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XML Daily Newslink. Monday, 02 June 2008
A Cover Pages Publication http://xml.coverpages.org/
Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org
Edited by Robin Cover

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This issue of XML Daily Newslink is sponsored by
IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
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HEADLINES:

* WSRP 2.0 Advances to OASIS Standard
* W3C Launches Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group
* DMTF Releases WS-CIM Mapping Specification as a Final Standard
* LETSI Issues Call for SCORM 2.0 White Papers
* OAI Announces Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) Beta Release
* IETF Internet Draft: NETCONF Event Notifications
* OASIS Announces Discussion List for New ODF Implementation,
Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) Technical Committee

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WSRP 2.0 Advances to OASIS Standard
Staff, OASIS Announcement

Members of the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Technical
Committee have produced "Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification
Version 2.0," now approved as an OASIS Standard. Integration of remote
content and application logic into an End-User presentation has been a
task requiring significant custom programming effort. Typically, vendors
of aggregating applications, such as a portal, write special adapters
for applications and content providers to accommodate the variety of
different interfaces and protocols those providers use. The goal of
this specification is to enable an application designer or administrator
to pick from a rich choice of compliant remote content and application
providers, and integrate them with just a few mouse clicks and no
programming effort. This revision of the specification adds Consumer
managed coordination, additional lifecycle management and a set of related
aggregation enhancements. This standard layers on top of the existing
web services stack, utilizing existing web services standards and will
leverage emerging web service standards (such as policy) as they become
available. The interfaces defined by this specification use the Web
Services Description Language (WSDL). Since its approval in 2003, version
1.0 of WSRP has been widely used for promulgating information services
(in the form of elemental building blocks of displayed information), and
consuming and assembling them heterogeneously in portals and other re-uses.
Successful use of WSRP 2.0 was verified by OASIS Foundational Sponsor,
IBM, and by Sponsors, Oracle and Vignette, in accordance with eligibility
requirements for all OASIS Standards.

http://xml.coverpages.org/WSRPv20-Standard.html
See also the specification: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-os-01.html

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W3C Launches Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group
Staff, W3C Announcement

W3C has launched a "Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest
Group" to study the issues that rural communities and underprivileged
populations face in accessing information and communication technology.
The MW4D Interest Group provides an multidisciplinary forum for
discussing these issues, and in doing so, contributes to the W3C mission
of making the Web available to all. According to the GSMA and ITU, at
the end of 2007, more than 3 billion people had access to a mobile
phone and 80% of the global population was covered by a GSM network.
These figures make a strong case for using mobile phones as the platform
for health, education, business, and government services in rural
environments. However, there remain significant challenges to providing
access to these communities and in leveraging local content and application
development. The new MW4D Interest Group will study these challenges,
identify the most promising ways to address them, and propose a road
map for progress. In order to succeed, the MW4D Interest Group requires
expertise in diverse fields, and thus invites participation from people
and organizations who are experts in mobiles technologies, Web technologies,
usability, sustainability and entrepreneurship. W3C seeks participation
in particular from NGOs with field experience and expertise, and academics
from developing regions in order to capture, in a bottom-up approach,
the needs and requirements of the targeted population. W3C launches this
new group under the auspices of the European Union's 7th Research
Framework Programme (FP7), part of the Digital World Forum project.
This work is part of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, which aims to identify
and resolve challenges and issues of accessing the Web when on the move.

http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080602
See also the press release: http://www.w3.org/2008/05/mw4dig-pressrelease

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DMTF Releases WS-CIM Mapping Specification as a Final Standard
Staff, Distributed Management Task Force Announcement

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has announced the release
of four specifications as Final Standards, including the "WS-CIM Mapping
Specification" (DSP0230). The WS-CIM Mapping Specification (DSP0230) was
prepared by the DMTF WBEM Infrastructure and Protocols Working Group.
The goal of the specification is to produce a normative description of
a protocol-independent mapping of CIM models to XML Schema, WSDL fragments,
and metadata fragments. Another goal of the specification is to allow the
most expedient use of current Web Services (WS) infrastructure as a
foundation for implementing a WS-CIM compliant system. Management based
on the Common Information Model in a Web Services environment requires
that the CIM Schema (classes, properties, and methods) be rendered in
XML Schema and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). To achieve this,
CIM must be mapped to WSDL and XML Schema through an explicit algorithm
that can be programmed for automatic translation. This specification
provides the normative rules and recommendations that describe the
structure of the XML Schema, WSDL fragments, and metadata fragments that
correspond to the elements of CIM models, and the representation of CIM
instances as XML instance documents. A conformant implementation of a
CIM model to XML Schema, WSDL fragments, and metadata fragments
transformation algorithm must yield an XML Schema, WSDL fragments, and
metadata fragments as described in this specification. These CIM models
may be expressed in CIM Managed Object Format (MOF) or in other
equivalent ways. Throughout this specification, examples illustrate the
mapping from CIM MOF.

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0230_1.0.0.pdf
See also the newsletter article: http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/newsletter/2008/06/newsroom/newsletter/2008/06/page3#2

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LETSI Issues Call for SCORM 2.0 White Papers
Staff, Learning-Education-Training Systems Interoperability Announcement

LETSI (Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability), the
international, nonprofit federation dedicated to improving individual
and organizational learning, has taken on the task of developing the
next generation of SCORM, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model.
As part of this initiative, LETSI is soliciting White Papers from all
stakeholders interested in shaping the future direction of SCORM and
the implementation of learning systems technology. Stakeholders in all
parts of the education and training world are invited to submit White
Papers concerning the technical and pedagogical requirements for future
learning systems interoperability. The deadline for submission is August
15, 2008. The open solicitation was announced May 28, 2008 at the SCORM
Technical Working Group meeting, hosted by the Advanced Distributed
Learning Initiative in Alexandria, VA, USA. The development of the next
SCORM, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model, has been tasked to
LETSI, a new international federation for Learning-Education-Training
Systems Interoperability. LETSI's goal is to advance innovation and
adoption of learning technology across all market sectors and to support
the use of open software standards in learning technology... SCORM 2.0
will include specifications and standards created and managed using open,
transparent processes that are not encumbered by patents, licenses or
restrictions that would impinge on its availability to the global LET
community. LETSI will create an open source software community to support
SCORM adopters and product developers. LETSI itself does not develop
the component standards that go into SCORM. SCORM 2.0 will have a
modular, extensible architecture that will allow specific communities
of practice to adapt and extend the model with functionality and
innovations that are important for their particular situation (e.g.,
a new medical simulation standard or aviation-industry specific metadata).
LETSI will play the leadership role in publicizing such extensions and
will consider them for future inclusion in SCORM.

http://xml.coverpages.org/LETSI-SCORMv20-WhitePapers.html
See also the invitation: http://xml.coverpages.org/LETSI-SCORMv20-CFP.pdf

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OAI Announces Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) Beta Release
Staff, Open Archives Initiative Announcement

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) recently announced the publication
of nine (9) Specification Documents and User Guide Documents relating
to the OAI ORE Model. The ORE Model makes it possible to associate
identities with aggregations of web resources and to describe their
structure and semantics. It does this by introducing the Resource Map
(ReM), which is a network accessible resource that encapsulates a set
of RDF statements. These statements describe an Aggregation as a
resource with a URI, enumerate the constituents of the Aggregation,
and the relationships among those constituents. Over the past eighteen
months the OAI, in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE),
has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library,
and eScience community to develop standards for the identification and
description of aggregations of online information resources. These
aggregations, sometimes called compound digital objects, may combine
distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images,
data, and video. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich
content in these aggregations to applications that support authoring,
deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. Although a
motivating use case for the work is the changing nature of scholarship
and scholarly communication, and the need for cyberinfrastructure to
support that scholarship, the intent of the effort is to develop
standards that generalize across all web-based information including
the increasing popular social networks of 'web 2.0'. The new documents
describe a data model to introduce aggregations as resources with URIs
on the web. They also detail the machine-readable descriptions of
aggregations expressed in the popular Atom syndication format, in
RDF/XML, and RDFa... OAI-ORE and Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH) are separate standards; OAI-ORE does neither extends nor
replaces OAI-PMH. OAI-PMH is a protocol and an XML message format for
the exchange of XML records (typically metadata). It supports selective
or incremental harvesting which allows a client repository to maintain
an up-to-date copy of records in all or part of a source repository.

http://xml.coverpages.org/OAI-ORE-Beta.html
See also Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH): http://xml.coverpages.org/oams.html

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IETF Internet Draft: NETCONF Event Notifications
Sharon Chisholm and Hector Trevino (eds), IETF Internet Draft

Members of the IETF Network Configuration (NETCONF) Working Group have
published at updated Internet Draft for the "NETCONF Event Notifications"
specification. The NETCONF WG was chartered to produce a protocol
suitable for network configuration, using XML for data encoding purposes.
The "NETCONF Event Notifications" document defines mechanisms that
provide an asynchronous message notification delivery service for the
NETCONF protocol. Specifically, it defines a mechanism whereby the
NETCONF client indicates interest in receiving event notifications from
a NETCONF server by creating a subscription to receive event notifications.
The NETCONF server replies to indicate whether the subscription request
was successful and, if it was successful, begins sending the event
notifications to the NETCONF client as the events occur within the
system. These event notifications will continue to be sent until either
the NETCONF session is terminated or the subscription terminates for some
other reason. The event notification subscription allows a number of
options to enable the NETCONF client to specify which events are of
interest. These are specified when the subscription is created. Note
that a subscription cannot be modified once created. Section 4 provides
the XML Schema for Event Notifications.

http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-ietf-netconf-notification-13.txt
See also the IETF Network Configuration (NETCONF) Working Group: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/netconf-charter.html

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OASIS Announces Discussion List for New ODF Implementation,
Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) Technical Committee
Staff, OASIS Announcement

OASIS anounced that members have requested the creation of a new
discussion list to support a possible new OASIS Technical Committee:
"ODF Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC)."
Proposers include representatives from Ars Aperta, IBM, and Novell;
Rob Weir of IBM is designated as the discussion leader. According to
the text of the proposal, the new TC would provide a means for software
implementors and service providers to create applications which adhere
to the ODF specification and are able to interoperate. As such, the
purpose of the IIC TC includes: (1) Publication of test suites of ODF
for applications of ODF to check their conformance with the Standard and
to confirm their interoperability; (2) Providing feedback, where
necessary, to the ODF TC on ways in which the standard could improve
interoperability; (3) Production of a set of implementation guidelines;
(4) Defining interoperability with related standards by the creation of
profiles or technical reports; (5) Coordination of OASIS Interoperability
demos related to ODF, in conjunction with the ODF Adoption TC. The ODF
IIC TC may also liaise with other standard bodies whose work is leveraged
in present or future ODF specifications. These include, but are not
limited to, the W3C and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34. The discussion list is
governed by Section 2.1 of the OASIS TC Process, and may last up to 90
days. Typically, participants in the list will determine whether there
is sufficient interest to form an OASIS TC, and then collaborate on a
draft TC charter for submission.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00003.html
See also OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) Adoption TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odf-adoption/

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