OAGi News for January 2013

Hi and welcome to our January 2013 newsletter. This is our monthly newsletter for the OAGi community and we want to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

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OAGi member Spotlight

For the next few months, we will be highlighting our recent Outstanding Contributor Award winners that were announced at our November Plenary Session sponsored by Oracle.  This month we will be highlighting Garrett Minakawa from Oracle.

Garret Minakawa

 




Garret has been contributing to OAGi since the year 2000 and has served in many capacities over the years.  His accomplishments include:

·  2000-Present      Service on the Policy Board

·  2003-2007 Served as the OAGi Vice-Chair, Finance

·   2008-2011 Served as the Chair of the OAGi Policy Board

·   2011-Now           Service as the Immediate Past Chair of the OAGi Policy Board

·   2000-2011 OAGi Liaison to UN/CEFACT

·   2003-2005 Served on the OAGIS 9 Architecture Committee

·   Contributed to the OAGIS 9.X NDR

·   Proved invaluable to OAGi adoption of UN/CEFACT Core Components

·   Liaison to ISO TC154

·   Liaison to OASIS TC UBL

Please join me in thanking Garret for his many contributions to the efforts of the Open Applications Group.

Dates Chosen for our Spring 2013 Plenary Meeting

Our 2013 Spring Plenary Meeting will be Thursday, May 2 and will once again be sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

We are planning for the OAGi Policy Board to meet the afternoon on Wednesday, May 1 and then we will have a half day of Working Group Face to Face sessions on Friday, May 3.

Further details will be forthcoming so we encourage you to watch for the announcement.

Mobile, Cloud, JSON Initiative kicks off the new year with a Guest Speaker

One of the speakers at the API Meetup we attended while at our Plenary Meeting in San Francisco was kind enough to come present to the entire Working Group on January 3^rd of this year. 

His name is Tyler Singletary from Klout and he shared his experiences managing mobile API’s for his company.  We thank Tyler again for his contributions.

The Working Group has resumed working on their own JSON API Guide for OAGIS and they are making good progress.  We are seeing that the Mobile API Design may end up differing some from the Cloud JSON API but that is not yet final.

If you are interested in joining the Working Group please write to us at inquiry@oagi.org.

OAGIS Release 10 Public Review Two is coming soon.

The second Public Review of OAGIS Release 10 is coming soon.  Watch for the announcement.

Public Review Two will contain the Chemical Industry content from our Gap Analysis with the Chem eStandards.  That was part of our agreement with CIDX when they merged with OAGi in 2009.  Public Review Two is also planned to contain the HR-XML harmonization work that Steffen Fohn of ADP has been working on as well as some manufacturing enhancements.

The Working Groups continue to meet to wrap up the technical work and we are planning a Webinar that will brief participants on the features of OAGIS Release 10.

We encourage your participation in this exciting and important work.  All OAGi members are invited to join and if you are interested please contact us here.  We need all the smart people we can get.

New Manufacturing Opportunities with NIST  

Nenad Ivezic and Serm Kulvatunyou of NIST, both also longtime contributors to OAGi, presented interesting new Manufacturing proposals at our Plenary Meeting on November 29, 2012.

The first one is entitled “Sustainability Characterization of Manufacturing Supply Chains “.  The goals of this project include developing the necessary models, methods and tools to assess and optimize total energy and material usage, and to enable OEMs to aggregate the energy and material sustainability contributions from their own manufacturing and assembly processes with those from their supply chains.

The second proposal from NIST for an OAGi activity is entitled, “Advancing Communication of Manufacturing Information”.  The goal of this activity is to increase the productivity of U.S. small manufacturers by enabling digital communication of manufacturing information for production and data processing through development of reference models and systematic, verifiable modeling methodology that will enable new standards for manufacturing supply chain integration.

You can download their proposals on our website here. 

We welcome your feedback and look forward to your participation.

Meeting Calendar for 2013

Our planned calendar for 2013 is below.  Stay tuned for the specific date and time announcements.  We are also planning a series of webinars covering topics on Chemical Industry B2B, OAGIS Release 10, and Mobile and Cloud efforts.

Policy Board Meeting	Wednesday, May 1, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups	Thursday and Friday, May 2 -3, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland

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Policy Board Meeting	November, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups	November, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA