Hi all
Can I flag four issues that might be usefully covered regarding
Egeria.
These comments are limited to non‑personal data that could be or
has been legitimately published. That then removes GDPR and trade
secrets considerations, for instance.
1 Legal metadata and public information
Metadata handling could and perhaps should support:
For some background, the UK Ofgem regulator covers both the
Dublin Core and open licensing in their summary of recent public
consultation:
Indeed, there is a very considerable overlap in subject matter
between the regulatory work by Ofgem and the objectives set by
Egeria (as I understand them). I encourage people study Ofgem's
views when developing energy sector metadata processing
requirements — particularly if some public facing aspect is
desired (not that I have seen that provision yet articulated in
LFE materials). That more preliminary work from Ofgem is to be
backed up with more concrete decisions in 2022. And those
pronouncements will involve some mix of guidance, mandate, and
quite possibly legislative alignment.
The newly proposed EU
Data Act is similar in some regards and needs to be watched
also. That draft legislation covers business‑to‑government (B2G)
data sharing (such flows have yet to appear on LFE materials too).
In passing, the Icebreaker One Open Energy data platform supports
both trusted brokerage (under the "terms and conditions" that
Mandy mentioned) and open data dissemination (as per the
aforementioned work by Ofgem). The IB1 platform is subject to
English law. And legal metadata is at the very core of their
design.
2 The legal instruments that apply to the underpinning
standards
I will also follow this question up with an open source legal
network that I participate in and report back. Open standards are
not open software and different legal considerations may apply,
particularly if there ceases to be a maintained reference
implementation.
3 Data semantics
- metadata needs be formulated using a common semantic base to
be translatable (unless someone manages to stumble upon Douglas
Adam's fabled Babel Fish)
- to what degree are data semantics intended to be part of the
Egeria standards — or are data semantics and metadata
translation regarded as solely third‑party matters?
Either way, LFE will have to grasp that nettle.
4 Interactions with overlapping projects
Some potential overlaps (albeit highly incomplete):
- DBpedia Databus (with support for legal metadata)
- Icebreaker One Open Energy data platform (mentioned earlier)
- EnerMaps (more shortly)
- work within the Open Energy Modelling Initiative
These interactions are particularly important if Egeria
ultimately wants to succeed as a standard and fail as a project
(as Mandy indicated wistfully in her 20211202 webinar).
Stepping back, this general journey is, in my view, as much about
rapid decarbonization as it is about digitalization — indeed, the
two cannot be sensibly separated. My guess is also that European
utilities tend to embrace net‑zero 2050 more than do United States
utilities. For instance, the recent ENTSO‑E conference was
dedicated to that exact theme:
I mention just one project that perhaps overlaps with Egeria in
terms of large‑scale energy data and metadata handling in the LFE
context in a little more detail (simply because I attended a
recent seminar): the EnerMaps (was HoTMAPS) project:
Moreover, if LF Energy overlooks the decarbonization agenda (by
including and implicitly promoting the OSDU subsurface data
project by Shell Oil, Schlumberger, and others, for instance),
then the LFE project is less likely to succeed. I say that in a
constructive way, I hope. And as an observation, public interest
energy planning on all levels is probably much more established in
Europe than the United States (as I under public processes in that
jurisdiction) and those differences need to be recognized. And
more generally, in Europe and the UK, suitably‑licensed public
interest information flows are attracting increasing attention
from very many quarters (as covered earlier). The United States is
much better placed in regard to public sector information and
published data more generally, of course.
@Shuli: I worked hard to make this posting succinct, structured,
and relatively neutral in terms of framing, but also supported
with suitable arguments, information, and sources.
with best wishes, Robbie
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On 04/12/2021 00.53, Shuli Goodman
wrote:
First of all - Mandy thank you! What an excellent
and exciting project. You are a hero (honestly), moving the
world forward with Egeria. I know everyone was impressed.
@Mandy can you send a link to the deck for people
to download?
I think the next steps for us as a community are
to discuss how best to move froward. The general idea would be
to stand up an energy specific, power systems reference
implementation. Hans, I could tell you were jumping up and
down.
I don't have a lot of time before the end of the
year, but to gauge interest and keep the momentum going, I am
going to put out a few times in the next two weeks.
Here is the
Doodle. Please fill out
ASAP!
Thanks!
l.
shuli rose
goodman phd.
executive
director, LF
Energy
a Linux
Foundation
project
twitter: @LFE_Foundation
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