[MG] XSDs for Questions, Answers, and/or Proposals?

[John Borras]

Hi All

 

I'm not sure if it's relevant to this discussion but our OASIS EML (Election
Mark-up Language) handles Referendums and Voting.   The Referendums bit
allows for proposals to be made and then formal voting to take place based
on the approved questions.  Let me know if you think this might serve your
needs.

 

Regards

John Borras

 

Chair OASIS E&VS Technical Committee

 

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Skype:  gov3john

 

From: Owen Ambur [mailto:Owen.Ambur at verizon.net] 
Sent: 02 January 2011 17:58
To: 'Metagovernment Project'; 'Thomas von der Elbe'
Cc: 'Andre Cusson'; 'Arthur Colman'; johnaborras at yahoo.co.uk;
sylvia.webb at vision4standards.com; Jane Harnad
Subject: XSDs for Questions, Answers, and/or Proposals?

 

Thomas, anytime anyone would like to collaborate toward the establishment of
XML vocabularies and schemas for posting questions, answers, and/or
proposals on the Web, I'll be more than happy to participate.  

 

Such standards could and preferably should be quite simple, at least
initially.  

 

Tools, applications, and services leveraging such data standards could and
should be as complex as anyone is willing and able to make them to support
the interests of any particular group of stakeholders.

 

In the meantime, a standard (ANSI/AIIM 21:2009) is already available for
documenting missions, visions, values, goals and objectives.  It is simply a
matter of using it and section 10 of H.R. 2142
<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2142>  provides a
big boost in that regard with respect to the strategic and performance plans
of U.S. federal agencies.  

 

The <Identifier
<http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#Identifier> > element of
StratML could be reused to enable explicit referencing of <Question>s,
<Answer>s, and <Proposal>s as well and it might also be appropriate to reuse
the <Submitter <http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#Submitter>
> and <PublicationDate
<http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#PublicationDate> >
elements.

 

StratML's <Name <http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#Name> >,
<Description <http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#Description>
>, and <OtherInformation
<http://xml.gov/stratml/draft/StratMLGlossary.xml#OtherInformation> >
elements are generic and widely applicable in many other contexts,
potentially including the documentation of questions, answers, and
proposals.

 

Owen  

 

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On 02/gen/2011, at 10:55, Thomas von der Elbe <ThomasvonderElbe at gmx.de>
wrote:

 

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With great joy of Owen, I think we really should come out with an XML
standard with which questions should be posed around the world.

 

Also another would be an XML standard for proposals, and a third one for
votes. Of course the proposals one should have a field refering to the
question(s) it is trying to answer. And should offer a code for the voters.
And so on.

 

The xml should support as much as possible decentralization of information
(example, tags refering to a questionmust be tag sets, but anyone can write
them. So the result is a tagcloud).

 

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