Vehicle Ontology Workshop announcement

We will be publishing a significantly updated version of the Vehicle Signal
Specification ontology (VSSo) primer[1], core[2] and expanded[3] soon.

The underlying Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS)[4] has evolved
significantly and in part that refactoring was done with the ontology in
mind. The version of VSSo received as a W3C Member Submission [5] was based
on VSS version 1.0 and now VSS is nearing its 3.0 release. Considerable
work has been done on the tooling so the core truth of VSS in YAML can be
used to generate portions of the VSSo specification. These two efforts by
COVESA and W3C are in close coordination as part of their joint Common
Vehicle Interface Initiative (CVII).

VSS has a number of derivative formats, CSV, JSON, protobuf, a Graph schema
that similarly are kept in sync. We are also starting to see derivations
from VSSo, specifically a mostly automatic generated mapping to Microsoft's
Digital Twin Definition Language.

VSSo will also be on W3C's Recommendation Track, graduating from the
Automotive and Transportation Business Group and handed over the W3C
Automotive Working Group for formal standardization with a First Public
Working Draft to be published in the very near future.

The ontology has a multitude of uses ranging from analytics, machine
learning, thing description for W3C Web of Things to name a few. Some are
starting to experiment with it for in-vehicle AI use, both machine learning
and at some point influencing decisions for Autonomous Vehicles.

We felt it would be worthwhile to reach out to the community to increase
awareness of this and related efforts and hold a workshop to learn more
about them and influence the direction they should take. We are thinking of
March to hold this workshop and request that you answer the survey
indicating your availability, also feel free to let me know your ideas for
agenda topics [6] or to indicate interest in making a presentation.

Please indicate on this survey [7] which days might work best for you, we
will select two consecutive that gets us critical mass.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/vsso/spec/vsso-primer.html
[2] https://w3c.github.io/vsso/spec/vsso-core-re.html
[3] https://w3c.github.io/vsso/spec/vsso-re.html
[4] https://covesa.github.io/vehicle_signal_specification/
[5] https://www.w3.org/Submission/2020/02/
[6] https://www.w3.org/auto/wg/wiki/VSSo-workshop
[7] https://doodle.com/poll/arr8pv4r7kwdhb4m?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
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