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Creating and Maintaining Standards: Leadership Through Collaboration

Explore strategies for defining standards, process governance, and fostering collaboration to create beneficial outcomes while maintaining common values. Learn how to extend beyond self-interest for the greater good.

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Creating and Maintaining Standards: Leadership Through Collaboration

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  1. How Do We Create and Maintain Standards? Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 21 September, 2010 Eric Miller em@zepheira.com

  2. Common Themes • (a) Wrong place and the wrong time

  3. Common Themes • (a) Wrong place and the wrong time • (b) Horrible acronyms

  4. Common Themes • (a) Wrong place and the wrong time • (b) Horrible acronyms • (c) Art of the Possible

  5. Solutions • Group Solutions—Common Values • “Things work at scale because the community subscribes to the same values.”

  6. Creative Tension

  7. Creative Tension

  8. Diversity

  9. Common Values?

  10. Value continuum Move beyond self interest for the greater good What’s in it for me / my company?

  11. Abstracted Strategies • Define standards only to the point necessary • under-specificity can be a good thing

  12. Abstracted Strategies • Provide as clear of scope as possible • set expectations up front • clear process for extending scope if needed

  13. Abstracted 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

  14. Abstracted Strategies • Define use cases up front • use this to reflect scope • use this to articulate (societal) benefit

  15. Abstracted Strategies • Reference implementation (if applicable) • grounds utility of standards • accelerates deployment • use this to articulate (technical) benefit

  16. Abstracted 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

  17. Abstracted Strategies • Record your decisions / preserve your discourse • archive email discussion • referenceable meeting minutes • link resolutions to discourse

  18. Abstracted Strategies • Identify the intersection of common goals representative of participants • complementary commercial and societal impact • coopetition • provide clear benefit for participants (institutions)

  19. Abstracted Strategies • Create an environment that empowers participants / acknowledges effort • high-light work • share the wealth / credit / spotlight

  20. Abstracted Strategies • Benevolent dictator / chair / leader • model for escalation • hope to never use • defined process comes in handy here

  21. Abstracted Strategies • Maintain a clear Feedback loop • During the process • After the standard is “complete”

  22. 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

  23. One quick example • W3C Provenance Group • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/ • Why not more LAM?

  24. Creative Tension

  25. Expand comfort zone

  26. Thank you Eric Millerem@zepheira.com

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