[Standards] request for support for LMF-6-themed workshop application by F. Frontini

[Piotr Banski]

Dear all,

You may recall from our last teleconference that Francesca Frontini is 
the project leader of the nascent ISO LMF-6 ("Lexicon Markup Framework - 
Syntax and Semantics") and that Francesca is preparing an application 
for a workshop meant to, firstly, communicate the assumptions and the 
state of work on the LMF-6 proposal to the CLARIN community, and, 
secondly, gather feedback from our community on the actual use cases, 
problems, application areas, etc., in order for the standardization 
procedure to proceed according to the rules of the trade, namely by 
building on the best practices in the field, with CLARIN being given, as 
it were, the front seat in this case.

The initial plans are still to hold the workshop following this year's 
CAC (with various obvious questions raised, given the current situation, 
but one has to assume a measure of stability and hope for the 
next-to-best), and Francesca plans on distributing the standard proposal 
(or more precisely new-work-item proposal) well in advance, so that the 
interested researchers can do their homework before the meeting and 
present their results there, in a kind of hands-on session.

I have participated in the work of ISO Technical Committee 37 
Subcommittee 4 (TC37SC4) Working Group 4, where, in January, Francesca 
presented her initial take on the LMF-6 proposal, and where the group 
tasked Francesca with preparing the workshop (and me with paving the way 
to the CLARIN Governance/Office). I have also seen the workshop 
application that Francesca is about to submit to CLARIN ERIC. I am 
confident that the workshop can be an event fruitful both for the ISO 
initiative and for CLARIN.

I would like to ask the committee for support for this initiative, so 
that Francesca can cite that in the project proposal. More precisely, *I 
would like to ask for implied support, i.e., for Francesca to be able to 
mention that the CSC supports the idea of organising the workshop, if 
there are no vetoes posted to this list today or tomorrow*.

Let me stress that there is no risk of any kind involved here to the 
CSC: a member wishes to organize an event under the liaison between ISO 
TC37SC4 and CLARIN to involve the CLARIN community in the ISO process. 
Participation in TC37SC4 is one of the intended activities of CLARIN, as 
evidenced by the recent signing of the liaison, which gives CLARIN 
members the right to view the standards processed by TC37SC4 and opens 
the path of influence on the developing/reassessed standards. It is also 
in our interest as the CSC to be visible in standardization initiatives, 
especially if they involve a CSC member and a standards body that our 
committee helped to forge a liaison with.

I am sure that Francesca will make the LMF-6 proposal available to us 
when it is in a shareable shape. But I am also convinced that the above 
paragraph summarizes the reasons for the CSC to be sympathetic to the 
initiative already at this stage.

With advance thanks for your support and best regards,

   Piotr


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