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Overview

The Data Expert Group (DEG) is chartered to provide COVESA a single entity in which best practices and common approaches for connected vehicle data and interfaces are discussed , documented, and where appropriate, proved.  An industry driver is to facilitate, simplify, and reduce integration efforts on those things that are common to enable focus on new experiences, business opportunities and revenue streams.

The expert group will work under the oversight of the COVESA Technical Steering Team and will be organized to explore interactions with multiple Touchpoints (integration points) on its own as well as horizontally in support of other Expert Groups such as Electric Vehicle Charging Expert Group.  Touchpoints out-of-scope shall be tracked by the Technical Steering Team and may, from time to time, require analysis based on work done in other regulatory or standardization bodies.

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The group shall be organized around four pillars with existing activities (e.g. groups, projects and initiatives) mapped in as determined by the Board:

• Best Practices, Guidelines & Governance
• Data Modelindg / Ontologies
• Data Architecture / Infrastructure
• Interface Definition

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Figure 2 - Data Expert Group four pillars

Other Expert Groups will consult with, inform and consume work product from the four pillars.  The four pillars and associated work products/output are the responsibility of the DEG including informing how they are utilized and consumed by other EGs.  They are not the responsibility of the other Expert Groups.  In addition, not all EGs will require use of output from DEG.  As such, they will not require any dependency or interaction.

Charter

Board approved charter - 17 August 2022

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• Recruit Leadership - By September 2
  • Chair - Over all group Chair to lead the group
  • Co-Chair - Best Practices
    • Security
  • Co-Chair - Data Modeling and Ontologies
  • Co-Chair - Architecture/Infrastructure
  • Co-Chair - Interfaces
• Initial Meeting - By Sept 2
  • Establish priorities and cadence
• Communication Plan - By Sept 8
• October AMM Planning

Organization

Chairs

TBD

Participants

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• Group Co-Chair, Best Practices Lead - Erik Jaegervall
• Group Co-Chair - TBD 
• Architecture/Infrastructure Lead - Stephen Lawrence 
• VSS Lead - Adnan Bekan, Sebastian Schildt 
• VSC Lead - Tim Grieshammer
• Security and Privacy Lead - Joby Jester

Participants

BMW, Bosch, Mercedes, Renasas, Geotab, Amazon, Capgemini

Collaboration Tools

Slack

Join the data-expert-group channel on COVESA Community on Slack.

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30 August 2022

Attendees

• Adnan BekinBekan
• Erik Jaegervall
• Joby Jester
• Krishna Koppolu
• Paul Boyes
• Sebastian Schildt
• Stephen Lawrence
• Ted Guild
• Thomas Spreckley
• Tim Grieshammer

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