group's quick updates, and have a nice summer all

Hope everyone is having a good summer and getting lazy time
and welcome to new members
Please share your version of the classic summertime tune, if you have any
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUOtLLGv2w&ab_channel=DennisTschirner%7CVocalist>

I was hoping to be totally away from the computer, but got busy catching up
deadlines, I am however managing to spend time on the beach almost every
day, which means I am at least half on summer holiday. I hope this much for
you all, at a minimum.

 As you may have noticed, I am having trouble with my eyesight. Spell
checker does not catch everything. Apologies for the typos. I am not just
being sloppy.

AI KR standards are badly needed, and W3C is on the case

We plan to advance this CG to WG, so that we can draft a standard
for neurosymbolic knowledge representation, NSKR, at some point soon.

what is NSKR you may ask-

I had to carry out a lot of research and argue fairly hard for NS KR
because obviously some people say that NSI and KR are two different things,
also because I had not yet fully worked it out.

I have now completed the background research to  propose a standard for
neurosymbolic integration using model cards, and illustrated the case with
citable references (in the hope it will be cited, not plagiarized)

I needed to have some well thought out arguments and references before I
could  invite members of this AI KR CG to think about upgrading to WG and
start working on a standard

I ll soon be sharing the main points of the plan, and provided enough
members are ready to receive, well need 5 members to promote the CG to WG
and then we can get working

Finally, the first report was uploaded today - same old report presented at
TPAC 2021, which basically summarises the main arguments that motivated
this CG and point to future developments - just updated it it a bit since
drafting
https://www.w3.org/community/aikr/wiki/File:AI_KR_FIRST_REPORT_PUBLISHED_VERSION.pdf
Apologies for taking so long. Future reports may be published more timely
if someone volunteers to proofread.

Richard Lea was nominated cochair last spring and has agreed to help set up
a github repo for AI KR, he is working on it
He has also agreed and to work towards forming a WG so that we can move on
towards devising a new standard

Lastly, I have never really considered using the Internal mailing list
internal-aikr@w3.org  until Daniela Cialfi, a new member, posted there
recently
*(Monday, 25 July) Thank you Daniela. I guess there are too many trolls on
the open web.*
The internal-AIKR mailing list is only accessible to authenticated users,
rather than being publicly accessible. It could be a good idea to post to
the internal list only anything that group members are not yet ready to
share without authentication *referring to plagiarism concerns discussed
earlier

Continue to have a good summer, to resist  radical connectionism in machine
learning and more about the proposed standard soon

Paola Di Maio
Chair W3C AI KR CG