Re: getting started on the Stats on the Web Best Practices

I remain very interested but will have to skip the meeting on the 22nd.

On 11/05/2017 09:19 AM, Bill Roberts wrote:
> Dear SDWIG colleagues
>
> In the first teleconference of the group on 25 October 
> (https://www.w3.org/2017/10/25-sdw-minutes.html) a number of us 
> expressed enthusiasm to work on the Statistics on the Web Best 
> Practices strand of work (StatsBP for short).
>
> The following people said they'd like to participate, and others are 
> of course welcome too:
> Me (Bill Roberts)
> Evangelos Kalampokis
> Chris Little
> Cindy Mitchell
> Krzysztof Janowicz
> Danh Le Phuoc
> Andrea Perego
> Raul Garcia Castro
> Michael Gordon
> Joseph Abhayaratna
>
>
> I'd like to propose that we get started with the work straight away.  
> I suggest that we have teleconferences once every two weeks.  With the 
> next plenary call scheduled for 29 November at 20:00 UTC, let's have 
> our first StatsBP call on 22 November, 20:00 UTC.  In the SDW working 
> group, that time seemed to work well in the northern hemisphere 
> winter, allowing people from US and Canada, Europe, Australia and New 
> Zealand all to take part at manageable times of day.
>
> Francois: would it be possible to set up the webex to be available at 
> that time?  Since we will avoid having a StatsBP call in the same week 
> as a plenary call, we could probably share the same call ID etc.
>
> On the 25th, we discussed how we would like to engage with the W3C 
> Semantic Statistics Community Group and Evangelos has volunteered to 
> coordinate with that group.  Members of the CG are also welcome to 
> join the calls.
>
> I suggest we follow the approach that we took to make the Spatial Data 
> on the Web Best Practices.  The main outputs of the group will 
> therefore be:
> Use cases and requirements document (see the spatial data one at 
> https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-ucr/)
> A Best Practices document
>
> The first step is to formulate a set of use cases, from which we can 
> derive a list of requirements.  That will then help us define the 
> scope of our best practices.
>
> I've created a placeholder document in the SDW github repository:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/stats-bp/draft-use-case-list.md
>
> It would also be interesting to start collecting examples of what we 
> think of as good or best practice in various aspects of sharing 
> statistical data via the web. I've created an empty doc here 
> https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/stats-bp/examples-of-good-practice.md 
> where we can start gathering those.
>
> Those of you who are happy using github and have access to the sdw 
> repository, feel free to edit those documents directly (contact 
> Francois if you are a member of the group but don't yet have access to 
> that repo).  If you prefer, share ideas via the mailing list and I am 
> happy to compile them into the documents.
>
> I'd like to aim to have some provisional use cases to discuss at the 
> call on 22 November.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bill


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Received on Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:18:25 UTC