government regulatory standards being imposed. Information has to be delivered in various formats, including SPL structured product labeling format, Product Information Management (PIM) for the European Union, ECDD for FDA approval and more. All of these standards are rendition standards, but none suited to be a common, backbone standard for storing, editing, and working with the data. Quality of documentation is absolutely essential for the industry. The timing is essential; there is lots of work currently being done on common standards, thus the right time to introduce DITA. As of 25 May, he has mailed (to OASIS) a list of 27 people from pharmaceutical companies who have given an initial yes to particpation; 11 other people are considering participating. Has the beginning of a charter, but wants the newly-formed SC to work on the charter Don Day clarifies that a completed charter is necessary to initiate the SC, but the SC can then flex it out more completely. Items required are a name, statement of purpose, list of deliverables, and name of chair. Steffen stated that they will have two co-chairs, himself and James Averback Nancy Harrison asked whether the information that the pharmaceutical companies generates contains the results of clinical trials, and then commented that there is an overlap with medical records. Steffen stated that the subcommittee would begin with the core area of submissions. Don Day suggested that the subcommittee add a roadmap to their work items. Steffen Fredericksen proposed that the TC approves the creation of the subcommittee; seconded by Anne Rockley; approved by acclamation Action (26 May 2009): --------------------- Don to send Mary McRae a link to today's minutes when published, which will initiate the process of setting up Wiki 6. New ITEM: Meaningful Values for type= on xref and topicref http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00033.html Elliot summarized the main point: Whether values for the type attribute should be qualified with the module name. Need to qualify common type name especially on an xref or another other place where type would be used to reference an element that is not a topic. Discussion on whether this should be required or just recommended for non-standard types. Action (26 May 2009) ----------------------- Elliot to write a statement about meaningful values for type on and . Keep open for next week. 7. New ITEM: Section div in LI? * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200905/msg00038.html (Kimber and following thread) * http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25904/12021.html (original proposal, thanks Robert) Continue this to next week, to enable people time to read the e-mails. 8. ITEM: REVIEW MASTER TOPIC LIST--Gershon Decision about deadline: 3 weeks from today for completed first drafts (16 June 2009) Action (26 May 2009): --------------------- Kris Eberlein to notify authors about the 16 June 2009 deadline Meeting adjourned.