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

[Francesca Frontini]

Dear all,
thanks for the endorsement. I hope you and your loved ones are all doing
well under the circumstances.
Hope to see you soon when all this is over.
Francesca

On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 00:34, Piotr Banski <banski at ids-mannheim.de> wrote:

> 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,
> R5 6-13
> 68-161 Mannheim, Germany
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