Re: AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group launched

Paola,
Ian,
All,

With respect to ways that AI can assist in standards-writing processes, perhaps code-documentation generation is a useful analogue.

Along these lines, I found an article: https://overcast.blog/ai-code-documentation-generators-a-guide-b6cd72cd0ec4 which listed the following products and services:

1. Swimm - https://swimm.io/

2. Qodo - https://www.qodo.ai/

3. DocuWriter.ai - http://www.docuwriter.ai/

4. Workik AI - http://www.workik.com/

5. CodeGPT - http://www.codegpt.co/

6. Docify
7. CodePal - https://codepal.ai/code-documentation


Many of these tools can integrate into CI/CD pipelines, enabling the automatic updating of code documentation during deployments, in response to codebase changes.

Standard models and schemas for technical requirements (intended for AI consumption) could be useful. With these, individuals, teams, and organizations could create, fine-tune, maintain, and otherwise invest time into their technical requirements about their documents' components, such that these requirements would subsequently be interoperable with and portable across AI projects, tools, products, and services.

As shared, there exist tools to extract technical requirements about documents from natural-language documents.

In theory, in addition to generating code documentation, AI could generate illustrative examples, and/or could evaluate these using provided technical requirements.

Interestingly, resultant technical documentation could be consumed by IDE-integrated AI assistants. IDE-integrated AI assistants could consult, cite, and refer software developers to (selections of) technical documents while answering more of developers' contextual, situational, natural-language questions arising during their software-development processes.

That's my two cents. Looking forward to collaborating in the new CG.


Best regards,
Adam

P.S.: I think that the resource with a hyperlink to a previous version of that demo is here: https://www.w3.org/community/aikr/wiki/AI_DRIVEN_WEB_STANDARDS_GENERATOR ?

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To: Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group launched

Hi Paola,

There is no link to any demo in the Community Group description:
 https://www.w3.org/community/aiwss/


Is there another resource you are referring to?

Ian

> On Dec 7, 2025, at 2:08 AM, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Public Council, Ian, Adam and everyone
> AI
> Thanks again for supporting the launch of the AIWSS community
>
> To my horror I just realized that the DEMO pointed in the CG description
> is the wrong one *arrgh
> There demo is not this *which is  a previous working draft of the demo
>
> But it should be this  which is the current working draft
> They are bot in principle proofs of concept only at this stage
> but one is better formed than the other
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to update the web page and/notify the breakout participants
> of the unfortunate mishap when sending out the breakout notes
>
> I was working on multiple web pages, presentations, recordings at the time, with a typhoon breaking up connectivity
> Thanks Adam for bringing my attention to this project today *had not looked at it since drafting
> I ll place a redirect link in the V1 as well
> Apologies for the incovenience
>
> PDM
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Paola Di Maio,
> All,
>
> Hello. I'm looking forward to participating in the new group's mailing-list discussions and activities and to learning more about the variety of ways that AI technologies can enhance collaborative technical documentation authoring and all related processes and procedures.
>
> In these regards, for example, I plan to share with the new group some hyperlinks to the Omnipedia project (https://github.com/wikius/omnipedia, https://omnipedia-client.pages.dev/) which I hope showcase how a team could use AI to evaluate technical documentation using provided requirements.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Adam Sobieski
>
> From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2025 1:37 AM
> To: public-council@w3.org <public-council@w3.org>
> Cc: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>; Sutida Kerdsuwan <k.sutida@gmail.com>; JASON NOIPROM <j_spaceship@outlook.co.th>; Anuj Desai <dez@montessori365.com>
> Subject: Re: AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group launched
>   Thank you for supporting the launch of this CG
> I know Adam from previous exchanges *hellow Adam
> but not sure I have interacted with others yet.
>
> It would be great if we could introduce ourselves
>
> My name is Paola Di Maio and I am the Chair of the AI KR CG, After many years of observing the going
> we have started to work towards shaping some artifacts to map the domain KR *knowledge representation
> This is a long and slow process but the sure way to grasp what is going on in AI
>
> Now that we have some artefacts ready to share, it would be great to figure out a way of getting them
> through consultation quickly, and then publish the most useful artefacts/specification to share them with the world
>
> This is how this new CG is coming into being. How can we  move the useful outcomes from  CGs
> into a spec/W3C standard ?
>
> I ll be consulting with community liaison soon to this effect, in the meantime, hope to get to meet you and look for a way
> forward
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Paola Di Maio,
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM <public-council@w3.org> wrote:
> With your support, the AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group has been launched:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/aiwss/

>
> This group was originally proposed on 2025-11-17 by Paola Di Maio.
> The following people supported its creation:
>   Paola Di Maio
>   Adam Sobieski
>   Sutida Kerdsuwan
>   JASON NOIPROM
>   Anuj Desai
>
> To join the group, please use:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/aiwss/join

>
> Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
> a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.
>
> --------------------
> The mission of this group is to develop AI-driven tools and methodologies to support the creation, evaluation, and publication of web standards specifications. This initiative emerges from a TPAC 2025 breakout session and builds upon foundational work by the [AI Knowledge Representation Community Group (AI KR CG)](https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/aikr/), recognizing that the evolution of web standards development processes can benefit from thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence capabilities.
>
> The web standards development process has evolved organically over three decades, relying primarily on human expertise, collaborative discussion, and iterative refinement. While this approach has successfully produced robust standards, it faces several contemporary challenges. Artificial intelligence systems have demonstrated capabilities in natural language understanding, technical documentation generation, pattern recognition, and systematic evaluation that could augment human expertise in standards development. This group plans to explore how AI can serve as a collaborative tool while preserving the essential human judgment, domain expertise, and community consensus that define legitimate standards work.
>
> Vision: To develop open, transparent AI systems that augment human capability in web standards specification development, making the process more efficient, accessible, and robust while maintaining the integrity and consensus-driven nature of W3C standards.
> --------------------
>
> Thank you,
>
> W3C Community Development Team
>

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