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

[Fahad Khan]

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, 18:28 Maria Gavriilidou, <maria at athenarc.gr> wrote:

> Dear Piotr,
> I also fully support it.
> Best regards,
> Maria
>
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> *From:* standards-bounces at lists.clarin.eu <
> standards-bounces at lists.clarin.eu> on behalf of Piotr Banski <
> banski at ids-mannheim.de>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:04:38 PM
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> *Subject:* [Standards] request for support for LMF-6-themed workshop
> application by F. Frontini
>
>
> 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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