2020-07-07 Weekly Meeting

07, July 2020  — 09:00-10:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC

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Agenda

Guiding Goal: Organize the working group.

• Welcome from the conveners (Paul, Robert—5 min)
  • What is Decentralized Semantics?
    • A representation of “data semantics” within an age of distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions which continue to mould the current decentralization movement. 
      • Ref.: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/be83/0ed8ce28b68d7b99a5be7dc61c35ed4089c4.pdf
  • Characteristics of a decentralized network
    • Ref.: https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/active-and-passive-identifiers
• Introductions (WG, 15 min)
• Mission and scope of this WG (Paul—10 min)
  • Mission: To define a data capture architecture consisting of immutable schema bases and interoperable overlays for Internet-scale deployment. 
    • Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA)
      • Ref.: https://oca.colossi.network
• Potential initial work items (Paul—15 min)
  • Suggested initial work items
    • Functionality requirements of a data capture architecture
      • Ref.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTf1A4JTbuNntMflQA-eakX-ClkqtY-N/edit
    • Task Force alignment with WG
      • Imaging TF (Proposed)
      • Medical Information TF (Proposed)
      • Notice & Consent TF (Proposed)
• Logistics (Paul—10 min)
1. Mailing list
2. Wiki
3. Github repo structure (repository of best practices)
4. Task Forces
5. Chairs
6. Meeting schedule

Meeting Notes

Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/9-pzLp7v00xIQ6_H827aYJFiDIH5eaa81CkZ__tZyxnJmd00C-pmmiF87vHvnXYT

Participants (Name / Location / Time zone / Affiliation / One-sentence summary of interest):

• Paul Knowles / Basel, Switzerland / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Developing OCA into a standardized global solution for data capture.
• Robert Mitwicki / Vienna, Austria / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Developing OCA into a standardized global solution for data capture.
• Vipin Bharathan / New York City, NY, USA / EDT / dlt.nyc / How do we interoperate? Data Semantics will help.
• Philippe Page / Geneva, Switzerland / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Decentralized Semantic and Consent management.
• John Wunderlich / Toronto, Canada / EDT / JLINC Labs, IEEE Standards, Kantara Initiative, MyData Global / Information Sharing.
• John Walker / Bay Area, USA / PDT / SemanticClarity, CCI / OCA development and semantic interoperability.
• Davide / London, UK / GMT / MyData Global / Developing End2End solution architecture based on Data Commons and MyData Operator principles. 
• Lal Chandran / Stockholm, Sweden / CET / iGrant.io, MyData Operator, Data4Life Initiative for decentralised health data / Develop standards towards Open APIs for consented data exchange.
• Scott Whitmire / Scottsdale, AZ, USA / MST / Mayo Clinic / Making use of OCA to create IEEE standard and ToIP ecosystem for medical information (data and imaging).
• Michael Corning / OR, USA / PDT / Secours.io
• Alan Davies / Wales, UK / GMT / Credential Master
• Victoria Lemieux / Vancouver, Canada / PDT / Blockchain@UBC
• Anadi Pandharkar / Vancouver, Canada / PDT / Blockchain@UBC
• Burak Serdar / Denver, CO, USA / MST / Cloud Privacy Labs
• Marty Hummel / Cheshire, CT, USA / EDT / Optum
• Najah Naffah / Paris, France / CET / Blockchain Secure 
• Former user (Deleted) / Dorset, UK / GMT / Kantara Initiative
• Drummond Reed / Seattle, WA, USA / PDT / Evernym
• 吉村和人 / Tokyo, Japan / BTC Corporation
• Marie Wallace / Ireland / GMT / IBM Watson Health
• Mark Lizar / Canada / Open Consent Group
• Mike Bennett (Deactivated) / Wales, UK / GMT / Freelance Ontologist
• Mukund Parthasarathy / Bay Area, USA / PDT / SemanticClarity
• Nick Nayfack / San Francisco, CA, USA / PDT / Team Ikigai
• Salvatore D'Agostino / Boston, MA, USA / EDT / Open Consent Group
• sankarshan / Bengaluru, India / IST / Dhiway
• Subra Subramaniam / Bay Area, USA / PDT / CyberKnowledge
• Steven Milstein / Montreal, Canada / EDT / Colab Ventures
• Wenjing Chu / Bay Area, USA / PDT / Futurewei Technologies
• Zeljko Milinovic / Graz, Austria / CET / KNAPP
• Former user (Deleted) / Stockholm, Sweden / CET / Redfield

Additional Desired Outcomes:

Robert Mitwicki to build a generic template for prospective use cases to add to the DSWG wiki page.

Leadership positions:

(Note: We plan to instigate an official submissions, nominations and voting process. In the meantime, please put your name down if you are interested in volunteering for either a Chair or Vice-chair position.)

• Chair volunteers
  • Paul Knowles (Human Colossus Foundation)
• Vice-chair volunteers