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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.

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 Modeling / Ontologies
• Data Architecture / Infrastructure
• Interface Definition

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

Action Items

• 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

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

Participants

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

Collaboration Channels

Calendar and 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 Channel 

COVESA Community Workspace Invite:

https://join.slack.com/t/covesacommunity/shared_invite/zt-1eul7g8g0-Kj9p~Guk4Khv3rlPUy5flw

Data Expert Group Channel:

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

Slack Channel

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

Mailing List

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

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

• Coordinate next meeting Erik Jaegervall 
  • Topics:
    
    • Way of working and deliverables
    • 6 month roadmap
    • AMM Presentation
    • Additional Group Co-Chair
• Communication plan Paul Boyes 
• October AMM Scedule
  • Create working copy for group Paul Boyes
  • Group to provide input and detail as to their thoughts @everybody