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

Hi,

not sure how much effort I'll be able to contribute to this group, or for
how long, but I'll bring my QB4ST baggage along looking for a donkey to pin
it on :-) Actually will be interested in to what extent we can/need to
profile existing service interfaces and data models to support specific
statistical concepts,  and in particular how these may relate to data
aggregation use cases in systems of systems like GEOSS

Rob Atkinson


On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 10:13 Joseph Abhayaratna <
Joseph.Abhayaratna@psma.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
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> I’ll be there.
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> Cheers,
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> Jo
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> *From:* Bill Roberts [mailto:bill@swirrl.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, 6 November 2017 4:20 AM
> *To:* public-sdwig@w3.org
> *Subject:* getting started on the Stats on the Web Best Practices
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> Dear SDWIG colleagues
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> 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).
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> The following people said they'd like to participate, and others are of
> course welcome too:
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> Me (Bill Roberts)
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> Evangelos Kalampokis
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> Chris Little
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> Cindy Mitchell
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> Krzysztof Janowicz
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> Danh Le Phuoc
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> Andrea Perego
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> Raul Garcia Castro
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> Michael Gordon
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> Joseph Abhayaratna
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> Use cases and requirements document (see the spatial data one at
> https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-ucr/)
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> A Best Practices document
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> 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.
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> I've created a placeholder document in the SDW github repository:
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> https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/stats-bp/draft-use-case-list.md
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'd like to aim to have some provisional use cases to discuss at the call
> on 22 November.
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> Best regards
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> Bill
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