Publishing committee meeting Wednesday 14 February 2001
Meeting convened at 1100 USEST.
Chair: Paul Biron (acting for Helen Stevens)
Present: Mike Henderson (scribe), Paul Biron, Sandy Boyer, Woody Beeler
Agenda:
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Status reports from 31 January meeting
Content reporting
Balloting issues – how submit comments
Status reports:
Sandy spoke with Nancy Orvis a few days ago. Nancy and Norman Daoust
are looking at the structure of the vocab document. Nancy sent Helen and
Woody a doc, “Improvement of HL7 V3 Vocab reports.” Sandy and Nancy
have discussed desiderata e.g. linking tables to RIM attributes
Woody hasn’t gotten to ballot review. Question, how to distinguish what’s
not being voted on from what is being voted on. Woody doesn’t believe
there’s a problem but hasn’t examined bylaws. May be outside our domain.
Project plan: Digital signature is being worked on by CQ for XML ITS ballot.
Also, Larry, Mark T and Mike are working on Query items.
Woody has gotten the Editors’ group to agree to update Chapter 9 of the
MDF.
Content storage discussion:
o Woody and Paul are talking about how to integrate narrative XML into the
Access database/repository. Paul doesn’t foresee any real problems.
Sticking point: XML BLOBs have to be put into Access fields of type
Memo, which may have size restrictions (but those apply only to the
Access user interface; extra-Access access shouldn’t be a problem).
Prototype should be ready within 2 weeks.
o Data types: Representation of data types in Access database doesn’t
include all information, e.g. explicit representation of inheritance of
properties, or implicit type of string when treated as restriction of ED.
Woody’s looking into how much of this needs to be represented in the
database, and how to represent it.
Timeline status discussion:
o Material for first ballot round will be closed Friday after Labor Day (7
September), so must be out by Monday 6 August. Committees must have
material in right after the Fourth of July holiday. Documents requiring
conversion should get in ASAP. Already written material should be
submitted by the end of the Minneapolis meeting in May: abstract data
types and datatypes ITS.
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o Woody reported strategy and calendar to the board on Monday, and
they’re comfortable. Need to reassure Helen that we’re keeping the
schedule in line.
o Timeline between ballot closing and meeting starting is large. We expect
many questions and comments and are leaving time to digest these before
reconciliation begins in earnest at the F2F meeting in Salt Lake City.
Woody suggests a triage committee that would include members of each
of the submitting committees.
HMD:
o Paul hasn’t gotten a lot more work done on DTD/stylesheets. Charlie’s
made some progress on the XML representation. Was to be on today’s
call; Paul will contact. Issue had been that size of the HMD’s was
unwieldy. Access is smart enough to repeat table header and footer rows
on overflow pages. Horizontal structure still a problem. Charlie looking
for a reasonable subset of the HMD columns so that we could publish
HMD as 2 or 3 tables. Woody will help.
Content reporting/publishing:
Paul: We built table of normative/informative/other documents in Orlando.
No progress since then. Woody: In the end, we need to include this as part of
the opening day agenda in Indianapolis [RIM harmonization meeting in
March]. Discussion can continue between Indianapolis and Minneapolis.
Indy meeting will need a briefing, schedule, action items for creation of new
material (e.g. chapter leadin material, storyboards), provision of templates,
and solicitation of volunteers committee. Helen’s working on this but we can
provide input. Woody is in charge of the Indy agenda. Need to have
materials ready by then!
Comment submission in balloting process:
Paul: Automatic comment submission ideas are out there, but we may not
have time to implement them. We need to be sure that people can submit very
detailed comments, including content substitution.
Meeting concluded at 1145 USEST.