[esip-semanticweb] Proposed By-Law Change for Moving to Committee

[Tom Narock]

The next step in our move from Cluster to Committee is to propose by-law changes for the ESIP executive committee to review. These proposes by-law changes should short, to the point, and reflect the specific goals charged to the Committee.

Beth and I have drafted an initial version based upon existing by-law samples. We’d like to make this an agenda item for next week’s call. Please review the proposed by-laws below and let us know if you feel these reflect the goals of a Semantic Technologies Committee. Are there additional roles we are missing?

At next week’s telecon we will edit these by-laws (if necessary) and then send a final version to ESIP to be voted on.

Thanks,
Tom

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 The ESIP Federation shall include a Standing Committee for Semantic Technologies. Its roles are:

To encourage and support research and development of semantic technologies in support of Earth science data management, data discovery, data dissemination and data analysis.
To collaborate with ESIP members, working groups, clusters and standing committees to identify semantic methods and tools that support the adoption of semantic technologies within ESIP and across its member organizations.
To foster sharing and reuse of ontologies and controlled vocabularies within ESIP and its member organizations.
To provide a collaborative environment for the development of ontology-based standards and controlled vocabularies. 
To maintain a long-term agenda and roadmap for integration and evaluation of semantic projects within ESIP
To collaborate with external groups and agencies on behalf of ESIP in regards to semantic technologies and furthering the aforementioned roles
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