Standardisation of the SEAS ontologies at ETSI: need for official support

Dear all,

(targeting EU members)

We are about to submit a STF proposal (Specialist Task Force) at ETSI to
incorporate lessons learnt during the SEAS projet in the ETSI EU standard
ontology SAREF.
I would like to ask you to officially support this proposal, even if your
company/univ is not an ETSI member (quite important to get the proposal
accepted).

The supporting mail is to be sent by next monday 26/02/2018 to Enrico
Scarrone (chair de SmartM2M) and myself

To: maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr; Enrico.Scarrone@TelecomItalia.it
Objet: Support to the Specialist Task Force SEAS-SAREF

Dear Maxime, Enrico,

I hereby confirm that <Entreprise> supports the Specialist Task Force "
Consolidation of SAREF and its community of industrial users, based on the
lessons learnt from the SEAS project", for the following reasons:

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To know more about this proposal (and to help you write your answer), the
work to be done is described there:
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https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=53166
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https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=53167
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https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=54480

It includes the addition of core SEAS ontologies to SAREF, and some of the
extensions that have been developed during the SEAS project and after. It
also includes an important work to design and develop the new publication
and documentation website for the SAREF ontology and its extensions, such
that: (1) the documentation is designed for domain experts and software
developers instead of ontology engineers, (2) industries can like or share
the content, provide useful feedback to SAREF developers and suggest
additions/modifications. Additionally, SAREF developers would get to know
more about the SAREF community of users. This deliverable will enable
industries to implement solutions with SAREF faster. It will reinforce the
engagement of the community of users such that the SAREF developers can
plan new evolution of the current and future extensions

Thank you in advance for your support,
Maxime Lefrançois
Associate Professor, MINES Saint-Etienne