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: - 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. - 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.