Re: First draft - Mission for O&G Semantic Web Interest Group

Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) wrote:
> OH MY!  You mean, the spec was unduly influenced by the people actually
> trying to use it?  Heavens!! 

:-) No. The critique was that other communities were not well
represented. So time for the energy people to do the same:-)

Ivan


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org] 
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:30 AM
> To: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
> Cc: Chum, Frank Y; public-ogsw@w3.org
> Subject: Re: First draft - Mission for O&G Semantic Web Interest Group
> 
> 
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> Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) wrote:
>> Looks generally good, I guess.  I see it is modeled closely on the 
>> HCLS statement, some of which may have an HCLS flavor.  For example, 
>> disseminating to academia and government sounds like them, not us.
>> Perish the thought that we would disseminate anything at a government 
>> event, at least as far as I'm concerned.  I would personally just 
>> eliminate the last bullet as either obvious or misleading.  I might 
>> also wonder whether another bullet might be possible along the lines 
>> of identifying areas of concern to the industry that need further 
>> standards work from the W3C?  I'm a little surprised that HCLS doesn't
> 
>> say something about that.  Hasn't this actually (sort of) happened?
>>
> 
> We have to be careful how we phrase this, not to impose commitments on
> W3C but yes, it is worth adding something along those lines.
> 
> Roger, to directly answer to your question: the HCSL community did not
> come back with specific technologies to standardize, but have influenced
> a lot, say, the evolution of OWL. In some ways, almost too strongly: one
> of the critiques we got during the last call comments on OWL 2 was that
> the requirements document is too dominated by HCLS related examples and
> use cases:-)
> 
> Ivan
> 
>> Here's a question.  You eliminated "Document guidelines to accelerate 
>> the adoption of the technology," which I understand and seems 
>> reasonable for us, too, and replaced it with "Advocate the inclusion 
>> of industry standards to accelerate the adoption of the technology," 
>> which I don't understand.  Do you mean inclusion of SW industry 
>> standards in O&G business, or of O&G industry standards in SW?  And in
> 
>> either case, what was on your mind?  I don't understand this one at
> all.
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Chum, Frank Y
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:33 PM
>> *To:* public-ogsw@w3.org
>> *Cc:* Ivan Herman; Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
>> *Subject:* First draft - Mission for O&G Semantic Web Interest Group
>>
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>> Mission
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>> The mission of the Oil & Gas Industry Semantic Web Interest Group, as 
>> part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/>, is
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>> to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web 
>> technologies for Oil & Gas exploration and production, reservoir 
>> management, major capital projects, facility and downstream 
>> operations, as well as knowledge and information management.  These 
>> domains stand to gain tremendous benefit by adoption of Semantic Web 
>> technologies, as they depend on the interoperability of information 
>> from many domains and processes for efficient decision support.
>>
>>  
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>> The group will:
>>
>> *         Document use cases to aid individuals in understanding the
>> business and technical benefits of using Semantic Web technologies.
>>
>> *         Advocate the inclusion of industry standards to accelerate
> the
>> adoption of the technology.
>>
>> *         Implement a selection of the use cases as proof-of-concept
>> demonstrations.
>>
>> *         Explore the possibility of developing sharable high level
>> vocabularies, or adopt those that are industry standards.
>>
>> *         Disseminate information about the group's work at industry,
>> academic, and government events.
>>
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>> Note that I have modeled this after the recently updated W3C Semantic 
>> Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group's 
>> <http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/03/01/> mission.
>>
>>  
>>
>> As Roger and I are proposing this under the auspices of W3C, we need 
>> to discuss the appropriate participation guidelines also.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Your thoughts?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Frank
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>>  
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