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

I think the key decision to make is whether we still want to focus on a
generic decision-making standard or to introduce some domain-level
discussion. I think the latter would give us better perspectives.

I'm glad that Tim mentioned the healthcare domain in his email, because I
think there's a particular need for a decision standard in this field
(there is already some initial adoption of Semantic Web technologies in
this domain so it might also be easier to find valuable contributors).

Greetings,
Piotr


2014-03-24 21:52 GMT+01:00 Timothy W. Cook <tim@mlhim.org>:

> 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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