Meeting minutes
Special Issue of JMUI
debbie: should be "Journal on Multimodal Interfaces"
debbie: is there a way to see submissions?
dirk: we should receive a notification for each submission
debbie: we can send around the web page
dirk: there is no conflict with older instructions
debbie: I can post it on some Linux Foundation Slack channels
… A2A just joined the Agentic AI Foundation, so they should be interested
grounding
dirk: didn't have time but Kristiina asked if there were any standards on grounding
dirk: open knowledge format, an effort from Google
GoogleCloudPlatform/
(from README) an AI-powered data catalog and metadata management platform. It provides a dynamic knowledge graph of all your data, structured and unstructured, to provide semantics and business context to AI agents
debbie: this sounds like "context engineering"
dirk: used in Open Wiki, they analyze source code and provides documentation, etc. as markdown files
… Langchain
debbie: that sounds like context engineering
dirk: can try to give an overview of Open Knowledge Format for next time
debbie: so many people are interested in this
… also ties into grounding
dirk: could this format help with context for conversational agents, so you don't have to set up a database
debbie: if this worked, does it mean that RAG is losing its value?
dirk: or supplement it
debbie: there are a lot of existing databases, so RAG could still be used, but this could help with areas where there aren't any existing databases
debbie: knowledge grounding sounds like the semantic web
debbie: maybe we still need to think about what we would work on
dirk: what would be tasks? Publicize web page, prepare a talk on Open Knowledge Format
… I can also send to the Sigdial mailing list
dirk: not sure if OKF is helpful for grounding