Re: Vehicle Ontology Workshop announcement

Topic: VSSo workshop
Time: Mar 14, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 1:20 PM Ted Guild <edwardguild@geotab.com> wrote:

> We have decided to cut back this workshop to one day for three hours,
> specifically 14 March from 7-10PDT / 10-13EDT / 16-19CET.
>
> Those who want to propose items for the agenda may do so in Github
> although with more limited time we have less flexibility.
>
> https://github.com/w3c/vsso/issues/26
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 5:04 PM Ted Guild <edwardguild@geotab.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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