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

[Piotr Banski]

Dear all,

This is to say thanks for your immediate and positive response!

All the best,

    Piotr

On 20/03/2020 10:13, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
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