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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membership here.
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 3rd 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
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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NIST
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Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Plenary and Working Groups
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Thursday and Friday, May 2 -3, 2013
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NIST
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Gaithersburg, Maryland
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a
Policy Board Meeting
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November, 2013
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Oracle
|
Redwood Shores, CA, USA
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Plenary and Working Groups
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November, 2013
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Oracle
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Redwood Shores, CA, USA
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