{"id":3,"date":"2026-02-23T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/2026\/02\/23\/call-for-participation-in-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:35:07","slug":"call-for-participation-in-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/2026\/02\/23\/call-for-participation-in-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation in Procedural Memory Knowledge Representation Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/\">Procedural Memory Knowledge Representation Community Group<\/a> has been launched:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Current knowledge representation systems suffer from massive duplication and fragmentation: the same knowledge (e.g., a Unicode character, mathematical symbol, or spatial concept) is duplicated across fonts, embeddings, accessibility metadata, and visual renderings. Redundant representations can create maintenance, performance, security, and licensing issues.<\/p>\n\n<p>The PM-KR Community Group will develop a knowledge representation paradigm where knowledge is stored once as executable procedures (like font programs or mathematical formula definitions) and referenced via symlink-style composition, enabling both humans and AI systems to consume the same procedural source.<\/p>\n\n<p>The group will study data models, execution semantics, conformance levels, and relationships with other W3C technologies (e.g., RDF, OWL, JSON-LD).<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Note<\/b>: This group is motivated by prior work on Knowledge3D, and that work may inform the group&#8217;s discussions. That work does not constrain the group&#8217;s discussions, nor will it be a deliverable of this group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to <a href=\"\/community\/pm-kr\/join\">join the group<\/a>, you will need\n    a <a\n            href=\"\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>. Please note, however, that <a\n            href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#is-w3c-membership-required-to-participate-in-a-community-or-business-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">W3C\n        Membership<\/a> is not required to join a Community Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2026-02-20 by\n    Daniel Ramos. The following people supported its creation: Adam Sobieski, Milton Ponson, Nitin Pasumarthy, Jonathan DeRouchie, Hanna Abi Akl and Daniel Ramos.\n    W3C&#8217;s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group must now <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">choose a chair<\/a>. Read more about <a\n            href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to get started in a new group<\/a> and\n    <a href=\"\/community\/about\/good-practice-for-running-a-group\/\">good practice for running a group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us\n    at <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you,<br\/>\nW3C Community Development Team<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Procedural Memory Knowledge Representation Community Group has been launched: Current knowledge representation systems suffer from massive duplication and fragmentation: the same knowledge (e.g., a Unicode character, mathematical symbol, or spatial concept) is duplicated across fonts, embeddings, accessibility metadata, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/2026\/02\/23\/call-for-participation-in-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/pm-kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}