Resolution to initiate a Semiconductor Subcommittee

At the May 15 DITA TC meeting with quorum, the TC passed a unanimous
resolution to form a Semiconductor Subcommittee based on the proposal
materials submitted by Bob Beims and Seth Park.

I request your help to set up the facilities for Bob and Seth to begin
their activities in this new DITA TC subcommittee. Thanks!

Minuted resolution:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200705/msg00028.html

zipped proposal materials:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200705/msg00031.html

The text of the zipped file is:

OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee Charter
Prepared by Bob Beims and Seth Park (Freescale Semiconductor)

Purpose of This Document

This document is intended to be a starting point for discussions regarding
the creation of the Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (SIDSC).
After initial discussion, the content in this document should be crafted to
be the Charter for SIDSC.

All following headings are relevant to SIDSC (not the Charter, itself).

Goals

Identify data patterns that are consistent and/or specific to the

semiconductor industry. Examples may include:

Features

Instruction sets data (may not have standard/native syntax/data

structure)

Register data

Signals data

Mechanicals data

Electrical characteristics

Timing data

Thermal characteristics

Most of these content types/structures are well-defined by other

standards, such as IP-XACT, IEC-61360, IEEE-P1685, etc.; others are

not. This committee will define how information stored in

standards-based formats will interact with DITA systems. Data stored

in other XML formats may be used in a number of ways, including (but

not limited to):

Data is referenced as “foreign” content

Data is transformed from native format to DITA

Determine which content types/patterns justify the creation of a DITA

specialization.

Create specializations.

Establish guidelines and XSLT for transforming specialized data.

Create metadata guidelines.

Provide high-level perspective of how DITA systems should interface with

RTL, Verilog, design flow tools, and other relevant tools, processes,

and standard data formats.

Consider role of SVG, TDML, MATHML and characterize how they should

interact with DITA. The recommendations of this committee should have

enough weight to re-energize ownership and development of neglected

domains.

Provide justification for standardizing semiconductor industry and

propose business benefits of participating in SIDSC.

Name: Semiconductor Information Design SC

This name does not limit the scope of our findings and relevance to
specializations.

Deliverables

All files required to successfully implement all specialized topic types

(which will be defined at a later time), including:

Schema, MOD files, XSLT

Supporting online documentation (created in DITA) and hosted on

Oasis web site

Recommendations for the “role of DITA” in semiconductor information

design.

Leadership

Chair: Bob Beims

Secretary: TBD

Initial Membership

Freescale

Seth Park, Information Developer

Bob Beims, SSDS Project Lead (chair)

NXP

Constant Gordon

ST?

Intel

Steve Ballard, Pubs Manager

Seraphin Larsen

AMD

Strongin, Geoffrey

LSI Logic

Stan Relf

PMC-Sierra

Bob Murray

Qimonda (part of Infineon)

Gunnar Krause

Next Steps

Identify communication channel (email for now?)

Ratify the Charter

Complete SC application process (Seth Park offers to facilitate)

Name a secretary

Schedule meeting to begin project work

Regards,

--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: 
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

--T.S. Eliot