The Automotive Ontology Working Group is an informal group of individuals and corporations who want to advance the use of shared conceptual structures in the form of Web ontologies for better data interoperability in the automotive industry, and this at Web scale. In particular, we want to develop extension proposals for schema.org so that automotive information can be better understood by search engines and OWL Web ontologies for the automotive industry. Also, we want to provide a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on advancing the field.
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The main theme for the call is:
How to accelerate the adoption of auto.schema.org in the Automotive Industry Digital Platforms
More specific call agenda will follow early this week.
Mirek
Hi everybody,
Some time ago we received suggestion that it would be easier to comment on the automotive extension to schema.org if we had draft versions of the schema.org application.
We have recently created it. Please find it at: http://sdo-gao.appspot.com/ for core and http://auto.sdo-gao.appspot.com/ for auto extension.
As for an example, here is one of the recently changed properties:
http://auto.sdo-gao.appspot.com/emissionsCO2
We are looking forward to inclusion of the changes into production site for schema.org !
Mirek
Dear All,
It comes a bit later than I expected, nonetheless I’m happy to inform you that as the results of our discussions here we are now proposing the following changes to schema.org types and properties related to our automotive extension:
have been moved to auto.schema.org.
There is also an issue being discussed on the GitHub whether http://schema.org/vehicleSpecialUsage should be in the core or in the extension. As soon as this is resolved and some errors related to this property range and domain, we will lunch the Pull Request that will end this phase of Community review.
Thanks to all for your remarks !
Mirek
Dear All,
We came to the end of the review process. There were few changes proposed, and after some discussion we have one change to make (thanks to Tom Adamich):
Broaden the range of emmisionsCO2 property.
We suggest adding QuantitativeValue to the range of emmisionsCO2 property. One could then use “name” or “valueReference” to relate to test protocols or standards.
This change also requires modification of property description.
We will now proceed to get this change accepted and activated !
Stay tuned !
Mirek
Dear All,
To help with the review we just launched, please find a simple indented list of all terms in auto.schema.org.
We use red color for types, turquoise for individua and default color for properties.
All terms are hyperlinks to respective auto.schema.org description.
Hope this helps !
Mirek
Dear All,
Let’s initiate a process of GAO community review of auto.schema.org extension.
The final shape of the extension can be explored at http://auto.schema.org/
For easy visual inspection of the extension you can go to:
https://www.w3.org/community/gao/2015/08/07/pre-final-preview-release-of-auto-schema-org/ or
https://www.w3.org/community/gao/2015/08/03/informal-summary-of-our-first-community-group-conference-call/
(The later post includes description how to work with FreeMind on the extension – if you liked to play with a Mind Map representation of the schema !)
Whenever you find some very important term (type or property) related to cars missing from the extension, or you would name or define existing property differently, please let us know.
The comments can go directly to: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/704 or to this post.
We will collect and respect them all !
Our intention is to close this review process in about 2 weeks (i.e. until ~ October 18th), organize the second teleconference and finally inform schema.org team about the community group position.
Mirek
Dear All,
Please find some important remarks and a technical guidance about the initial phase of works on GAO. Feel free to comment on that matters – our goal is to create the process that is not too complicated and assumes use of simple tools (at least in the beginning)
We start building GAO from collecting the concepts recognised as relevant within the automotive domain.
The concepts will be collected in a conceptual map called „bag-of-concepts”. Adding the new concepts to the conceptual map, we can take advantage of the auto.schema.org or go beyond the set of concepts we have there. The first set of concepts is stored in GAO.mm file.
By the collaborative development we shall create the conceptualisation of the automotive domain shared by all the participants of Automotive Ontology Community Group.
At this stage of GAO development process we shall not impose any semantical structure on the bag-of-concepts. The concepts are to be loosely linked by one relation which covers all the SKOS-like hierarchical and associative relations such as “broader”, “narrower” and “(somehow) related”.
Of course, in the end, GAO is intended to be a formal specification (RDF(S) or OWL) of the conceptualisation of the automotive domain (shared by all the participants of Automotive Ontology Community Group). So just after the community decides the work on the conceptual map of the domain was completed, we shall transform the bag-of-concepts into the first version of GAO
At this stage to contribute to GAO it is enough to have the most up-to-date conceptual map of GAO concepts represented by the mind mapping diagram (see GAO.mm file). The GAO.mm file can be easily modified by FreeMind tool (available here: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download).
GAO.mm file is located in GitHub GAO-GAO repository (see: https://github.com/W3C-GAO/gao-gao). The path is:
bag-of-concepts mindmap –> freemind files –> GAO.mm
It is recommended to use a GitHub software (win: https://windows.github.com or mac: https://mac.github.com) to access and modify GAO-GAO repository. You can use standard
If you prefer you can also open/submit an issue suggesting some changes or send your GAO.mm files by e-mail directly to robert.trypuz@makolab.net.
Further steps of GAO development process will be discussed during the next teleconference (see GAO Community Charter: https://www.w3.org/wiki/GAO_Community_Charter).
Great day for our community: auto.schema.org is live online!
It is now open for review so we have the chance to improve in the spirit of our last conference call.
You can post comments on https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/704
or discuss it within our group – we would then consolidate the requests.
Here is the last diagram of the extension:
Our first community group conference call was convened on Thursday July 30, 12 PM EDT. We had about 10 participants.
After a brief introduction of all participants we have discussed the following matters:
Referring to matters (1) and (2) Martin Hepp explained that while we can propose some modifications to schema.org automotive vocabularies, particularly to the forthcoming auto.schema.org extensions, we should not make revolutionary changes. Both core and auto.schema.org are reviewed extensions and there is always a risk of long review processes and a danger promoting terms that are not important from global search engines perspectives. Martin also explained that more manufacturer specific terms can us schema.org Property-Value (https://schema.org/PropertyValue) mechanism.
The rest of the call was devoted to the plans to introduce brainstorming process as a first step in going beyond the set of terms we have in schema.org. In that context, the use of “mind mapping” diagrams was recommended as they do not presuppose any specific kind of relation (like is_a relation) in the initial collection process.
The use of FreeMind tool (available here) has been proposed.
The initial diagrams for schema.org vocabularies and first attempt to create a bag of concepts for GAO were presented.
The current content of the two GitHub repositories:
is limited to Freemind native files (‘mm’ extension)
The next call is planned after summer holidays in September. Meanwhile the practical methods of building the set of terms will be proposed by us so that we can start fully productive activity after the next call.
The diagrams presented during the call:
1) Current schema.org core set of terms:
2) Proposed (awaiting publication) auto.schema.org set of terms:
(Note: there are some small difference between the diagram and current proposal)
3) The first trial set of terms for GAO brainstorming:
Hello All,
We had a very nice and informative first Community Group Conference call last week (The summary is coming here soon).
One of the results of the call is that we agreed to use GitHub as our repository of electronic materials, source code, future ontology files etc.
Our profile is https://github.com/W3C-GAO and has been temporarily assigned to the email account gao@makolab.com (until we practically figure out how to use our internal w3.org email facility of this group for such purposes).
There are two repositories:
https://github.com/W3C-GAO/gao-schema.org – related to schema.org matters (both core and extension – auto.schema.org)
https://github.com/W3C-GAO/gao-gao – related to the development of GAO ontology.
Both contain source files for FreeMind tool (available here) that we will use for sketching the structure and content of our vocabularies as the initial tool for brainstorming. I will shortly describe it all in the call summary.
Anyone from this community group who plans to contribute to the development (all are warmly welcomed) please send the respective request to me (sopekmir@makolab.pl).
Cheers
Mirek@Lodz
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