Internet of Production

Apr 20, 2022

Open Know-Where Working Group Meeting 22.4.20 - Minutes

Glossary:

OKW - Open Know-Where

WG - Working Group

Attendance :

Barbara Schack, Internet of Production Alliance
Max Wardeh Internet of Production Alliance
Minutes: Ronald Tumuhairwe, Internet of Production Alliance

List of Attendees:

Anna Sera Lowe, Manufacturing Change
Ben Oldfrey, University College London
Pierre Alexis, MakerNet

Agenda:

Introduction
Status update
Roadmap for the OKW Standard and working group
Next meeting

Action points:

Action Anna - Contact OKW working group members with an update and invitation to continue
Action Barbara - Make sure the standard is mentioned in the May 5th GDDF panel discussion

Minutes:

Introduction:

Round of introductions
Reminder of Goal of the meeting: to draft a proposal for a roadmap for the OKW standard and WG

Status update:

Governance: the method of communication decided at the last OKW WG meeting was the #iop-okw slack channel.
Progress update: The standard is in active use by Field Ready. The first round of OKW Data awardees is in progress. A "1 year since launch" webinar is in
preparation for June. The Makernet/Cosmyx 3D printers publish their OKW profiles.

Funding:

Sloan Foundation, which covers maintenance and adoption. Targets:

o Adoption: 2-3 rounds of OKW Dataawards. 150,000 points of interest mapped

o Maintenance: defining and implementing a process for maintenance of the standard

MaKe project

Roadmap for the OKW Standard and the OKW working group:

Workstreams:

Validation/Maintenance of the data:

o Find the right balance between quality and quantity of data. Around 18% of data collected so far has been unusable (duplicates or low quality). Discussion on what is a minimum level of quality to be validated into the dataset.

▪ Anna: we never envisioned that all data points would be collected: very few fields are required (4)

▪ Ben: we could label the data to indicate validation status: validated (+time limit?)/unvalidated

▪ Max: does the current validation rule match with usefulness?

▪ Ben: is there any evidence of usefulness? Use cases, blogs (see notes on adoption below)

o Usability of the standard: a validator form to build?

▪ Maintaining the standard itself:

           o   What happens when a change request is made? Tools for the process are being built in the processes WG. On the governance of the                 approval processes, this is to be defined by each community.
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               ▪ Suggestion to be put to the Governance task force: build a basic structure that each working group can be built off from
               ▪ Ask: Is there someone from OKW community interested in joining the Processes WG?

o Making sure the OKW standard that is published is up to date as it is migrated to Pubpub.

▪ Adoption: strengthening uptake and collecting evidence

o Communication:

               ▪ 1-year webinar: planned for early June.
               ▪ Blog posts, interviews, use cases

                    ❖ OSM Uganda

❖ Nepal makerko

❖ Documenting OKW data awardee's journey

o Creating implementation guides for different sectors: Interviews with people who have been using it and using these interviews to build guides on using the standard in various contexts
o Tools:

▪ Building a data visualization tool and promoting it
▪ Self-submission form

Needs of the working group: