Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - Mr. James Bryce Clark - Thu 2008.03.13 (17XW)
- Invited Speaker: James Bryce Clark, JD, BSc. - Director of Standards Development, OASIS (1A9B)
- Title: "Practical lurches towards semantic interoperability: standards mash-ups in production and in development" (1ACU)
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- Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 (1AF4)
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Attendees (1A9F)
- Attended: (1A9G)
- JamieClark (1A9I)
- PeterYim (1A9J)
- AsumanDogac (1AV0)
- Yildiray Kabak (Middle East Technical University) (1AV1)
- BillMcCarthy (1BAA)
- Naicong Li (The Redlands Institute, University of Redlands) (1BAK)
- AntoinetteArsic (1BEE)
- DArmondSpeers (1B9K)
- KevinTaylor (1B9G)
- Clay Almy (Blackstone Technology) (1B9Q)
- FabianNeuhaus (1BEF)
- Annette Tingle (NASA, SAIC) (1B9U)
- BobSmith (1A9L)
- SteveRay (1BEG)
- MichelleRaymond (1BEH)
- DougHolmes (1B9I)
- DavidHarris (1AHV)
- Sally St. Amand (1BEI)
- FrankOlken (1BEJ)
- Toby Considine (oBIX; University of North Carolina) (1BEK)
- Yung S Kim (Boeing) (1AHW)
- DeborahMacPherson (1B9L)
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- Paul Villano (US Army) (1AHU)
- Peter Schad (NIH/NCI, SAIC) (1AX5)
- Ross Dahman (Huntleigh) (1AX8)
- Frank Byrum (Earl Technology Group) (1AYY)
- BrettTrusko (1B9H)
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Agenda & Proceedings (1AFX)
- Invited Speakers James Bryce Clark, JD, Bsc. - Director of Standards Development, OASIS presents his invited talk. (1AFY)
Title: Practical lurches towards semantic interoperability: standards mash-ups in production and in development (1AFZ)
- Abstract: (by JamieClark) (1AG0)
Mr. James Bryce Clark will provide a report, from the open standards domain, on some of the current battlefronts in the Knowledge Representation war to retrofit meaning into electronic artifacts. These are intended as a set of pointers and indications of some virtuous activities, but not necessarily a comprehensive dive into the projects. They include: (1ACO)
- (1AHM)
- RDF mandated by EU legislation; (1ACP)
- Beating WSDL swords into meaningful plowshares, with the Semantic Execution Environment project & others; (1ACQ)
- Really Lightweight Meaning in the Common Altering Protocol; (1ACR)
- Unique Identifier Purgatory; and (1ACS)
- Whatever Happened to Core Components? (1ACT)
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[Mr. James Bryce Clark] (1AG8)
- About the Speakers: (1AG9)
James Bryce (Jamie) Clark, Director of Standards Development for OASIS, is a senior executive for the largest international open standards consortium for e-business. He is responsible for supervising the operations of 60 global expert technical committees across a wide range of Internet topics including security, web services, e-commerce and e-government. He is a frequent speaker and invited expert on e-business, open standards and automated contracting, recently including presentations in Beijing, Brussels, Delhi, Geneva, the Hague, Helsinki, London, New York, Seoul, Santa Clara, Vancouver, Vienna and Washington D.C.; he also continues to write for legal finance journals. (1AGA)
Clark is an e-commerce and information technology attorney who served as chairman of the American Bar Association's business law subcommittee on electronic commerce (for two terms) and its first e-privacy committee. He began his practice as a financing and corporate restructuring lawyer with one of Wall Street's largest firms in New York, and shifted into work with high technology companies in the later 1990's. Prior to joining OASIS, he was vice president and general counsel of a e-commerce consultancy, and a corporate partner in a Los Angeles law firm. (1AGB)
While a practicing attorney, he was a contributor to the original ebXML project (now ISO 15000), co-editor of its business process standards in 2001, and chairman of that project's Joint Coordinating Committee. At the request of the US State Department, he also has served as US delegate to the UN's electronic commerce law panel (UNCITRAL, WG IV) since 2000. (1AGC)
Clark holds JD and BSc degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is based in Los Angeles. (1AGD)
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- ODP version - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JamesBryceClark_20080313/OASIS--Towards-Semantic-Interoperability--JamieClark_20080313.odp (1AGF)
- PDF version - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JamesBryceClark_20080313/OASIS--Towards-Semantic-Interoperability--JamieClark_20080313.pdf (1B9T)
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