{"id":25,"date":"2015-08-03T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/gao\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-08-03T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:10:34","slug":"informal-summary-of-our-first-community-group-conference-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/gao\/2015\/08\/03\/informal-summary-of-our-first-community-group-conference-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Informal summary of our first Community Group Conference Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first community group conference call was convened on Thursday July 30, 12 PM EDT. We had about 10 participants.<\/p>\n

After a brief introduction of all participants we have discussed the following matters:<\/p>\n

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  1. The current status of schema.org automotive vocabularies, both in the core (schema.org) and in the forthcoming extension (auto.schema.org)<\/li>\n
  2. The planned deliveries after the first<\/li>\n
  3. The potential change of the work plan to include brainstorming as the first step to build the initial \u201cbag-of-concepts\u201d that, together with concepts we already have in schema.org, will form the seed for GAO vocabulary.<\/li>\n
  4. The use of GitHub as the collaborative tool for our common development.<\/li>\n
  5. The use of FreeMind as the supporting tool for brainstorming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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<\/a>) mechanism.<\/p>\n

    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 \u201cmind mapping\u201d diagrams was recommended as they do not presuppose any specific kind of relation (like is_a relation) in the initial collection process.<\/p>\n

    The use of FreeMind tool (available\u00a0here<\/a>) has been proposed.<\/p>\n

    The initial diagrams for schema.org vocabularies and first attempt to create a bag of concepts for GAO were presented.<\/p>\n

    The current content of the two GitHub repositories:<\/p>\n