Re: Concerning the future of the "Decisions and Decision-Making Community Group" at W3C

Hi All,

I am very happy to see some activity here.

As a bit of background; I have been interested in and researching clinical
decision support for several years.  This has led me away, for a bit, from
actual decision rules thinking into trying to solve the basic lack of
interoperability across healthcare systems.  Now with a multi-level
modelling approach established I am ready to tackle the (fun) decision
making side again.

I realize that the group has a broader scope than healthcare but I think
healthcare is one of the most challenging domains.

As far as participation.  I will commit to participating and advocating.  I
am quite active on social media and have a number of colleagues interested
in healthcare decision support issues.  I can probably encourage a few new
members to join.

Cheers,
Tim



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Piotr Nowara <piotrnowara@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
>
> after the Incubator's final report I've made some minor updates &
> improvements to the decision ontology that was a part of incubator's report
> and I've published it on my decision ontology website[1]. To my surprise
> this website is still generating low but steady web traffic even though
> it's very rarely updated. So there's some kind of evidence that people
> interested in a decision & decision-making standard really exist (even
> outside our group) :)
>
> Recently a UK-based researcher emailed me asking about our D&DM incubator
> - he wanted to use a standard for descrbing decisions in his project.  I
> might contact him and ask him if he would be interested in joining our
> group.
>
> In my opinion it would be very valuable if we could develop a tool
> demonstrating the benefits of our approach (for example a Protégé plugin).
>
> Best regards,
> Piotr Nowara
>
> [1] https://code.google.com/p/decision-ontology/
>
>
> 2014-03-24 18:54 GMT+01:00 Eva Blomqvist <evabl444@gmail.com>:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>> as you are aware, this group was initiated by me and Jeff Waters in 2012,
>> as a continuation of the previous incubator group on the same topic. Our
>> intention was to carry on and further develop the work we did there.
>> However, due to lack of time, the group work never really took off.
>>
>> At one point, I volunteered to chair the group, but since then I have
>> unfortunately not been able to properly manage the group and start off the
>> work, mainly due to lack of time on my part. At the moment I am on
>> maternity leave, and will not be back in office until the autumn, hence,
>> this situation will not improve at least for the next half a year or so.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I still feel that this is a highly interesting topic, and a
>> lot has also happened around Semantic Web initiatives since 2012 that could
>> impact decision support systems. So, it would be interesting to see what
>> this group would be able to achieve, given the proper management! I would
>> therefore like to initiate a discussion among you (the members of the
>> group) here on the mailing-list, and suggest that you 1) decide if you also
>> feel this group is worth keeping, or if you'd rather we suggest the W3C to
>> shut it down, and 2) in case you want to keep it, propose someone else to
>> lead the group (in addition to me, or as a replacement to me - I'll agree
>> to either approach) and decide on a set of steps for kick-starting the
>> group work/discussions.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Eva Blomqvist
>>
>>
>


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