Re: Vehicle Ontology Workshop announcement

The minutes for this workshop are available online and include links to the
video recording and slides.

Thank you all who participated.

https://www.w3.org/2022/03/14-auto-minutes.html

The main goals were to increase awareness of this ontology, seek input on a
design decision around subclasses vs instances and try to engage additional
parties in VSSo's standards development. On subclasses vs instances, we
even came up with a proposal including recommendation to consider OWL2
Punning to get the benefits of both.

We will work primarily in github and thought a biweekly meeting would be
the right cadence. I have created a doodle with a limited number of
timeslots that are conducive for CET and PST. If you are inclined please
indicate availability in the doodle. If you're are unable to make those
times but still interested, please let Daniel, Felix and I know.

https://github.com/w3c/vsso/
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/QbYwOlAe


On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM Ted Guild <edwardguild@geotab.com> wrote:

> As I received an inquiry asking if it was alright to forward, I should
> provide the answer to the rest of the recipients of the earlier email.
>
> This event is open to the public, membership in W3C or COVESA is not
> required. We will record and similarly make public any record of the
> proceedings.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:14 AM Ted Guild <edwardguild@geotab.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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