- From: Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:04:48 -0700
- To: <public-locadd@w3.org>
Hi Andrea, >> Well, personally, I haven't seen something like the emergence of two >> "schools" - actually, my impression is that we are all still following >> our own "personal" school, when dealing with the use of SemWeb >> technologies in the geo domain (and I'm not saying that this is >> necessarily a bad thing). What I saw is an increasing amount of work >> on the use of LD as a way to bridge geo technologies with Web >> technologies, but, in my understanding, there's no homogeneity on how >> this is done. The approach used depends on the use case, and this can >> be seen just going through the presentations of the 2 LD sessions. This seems like good news to me. IMHO, the great chance here is to use Linked Data as interchange layer. In most cases, there is no reason and no need to change the internal mechanics of existing SDI/cyber-infrastructures as long as all of them can also expose their data as LD, e.g., via transparent proxies. Best, Krzysztof On 06/30/2014 01:21 AM, Andrea Perego wrote: > Hi, Frans > >> [snip] >> >> I was not present in Aalborg, so I thank Andrea and Michael for the report! > > A pleasure! > >> I wonder how to interpret the concluding remark: "The impression we got is >> that, although there is still interest in replicating geo standards with Semantic Web technologies, the idea of >> "bringing geo data on the Web" seems to be the prevalent trend in the >> INSPIRE community." >> >> This seems to show that there are two schools of thought that have some >> differences. Is it possible to describe those differences, or to give some >> examples? > > Well, personally, I haven't seen something like the emergence of two > "schools" - actually, my impression is that we are all still following > our own "personal" school, when dealing with the use of SemWeb > technologies in the geo domain (and I'm not saying that this is > necessarily a bad thing). What I saw is an increasing amount of work > on the use of LD as a way to bridge geo technologies with Web > technologies, but, in my understanding, there's no homogeneity on how > this is done. The approach used depends on the use case, and this can > be seen just going through the presentations of the 2 LD sessions. > > Andrea > -- Krzysztof Janowicz Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 5806 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
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