[x3d-public] X3D Semantic Web discussion minutes, 13 DEC 2018

[Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV)]

We had a call to discuss the draft X3D Semantic Web working group preparations.  Many things are coming together for the new year.  8)

1. Attendees: Jakub Flotynski, Athanasios Malamos, Don Brutzman.  Planned followup with Leslie Sikos.

2. Status: our draft charter and draft working group page have been submitted to Web3D Board of Directors for review.  We hope to get responses (and hopefully guidance for approval) in early January 2019.

3. Website. We reviewed details on these draft pages.

* X3D Semantic Web Working Group
         http://www.web3d.org/x3d-semantic-web-working-group

* X3D Semantic Web Working Group Charter
         http://www.web3d.org/x3d-semantic-web-working-group-charter

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4. Mailing list:  it might be useful to put our traffic on a separate new public list, /semantics at web3d.org/

Now added to the draft charter as a request for when the work is approved.

5. Jakub has prepared a very interesting site with a huge number of references.

	http://semantic3d.org
	http://semantic3d.org/publications

We considered how to best start collecting and saving references and presentations of interest.  Poznan University will continue to build additional references for their project, and also how the working group shares knowledge.  Web3D has excellent infrastructure which we can use, but it also always good to build on successful approaches.  So, how to best proceed?

Everyone please think about this point.  We will discuss further next week.  To be fully effective, I expect we will need someone in the working group who accepts the responsibility for curating these important assets.

6. To get the discussion started, Thanos will present some of his X3D semantics work next week with a focus on project achievements, lessons learned, and what semantic aspects seem to be missing from X3D.

We will also spend some time to consider
- how to archive and share the many reference materials that are expected,
- tentative schedule of upcoming presentations in 2019

7. Next year, once approved, we will prepare an announcement about the working group that includes information about each of our projects.

8. Next meeting: we plan to meet together at the same time next week, Thursday 20 DEC 2018, 09-1000 pacific (18-19 Poland, 19-20 Greece).

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Having fun semantically with X3D!  8)

all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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