Re: WG discussion: proposal to remove BP2 - Provide context required to interpret data values

+1 to removal

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 12:22 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> Your list of requirements mean that I can't help but support BP 2's
> removal. However, I am sorry to say that this issue was not addressed in
> DWBP. The nearest advice would be DWBP 3, provide structural metadata
> (which refers to CSVW among other things), and BP 13 which is about
> locale neutral data (separate currency and value, rather than give a
> value as "£12.50" or whatever).
>
> I know that Dave Raggett (in cc) has been looking at the issue of UoM
> for WoT. The QUDT vocab is too heavy weight for his needs. He may have
> something else to add to this.
>
> That said, it does seem to me that SDW BP2 overlaps somewhat with BP1
> (which talks about CRS ad TRS as well) so I see why BP2 can go without
> too much loss.
>
> Phil
>
> On 27/02/2017 12:04, Jeremy Tandy wrote:
> > Hi - in this sprint for the BP document, the editors are proposing to
> > REMOVE BP2 [1].
> >
> > We think that:
> > 1/ this is not a spatial problem (and so is probably covered by DWBP
> > somewhere)
> > 2/ the current BP text is ambiguous and not actionable - what are we
> > telling people to do
> >
> > I recall that we had a _huge_ discussion about how to encode unit of
> > measurement (etc.) back in July 2016 ("Units of Measure (BP, SSN,
> > Coverages,Time?", see my summary post here [2]) but I don't think we drew
> > any actionable conclusions about Spatial Data?
> >
> > So, we will REMOVE BP2 ... unless someone can write content to make this
> > (i) specifically relevant to spatial data, (ii) actionable, and (iii)
> best
> > practice that is evident in the wild.
> >
> > WG members. What do you think?
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> > [1]: http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#provide-context
> > [2]:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2016Jul/0160.html
> >
>
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