W3C

Tranportation Ontology Coordination Committee

03 Sep 2020

Attendees

Present
Mark, Megan, Clemens, Ken, Ted
Regrets
Chair
Mark
Scribe
Ted

Contents


Action item review

Mark: various site changes in collaboratory completed by Megan

Ken: I am changing logical data model to be city data model and physical to specification
... we will have separate pages in collaboratory for different properties of a class

Mark: correct

Minimum set of concerns

Mark: I can start with my list and ammend with feedback

[projects Concerns.pdf]

https://github.com/w3c/tocc/blob/master/management/InformationViewpointConcerns.md

Mark: we don't address analytics directly

'What dynamic metadata exists regarding the employed analytic methods used to produce the aggregated/fused data?'

Mark: may be a side effect
... I have not included any of the data rights
... to me this is outside of scope of what we are doing

Ken: doesn't everyone have to deal with it in order to share information?

Mark: absolutely but not as part of definition for city data model

Ken: then I cannot share any data...

Megan: models and standards information can still be shared

Ken: without agreement on data rights, no exchanges can take place

Clemens: we are not building any system but model/ontology

Mark: agree but this is not our focus

Ted: I see similar concerns in several other groups who also have deemed it out of scope, huge issue for data the world over.
...there are also numerous efforts, a few I'm partially familiar with but haven't found any that convince me solve the problem and will see wide adoption
...ones I like tend to capture metadata that accompanies the data representing who that is authorative gave permission to use what data with whom for what purposes

Megan: some of these are considerations that should be included with the data

Mark: one approach of dealing with data ownership, usage rights is to introduce a whole other ontology on it

Ken: if we actually want to connect more than two systems, it is much more difficult to leave it up to individual deployments

Mark: I agree with you, one is embed in ontology or a wrapper as you allude to wrt correspondence rules
... that is outside of the city data model ontology

Ken: I am willing to accept that, however we need some way to indicate how that can be recorded somewhere
... are we expecting different definitions of how that would be done or standardized and leveraged by this project

Mark: we have quite a bit of work around city data classes without getting into data rights, usage etc
... it is important but outside our scope

Ted: University of Passau along with some researchers from an institute in Lyon are working on Layered Policy Language and choosing to represent it using XACML (Oasis spec) which is a perhaps the most widely used policy language
...they have presented to W3C Auto folks a few times in the past and want to focus on automotive use cases currently
...I'm interested in hearing of other efforts

Ken: I can accept that is not the focus of this group but would like us to agree to a single or small number of solutions we find acceptable
... a placeholder is worthwhile
... that or we defer to every country or individual deployment
... we need to acknowledge this as an issue

Mark: agree, where should we put that... in the collaboratory?

Ken: yes

Mark: it could be an intramodel on data usage although hesitate to use term metadata
... category 2 is external to data model, system enforces restrictions

Ted: not sure it is _the_ solution or one even possible given complexities noted with myriad of laws internationally

Mark: does anyone want to speak towards Data Quality

Ted: yes, at least sampling methodology but also precision and fault tolerance

Ken: knowing what the data is, an average or precise measurement etc

Clemens: on speed example (multiple in vehicle gps, speedometer, drive train etc) isn't that the definition?

Ken: sampling method etc can likely be done within the data model

Mark: ISO 21972 includes measurement ontology, allows for representation on how things are measured and may provide us with most of what we want/need
... WG11 SmartCities see that as part of our foundation layer along with time, location, units of measure
... do we need such foundation layers

Clemens: there are lots of community specifications for these sorts of things. if we try to choose one as basis we may get lost in long debates instead of focusing on higher level

Mark: for instance if we want to use a unit of measurement in a property we can, they tend to be equivalent

Ken: may hinder interchanges

Clemens: how far do we want to go?

Ken: we need precision for inambiguous transformations or we cannot interop

Clemens: @@

Ken: we need more than a logical data model, your higher level focus

Clemens: we need to agree on our scope and we have some differences in expectations
... I want to bind concepts to given standards to understand how they relate to each other but wasn't expecting us to solve dynamic interop
... corresponding to concrete mapping

Ted: we could again defer and leave that to those to build individual bridges for that automatic interop

Ken: again, ok with decision but want to be clear on what our goals are

Mark: both are important but for first phase we want to clarify shareable classes and properties before we dig into particulars and mapping/interoperability

JTC1 WG11

Ted: I was hopefully we can identify core ontologies, ideally public at eg schema.org for core concepts

Mark: 21972 leverages OWL Time, PROVO and QUDT (NASA or independent, some thought W3C)

Megan: affiliated with NASA but used in W3C specs

Mark: NIST has guide for it

Ted: when we don't have clear winners and find ourselves arguing in circles, we can revert to identifying who uses which and let people do their own mapping/translations

Mark: any other obvious normative choices?

Clemens: SOSA and SSN

Mark: back to the higher level question are we trying to address data quality?

Ken: if we keep focus on higher level, no

Mark: similar with integrity concerns, all important points but out of our initial scope
... data storage, persistence, destruction - all very useful but not for initial phase
... data conformance and evolution... there are many interpretations of 'metadata' are we referring to the ontology itself or meta to it

Ken: I was pulling from other documents but instead use static (from model itself) and dynamic (eg how sampled)

Mark: next meeting in 2 weeks, 10 Eastern and continuing on this scoping

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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