Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium.

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In this issue:

* eGov workshop in Brussels will focus on Public Finance
* Symmetric Key Services Markup Language 1.0 public review begins
* Reference Ontology for Semantic SOA 1.0 public review begins
* OASIS eGov Member Section holds Steering Committee elections
* Volunteers translate oBIX into Japanese, DITA and XLIFF into French
* OASIS seeks senior web developer

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eGov workshop in Brussels will focus on Public Finance

The Belgian Federal Ministry of Finance, Service Public Federal Finance [SPFF] and the OASIS eGovernment Member Section will host a workshop on "Public Finance: ICT Solutions Using SOA and Web Services." The event, which will be held on 19 Feb, is designed to bring together a wide range of officials from various ministries concerned with tax, revenue and related public finance issues, members of the secretariats of several international and European organizations, and representatives of technology companies and industry/trade associations. There is no cost to attend; however space is limited and delegates are advised to register early.

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/egov-brussels-workshop/2009

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Symmetric Key Services Markup Language 1.0 public review begins

SKSML is an XML-based messaging protocol that enables applications executing on computing devices to request and receive symmetric key-management services from centralized key-management servers, securely, over networks. This public review is limited in scope and ends 26 Dec.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200812/msg00002.html

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Reference Ontology for Semantic SOA 1.0 public review begins

Developed by the Semantic Execution Environment TC, the Reference Ontology for Semantic SOA is an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and their relationships within a semantically enabled, service-oriented environment. This public review ends 7 Feb.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200812/msg00001.html

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OASIS eGov Member Section holds Steering Committee elections

Nominations are now open for five seats on the OASIS eGovernment Member Section (eGov MS) Steering Committee. The eGov MS serves as a focal point for discussions of governmental and public administration requirements for e-business standardization. Two seats on the Steering Committee are reserved for employees of governmental or public administration entities, and three seats are open to any eGov MS member. All eGov MS participants are invited to nominate qualified candidates and/or serve.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/egov-ms/200812/msg00000.html

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Volunteers translate oBIX into Japanese, DITA and XLIFF into French

OASIS congratulates LonMark Japan for translating the OBIX 1.0 Committee Specification into Japanese and Jean-Jacques Solari for translating both the DITA v1.1 and XLIFF v1.2 OASIS Standards into French. These are all unofficial, non-normative documents provided to the global community as an informational service.

oBIX http://lmjapan.org/docs/technique/obix-1.0-cs-01jpn00.pdf
DITA http://www.yoyodesign.org/doc/oasis/dita11/overview/overview.html
XLIFF http://www.yoyodesign.org/doc/oasis/xliff12/index.html

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OASIS seeks senior web developer

The consortium has a job opening for a full-time developer to take a lead role in web applications, data modeling, and software implementation and integration. This position is part of our Technology Services team responsible for both the development and ongoing support of the web collaboration services offered to our members. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/sr-web-developer.php

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Important dates:

26 Dec
Symmetric Key Services Markup Language 1.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200812/msg00002.html

6 Jan
UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200811/msg00002.html

13-15 Jan
SOA-Tel TC holds first meeting (face-to-face)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200811/msg00003.html

7 Feb
Reference Ontology for Semantic SOA 1.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200812/msg00001.html

19 Feb
OASIS eGov workshop on Public Finance (Brussels)
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/egov-brussels-workshop/2009

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