Governance document

[FranckCo]

Governance document is part of the deliverables that should be produced by the COOS activity.

[FranckCo]

Decided during 22 Feb. call: assign to Zoltán.

[zoltanvereczkei]

Based on governance documents we analysed, here is our proposal for the content of the governance document:

1. Introduction:
• a generic overview and definition of core ontology
• context of the particular work of the COOS team (?)
• a few sentences on the aim of this document

2. Scope and statistical potential:
• what is its main purpose of ontology, how ontology comes into the “big picture”
• what does COOS cover (and what not)
• what is the real potential in ontology for a statistical organisation (why we should consider using it and start investing in the area of ontology)

3. Basic principles of core ontology governance:
• leaders of the governance will be listed with their description, definition, which rules the governance activity in this area

4. Process of core ontology governance:
• process and process steps for this activity will be determined and the definitions, descriptions as well
• decision points will be highlighted

5. Stakeholders, roles, responsibilities:
• the stakeholders of COOS will be introduced and their tasks and responsibilities
• this chapter is in close connection with the previous one, which is about the process.

6. Annex:
• list of concepts and explanations

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QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:

1. Do we understand governance well? Who are the addressees of the governance document? National Statistial Offices, in our opinion but maybe this is not the opinion of the whole group. Maybe also others?

2. Communicating the importance, value of ontology in a very easy way is expected I believe. The Executive Board also mentioned this aspect at its last meeting. In my opinion, this communication thing is not part of the governance document (at least not "traditionally" as we have not found any example that contained such material). There are 2 chapters with communcation potential though (1 & 2). So is this something additional to what we have planned for the group? Or should that be part of the governance anyway? Should we open a separate issue for this? Address this later?

[FlavioRizzolo]

I still don't understand what we mean by governance in the COOS context.

Is it going to be different from GSIM, GSBPM and other ModernStats models? Are we talking about change management or something else? Extension mechanisms?

[zoltanvereczkei]

Based on the discussions at our last COOS meeting, we propose to divide the governance document into 3 main parts. Content for each part is added as a discussion forum. Please click on the indicated number for each part to access the content. Discussion for each part is ongoing on its dedicated page.

1. Foundations of COOS: [LOCKED] COOS governance document: Part 1: Foundations of COOS -> please go to: https://github.com/linked-statistics/COOS/issues/25 #36
2. Key COOS principles: [LOCKED] COOS governance document: Part 2: Key COOS principles -> please go to: https://github.com/linked-statistics/COOS/issues/25 #37
3. Process of COOS: [LOCKED] COOS governance document: Part 3: Process of COOS -> please go to: https://github.com/linked-statistics/COOS/issues/25 #53

Please check the content for each part on the discussion forum page and provide comments there!

[FranckCo]

The content of the governance policy has partially been taken over by the Supporting Standards Group. What part do we keep at COOS level?

[zoltanvereczkei]

As we agreed at our last meeting, please find a very first draft version of the ontology in Google Docs here:

Please provide comments to the draft on the Google Docs version available here:

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[FranckCo]

Governance document translated to Markdown/HTML.
Proof-reading needed, and figure 1 is missing.

[zoltanvereczkei]

The Google Docs version of the governance document is now final (version "draft 1.0 for internal review"). All comments, changes are included and final. @FranckCo can you help with the HTML creation again? Sorry for the double work with this...

[FranckCo]

Zoltan to feed last modifications back in GitHub document.

[zoltanvereczkei]

Here is the new Governance document in Markdown/HTML format. This is fully in-line now with the draft v0.3 version of the documents (as of 28th September 2021).

[zoltanvereczkei]

Figure 1 attachment:

[FranckCo]

We now have a document ready for ready for review, so closing this issue.