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

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

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

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

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

8. Creative Tension

10. Diversity

11. Common Values?

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

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

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

15. 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

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

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

18. 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

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

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

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

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

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

24. 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

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

26. Creative Tension

27. Expand comfort zone

28. Thank you Eric Millerem@zepheira.comem@zepheira.com Eric Millerem@zepheira.comem@zepheira.com