From vsmothers at jhmi.edu Thu Feb 7 13:14:29 2013 From: vsmothers at jhmi.edu (Valerie Smothers) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:14:29 +0000 Subject: [Curriculuminventory] FW: ballot reminder and negative comment Message-ID: Dear working group, This note is to provide an update on the balloting process for the Curriculum Inventory. The AAMC has cast a negative with a comment regarding the event duration element. We can easily update the specification to address the comment. That is considered a substantive change requiring a 45-day public review. During that review, we would extend the ballot period so that the Standards Committee can change their vote based on specification revisions made (so the negative could become a positive, or vice versa, or additional committee members could vote). AAMC raised this comment because schools implementing the specification expressed concerns about the use of whole hours only to express event duration. The public review affords anyone the opportunity to comment on the specification. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the balloting process or the proposed changes to the specification, please reply all so that we may discuss as a working group. There are more details in the standards committee note below. Thank you! Best regards, Valerie ------------------------ Sent to Standards Committee: So far we've received one negative vote with the following comment for the committee to consider: Many schools have events that are not accurately reflected as a whole number of hours (for example, events may be 50 minutes, 90 minutes, etc). We would prefer that the EventDuration element allow both hours and minutes. While the fix is fairly simple, changing the documentation to allow for both hours and minutes, it is a substantive change that requires a 45-day public review. We can extend the balloting process through the public review period to afford committee members the opportunity to change (or cast) their vote in light of the changes. In the meantime, there are two questions to consider. 1) Does anyone on the committee oppose changing the specification to address this comment? If so, please let us know. 2) Are there any other negative comments that we should consider before announcing another public review? My hope is that we can send documentation to ANSI Monday February 11 to initiate the public review so that the public review may begin February 22 and run through April 8. I encourage you to cast your ballot and make your opinion (and any negative comments) known as soon as possible so that we may address all concerns and achieve consensus on this important specification! Many thanks, Valerie Valerie Smothers Deputy Director MedBiquitous vsmothers at jhmi.edu +1-410-735-6142 www.medbiq.org MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2013, April 8-9 Baltimore, MD Sign up for our newsletter Follow us on Twitter! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From vsmothers at jhmi.edu Fri Feb 22 17:43:25 2013 From: vsmothers at jhmi.edu (Valerie Smothers) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:43:25 +0000 Subject: [Curriculuminventory] another comment Message-ID: Dear working group, We have received an additional negative vote in the ballot for the Curriculum Inventory specification. One Standards Committee member submitted the following comment with his ballot: The XML restriction for the IDDomainType both permits values that are invalid and does not permit all valid forms of domain names. Alternatives to fix the error include: 1) developing a proper form of the XML restriction that models the precise syntax of domain names 2) modifying the restriction to permit all valid forms (idd:\S*:\S*) and adding a description to the conformance clause that requires an internet domain name that is a valid URN authority. In addition, a member of the public brought to my attention that the link to the Vocabularies included in the document is not working. I've proposed the following resolutions to the MedBiquitous Standards Committee: a) changing the IDDomainType data type to: b) changing the specification document to read as follows: domainname is an internet domain name that is a valid URN authority (see RFC 3986) and is owned by the organization issuing the unique ID. c) changing the specification to point to the following URL for vocabularies: http://medbiq.org/curriculum/vocabularies.pdf The specification is now undergoing a second public review to vet the revised standard. The review is scheduled to end April 8, and if all goes well, we could have a standard a few weeks later. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please let me know, or reply all if you would like to initiate a group discussion. Thank you! Valerie Valerie Smothers Deputy Director MedBiquitous vsmothers at jhmi.edu +1-410-735-6142 www.medbiq.org MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2013, April 8-9 Baltimore, MD Sign up for our newsletter Follow us on Twitter! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: