Re: Concerning the future of the "Decisions and Decision-Making Community Group" at W3C

Dear Group,


after the Incubator's final report I've made some minor updates &
improvements to the decision ontology that was a part of incubator's report
and I've published it on my decision ontology website[1]. To my surprise
this website is still generating low but steady web traffic even though
it's very rarely updated. So there's some kind of evidence that people
interested in a decision & decision-making standard really exist (even
outside our group) :)

Recently a UK-based researcher emailed me asking about our D&DM incubator -
he wanted to use a standard for descrbing decisions in his project.  I
might contact him and ask him if he would be interested in joining our
group.

In my opinion it would be very valuable if we could develop a tool
demonstrating the benefits of our approach (for example a Protégé plugin).

Best regards,
Piotr Nowara

[1] https://code.google.com/p/decision-ontology/


2014-03-24 18:54 GMT+01:00 Eva Blomqvist <evabl444@gmail.com>:

> Dear colleagues,
> as you are aware, this group was initiated by me and Jeff Waters in 2012,
> as a continuation of the previous incubator group on the same topic. Our
> intention was to carry on and further develop the work we did there.
> However, due to lack of time, the group work never really took off.
>
> At one point, I volunteered to chair the group, but since then I have
> unfortunately not been able to properly manage the group and start off the
> work, mainly due to lack of time on my part. At the moment I am on
> maternity leave, and will not be back in office until the autumn, hence,
> this situation will not improve at least for the next half a year or so.
>
> Nevertheless, I still feel that this is a highly interesting topic, and a
> lot has also happened around Semantic Web initiatives since 2012 that could
> impact decision support systems. So, it would be interesting to see what
> this group would be able to achieve, given the proper management! I would
> therefore like to initiate a discussion among you (the members of the
> group) here on the mailing-list, and suggest that you 1) decide if you also
> feel this group is worth keeping, or if you'd rather we suggest the W3C to
> shut it down, and 2) in case you want to keep it, propose someone else to
> lead the group (in addition to me, or as a replacement to me - I'll agree
> to either approach) and decide on a set of steps for kick-starting the
> group work/discussions.
>
> Best regards,
> Eva Blomqvist
>
>