Re: First draft - Mission for O&G Semantic Web Interest Group

Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) wrote:
> Looks generally good, I guess.  I see it is modeled closely on the HCLS
> statement, some of which may have an HCLS flavor.  For example,
> disseminating to academia and government sounds like them, not us. 
> Perish the thought that we would disseminate anything at a government
> event, at least as far as I’m concerned.  I would personally just
> eliminate the last bullet as either obvious or misleading.  I might also
> wonder whether another bullet might be possible along the lines of
> identifying areas of concern to the industry that need further standards
> work from the W3C?  I’m a little surprised that HCLS doesn’t say
> something about that.  Hasn’t this actually (sort of) happened?
> 

We have to be careful how we phrase this, not to impose commitments on
W3C but yes, it is worth adding something along those lines.

Roger, to directly answer to your question: the HCSL community did not
come back with specific technologies to standardize, but have influenced
a lot, say, the evolution of OWL. In some ways, almost too strongly: one
of the critiques we got during the last call comments on OWL 2 was that
the requirements document is too dominated by HCLS related examples and
use cases:-)

Ivan

> Here’s a question.  You eliminated “Document guidelines to accelerate
> the adoption of the technology,” which I understand and seems reasonable
> for us, too, and replaced it with “Advocate the inclusion of industry
> standards to accelerate the adoption of the technology,” which I don’t
> understand.  Do you mean inclusion of SW industry standards in O&G
> business, or of O&G industry standards in SW?  And in either case, what
> was on your mind?  I don’t understand this one at all.
> 
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> *From:* Chum, Frank Y
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:33 PM
> *To:* public-ogsw@w3.org
> *Cc:* Ivan Herman; Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
> *Subject:* First draft - Mission for O&G Semantic Web Interest Group
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> Mission
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> The mission of the Oil & Gas Industry Semantic Web Interest Group, as
> part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/>, is
> to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web
> technologies for Oil & Gas exploration and production, reservoir
> management, major capital projects, facility and downstream operations,
> as well as knowledge and information management.  These domains stand to
> gain tremendous benefit by adoption of Semantic Web technologies, as
> they depend on the interoperability of information from many domains and
> processes for efficient decision support.
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> The group will:
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> ·         Document use cases to aid individuals in understanding the
> business and technical benefits of using Semantic Web technologies.
> 
> ·         Advocate the inclusion of industry standards to accelerate the
> adoption of the technology.
> 
> ·         Implement a selection of the use cases as proof-of-concept
> demonstrations.
> 
> ·         Explore the possibility of developing sharable high level
> vocabularies, or adopt those that are industry standards.
> 
> ·         Disseminate information about the group’s work at industry,
> academic, and government events.
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> Note that I have modeled this after the recently updated W3C Semantic
> Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group’s
> <http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/03/01/> mission. 
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> As Roger and I are proposing this under the auspices of W3C, we need to
> discuss the appropriate participation guidelines also.
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> Your thoughts?
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> Frank
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