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

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Sounds good to me.

Piotr Banski <banski at ids-mannheim.de> writes:

> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Standards mailing list
> Standards at lists.clarin.eu
> https://lists.clarin.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/standards