{"id":9626,"date":"2026-02-20T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/proposed-group-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:33:39","slug":"proposed-group-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/proposed-group-procedural-memory-knowledge-representation-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Group: Procedural Memory Knowledge Representation Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Procedural Memory Knowledge Representation Community Group has been proposed by Daniel Ramos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\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<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n<p>\n    You are invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/groups\/proposed\/#pm-kr\">support the creation of this group<\/a>.\n    Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as &#8220;proposed&#8221;; it will be in the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/groups\/\">current groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a>\n<\/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 proposed by Daniel Ramos: 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/proposed-group-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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}