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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 Modeling / Ontologies
• Data Architecture / Infrastructure
• Interface Definition

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Figure 2 - Data Expert Group four pillars

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Action Items

Organization

Chairs

• Group Recruit Leadership - By September 2
• Chair - Over all group Chair to lead the group
Co-Chair- Erik Jaegervall
• Group 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

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

Participants

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

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Communication Channels

COVESA Community Calendar

The COVESA Community Calendar contains all open COVESA meetings.  

Data Expert Group Mailing List (Google Group)

https://groups.google.com/a/covesa.global/g/data-expert-group

Slack Channels

Data Expert Group Channel:

https://covesacommunity.slack.com/archives/C03V2HRC8HM

Slack Channel

Collaboration Tools

Slack

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

Join the COVESA Community on Slack if you have not already.

Mailing List

Coming soon

Meetings

Meeting Schedule

TBD

Meeting Notes

30 August 2022

Attendees

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

Notes

Walk through overview of Data Expert Group with question and answer

• Discussed mapping of existing activities to group (see diagram in Charter above).  Explained goal is not to disrupt current activities
• Discussed distinctions between Security, Privacy, and Personal Privacy.  Work to be done.
• Discussed ideas for desired next steps.

Identified and confirmed the following leadership:

• 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

Discussed October AMM schedule.

Next Steps/Action Items

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• Topics:
  
  • Way of working and deliverables
  • 6 month roadmap
  • AMM Presentation
  • Additional Group Co-Chair

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Meetings and Way of Working

Meeting Schedule

The Data Expert Group normally meets every Thursday at 16.00 CET (which most of the year equals 7.00 AM PST). Call-in details in the COVESA Calender. If a meeting is cancelled it shall typically be removed from the calendar and/or communicated on Slack. The meeting is primarily intended for members of the Data Expert Group.

Ticket system

The Data Expert Group use a GitHub project for managing tickets. Access to the project is restricted. Contact Paul Boyes if you need access.

Location of created Artifacts

• Use COVESA Wiki as main starting point for storing/finding information
• (UML) Diagrams (source and generated):
  • Shall be stored in github, either existing COVESA repo or dedicated Data Expert Group repository (covesa-architecture?)
  • Create new repo first when needed
• Powerpoint, Word and similar documents:
  • Use a well defined file share location on google drive
  • Reference from wiki as needed
  • Folder created

Weekly Agenda

See the Weekly Agenda and Meeting Notes page

Meeting Notes, etc...

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