Agenda
XML Working Group
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

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Location: Room 5141-B, GSA headquarters, 18th & F Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.  (The closest Metro station is Farragut West on the blue and orange lines.)  If the presentations are available, they are posted prior to each meeting for the benefit of our teleconferencers, at http://xml.gov/presentations.asp  Teleconferencing instructions are provided below.

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9:00	Co-Chairs & Participants Introductions, Announcements & Approval of Minutes
9:15	Taxonomies, Schemas, Personalization, Metadata & FirstGov Betty Harvey, ECC, Inc. & Tony Byrne, CMS Watch See complementary agendas of the KM WG (March 31) & WSWG (April 15)
10:15	Break
10:30	ASC X12 & Content Inspired Component Architecture (CICA) Theresa Yee, LMI
11:30	Task Progress Reports & Discussion Task Team Leaders & Participants Namespace Management Policy, Marion Royal, Co-Chair, xmlWG Graphics & Section 508, David Heiser, IRS
Noon	Adjourn

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XML Working Group Home & Agendas

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Related potential future presentation topics include:

• Taxonomies (XML Schemas) for Classification of E-records -- Such as:
  
  
• Required by eGov Act Subsections 207 (d) & (f) & 305(c)
• Required to Specify Citizen-Centricity
  
• FEA Business & Data Reference Models (BRM) & (DRM)
• First.gov
  
• U.S. Blue Pages
  
• UK Government Category List (GCL)
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
• Federal Register Thesaurus
• World Bank Thesaurus
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Library of Congress Thesauri
  
• MARC in XML
  
• DoD Std. 5015.2 Metadata Elements
• GILS Topic Tree
• Illinois Subject Tree (Jessica Tree)
  
• Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI)
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• Others?  Please convey suggestions to Owen_Ambur@fws.gov

                See also the Genesis of the XML Working Group.

• Role of the XML Registry in Supporting the Use of Such Taxonomies in E-records ("Content") Management Systems

If you are interested and qualified to make a presentation on any of these topics, please contact Owen_Ambur@fws.gov

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Teleconferencing  Instructions:

    USA Toll Free Number: 888-405-5987
    USA Toll Number: +1-712-257-7893
    PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: 139312

If you have any questions, please call Jim Hunt at 202-501-6901