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Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through CollaborationSmithsonian Institution, Washington DC
21 September, 2010
How Do We Create and Maintain Standards?
Eric [email protected]
Common ThemesCommon Themes
•(a) Wrong place and the wrong time
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Common ThemesCommon Themes
•(a) Wrong place and the wrong time
•(b) Horrible acronyms
Common ThemesCommon Themes
•(a) Wrong place and the wrong time
•(b) Horrible acronyms
•(c) Art of the Possible
SolutionsSolutions
•Group Solutions—Common Values
•“Things work at scale because the community subscribes to the same values.”
Creative TensionCreative Tension
Creative TensionCreative Tension
DiversityDiversity
Common Values?Common Values?
Value continuum Value continuum
Move beyond self interest for the greater good
What’s in it for me /my company?
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Define standards only to the point necessary
•under-specificity can be a good thing
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Provide as clear of scope as possible
•set expectations up front
•clear process for extending scope if needed
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Define process for governance and social engineering
•find the middle ground between yahoo groups to robert’s rules
•level the playing field - everyone gets (the option) to have a voice
•be clear about your participation model
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Define use cases up front
•use this to reflect scope
•use this to articulate (societal) benefit
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Reference implementation (if applicable)
•grounds utility of standards
•accelerates deployment
•use this to articulate (technical) benefit
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Establish a clear position on your IP up front
•e.g. royalty free vs RAND
•e.g. OSI approved Open Source License for code
•e.g. Creative Commons for document deliverables
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Record your decisions / preserve your discourse
•archive email discussion
•referenceable meeting minutes
•link resolutions to discourse
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Identify the intersection of common goals representative of participants
•complementary commercial and societal impact
•coopetition
•provide clear benefit for participants (institutions)
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Create an environment that empowers participants / acknowledges effort
•high-light work
•share the wealth / credit / spotlight
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Benevolent dictator / chair / leader
•model for escalation
•hope to never use
•defined process comes in handy here
Abstracted StrategiesAbstracted Strategies
•Maintain a clear Feedback loop
•During the process
•After the standard is “complete”
Why extend beyond LAM?
Why extend beyond LAM?
•Data management, selection, aggregation, preservation, curation, delivery, etc. are no longer the domain of just LAM
•LAM has a huge opportunity to share knowledge and shape deliverables (that then benefit LAM)
•Trust transfers
•Extraordinarily effective means to move beyond self interest for the greater good
One quick exampleOne quick example
•W3C Provenance Group
•http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/
•Why not more LAM?
Creative TensionCreative Tension
Expand comfort zone
Expand comfort zone
Thank youThank you