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Open O&M Group re-convened last week
Members of the Open O&M (Open Operations
and Maintenance) Group re-convened last week in Raleigh, North Carolina. Open O&M is a group of several standards
groups working together to share ideas, associated technologies, and to
collaborate whenever possible.
The meeting was used to catch up on all of our
initiatives and explore ways to collaborate.
The MESA group builds a standard that uses the OAGIS Platform and we
discussed ways to make better use of the upcoming Release 10 platform.
Mimosa and MESA introduced a new specification
they are building to provide a common middleware API. The purpose of the specification is to
provide end users with a single interface regardless of the product they are
using, for example, WebSphere, BizTalk, etc.
Some of our readers may not remember that OAGi
published a common middleware API called OAMAS (Open Applications Group
Middleware API Specification) in 1997.
The OAGi Policy Board voted to discontinue that effort several years
later to focus on the content.
This new specification is planned to be
released next year. One more exciting
thing about the new specification is that is uses the OAGIS protocol (BOD,
Verb, Noun) as the format for the calls to the API. You will hear more on this moving forward so
we invite you to stay tuned.
Chem eStandards Release 5.2 Ships Monday, August 20, 2012
Release 5.2 of the Chem eStandards (i.e., Ag eStandards ) Release
5.2 public review period has completed and the Architecture Council and the
OAGi Policy Board have voted to approve the final shipment. The changes to the standard were requested by
several companies within AgGateway, who is a member of the OAGi Chemical
Industry Council and a partner of OAGi.
Jim Wilson, our Chem eStandards Chief Architect, is finishing
the packaging this week. I encourage you
to look for them next Monday on our web site here.
REMINDER – OAGi Plenary
Meeting is scheduled for November 14 - 15
We
invite you to save the dates of November 14 and 15, 2012 on your calendar for
our upcoming Plenary and Working Group meetings hosted by Oracle at their
headquarters in Redwood City, California.
The Plenary meeting will be on Wednesday, November 14 and we will have
Working Group Meetings on Thursday, November 15. The OAGi Policy Board will also meet on
Tuesday, November 13.
We
are planning two themes for the upcoming meeting. The first is our Mobile Business and Cloud
Computing initiative and the second theme is the beginning of the launch of
OAGIS Release 10, (OAGIS X). We are
planning many exciting speakers and case studies.
Look
for more announcements and information as we get nearer to the meetings.
Mobile, Cloud, JSON
Initiative continues to make progress
Our Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Working Group continues to
meet and make progress. The most recent
work has focused on using OAGIS within a REST framework, the most popular way
to code API’s in the cloud and for mobile.
The team has put together and initial document on processing and
will be build that out over time. They
have mapped the OAGIS Verbs to the REST Verbs as part of that process. The think is that they may need augmented at
some point but not right now.
The team has taken a decision that the highest form of content
will be the OAGIS Noun and the lowest could be even at the Element level.
The componentization of the OAGIS architecture really lays a strong foundation
for this new use of OAGIS.
None of this means we will be eliminating the BOD Messaging
capability, we are augmenting it with the REST capability.
Remember it is the content that is important and the more ways
we can use the content the more useful the common data model will be of users
of OAGIS.
OAGIS Release 10 work continues with plans for first Public
Review later this year
OAGIS Release Ten (OAGIS X) Working Groups continue to meet on a
regular basis and we encourage your participation. We can use all the smart people we can
get! The HR-XML mapping exercise has
been completed and the only major remaining content work to complete is the
Chem eStandards mapping and enhancements.
It is important that OAGIS X contains functional equivalence to
the Chem eStandards because this was the agreement before the CIDX merger in
2008.
All OAGi members are invited to join any of these groups. If you are interested in joining any of these
Working Groups, please contact us here.
Meeting Calendar for 2012
OAGi
has recently moved revised and republished it’s events calendar. This calendar contains all Working Group,
Council Meetings, and face to face meetings.
We welcome all OAGi
members and users to take advantage of this revised calendar. You can access our calendar here.
Policy Board Meeting – Completed
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April 24, 2012
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NIST
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Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Plenary and Working Groups - Completed
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April 25 - 26, 2012
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NIST
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Presentations are available here.
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Policy Board Meeting Planned
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November 13, 2012
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Oracle
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Redwood Shores, CA, USA
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Plenary and Working Groups Completed
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November 14 - 15, 2012
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Oracle
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Redwood Shores, CA, USA.
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European Meeting
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We are working determining these dates
and will announce them as soon as possible.
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TBD
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TBD
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