[Standards] new ISO document available

[Piotr Banski]

Dear all,

After a few rounds of correspondence with the DIN and ISO Secretariat, I 
have prepared the first of ISO TC37 SC4 standards for distribution 
within CLARIN. I have been discouraged from posting it to this or any 
other mailing list, and I have tried to take some precautions to 
guarantee that the terms of the liaison can be obeyed.

It is not clear to me how "exclusive distribution within CLARIN" can 
work or whether it's feasible at all, and since the purpose of 
distributing this very standard version is simple ("readability" issues) 
and the deadline for feedback is very close (26 July), I simply prepared 
a dedicated page in the developer wiki, which has some access 
restrictions and carries a promise that whoever accesses it may/should 
be a CLARIN researcher. If that works now, it will hopefully also work 
in the future, maybe with some tweaks.

Please consider relaying this information to those of your CLARIN 
colleagues who you think may be interested in the topic and in providing 
feedback.

The page 
https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/ISO_TC37SC4_Standards_in_preparation 
contains a link to, and a description of, a new ISO TC37 SC4 WG6 
standard in preparation: ISO/CD 24623-2:2020 Language resource 
management — Corpus query lingua franca (CQLF) — Part 2: Ontology.

This version is shared on a short notice (it came into existence only 
yesterday afternoon, freshly after the implementation of the resolutions 
of this year's ISO Conference, and it needs to be shipped out to the 
Secretariat at the end of July), so no ISO table of comments is attached 
and instead, Stefan Evert and I (the project leaders) ask for direct 
feedback on whether this version reads well and is clear enough.

We will distribute another version of this standard when it has been 
processed by the ISO Secretariat and when a DIS (Draft International 
Standard) ballot is opened for it, later this year.

In the meantime, Andreas Witt (the official ISO liaison) and I will be 
grateful for your remarks on how this sharing process can possibly be 
improved. One idea that I have for standards that are going to be 
distributed during ballots is to provide a direct link to a google doc 
containing the ISO table of comments -- CLARIN should provide feedback 
to the standardization process lest the liaison is terminated, and 
having official remarks in the official table of comments should take 
care of that.

With thanks in advance and wishing those interested in the topic a fun read,

    Piotr