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Plenary August, 2021-08-04

Agenda

  1. Attendees and Apologies

    • Please note: Attendees to be generated from Teams – please check the minutes for any corrections

  2. AGM

    1. Reminder of the Terms of Reference (ToR) and PID Domain Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
      • Please note: These documents are intended to be changed to support more formal participation and cessation of participation this year, however the current documents will apply for this AGM.
      • https://github.com/AGLDWG/docs
    2. Election of office holders
    3. Linked Data project presentations

  3. AGM closes

Monthly Plenary

  1. Previous minutes
  2. Welcoming and introduction to new members
  3. Follow-up on previous meeting's Action Items
  4. Agency and Project Presentations
  5. General business
  6. Next meeting details
  7. Monthly Plenary closes

Minutes

Chair: John Machin
Notes: Nicholas Car

1. Attendees and Apologies

Alexander Hanysz
Jonathan Yu
Irina Bastrakova
Len Smith

4. Agency and Project Presentations

This section of the meeting brought forward

  • Laurent Lefort - ABS
  • Nataliya Katsman - Tas State Growth
  • Andrew Fitzgerald - Finance
  • Armin Haller - ANU
  • Richard Walker - ARDC (PID system project report)
  • Shyni Sasikala - Geoscience Australia

2. AGM

Position holder election

Self-nominees for 2021/2022:

  • John Machin
  • Nicholas Car
  • Armin Haller
  • Nataliya Katsman

Bernadette Hyland-Wood promises to help but not nominate formally, not being a government employee.

Larent Lefort indicates that he would like to assist more with WG activities as his ABS role evolves to engaged with external organisations more.

There being no further nominees for position holders, and no dissent, the group elected the 4 self nominees to the Co-Chair position by acclamation.

3. AGM closes

1. Previous minutes

See https://github.com/AGLDWG/meeting-minutes/blob/master/plenary-2021-07-01.md

x. Discussion about AGLDWG website

John Machin indicates we (the WG) would like to update the WG's website. Please make suggestions via the mailing list.

2. Welcoming and introduction to new members

Heather Ford - UTS - interested in KG ethics as a research direction.

3. Follow-up on previous meeting's Action Items

Nick indicates he will present on Linked Data catalogues at the September meeting.

5. General business

  • Lots of discussion about the proposed updates to the WG's ToR & MoU. Co-chairs indicate that the proposals will be circulated before the September WG meeting.
  • Bernadette indicates that Qld GovHack is on soon and she will desibe this on the mainling list.
  • A long discussion about https://api.gov.au compared with https://data.gov.au
    • Michael Hodgkin presented insider information about the goals of api.gov.au - it's aiming to list all the governmetn APIs already out there
    • who contributes data to data .gov.au?
      • Dept Finance does, directly
      • other agencies do via data.gov.au reading from agency's own catalogues
      • Caleb Stone reported on data.govt.nz - it's value proposition is that the central catalogue makes other lists (catalogues) of data discoverable
    • discussion about the ONDC's register of datasets of National Significance

6. Next meeting details

Thursday, 2nd of September, 3pm Canberra time.

7. Monthly Plenary closes