Re: [sdw] Homogeneity of an ObservationCollection

Thanks @srodriguez142857 

Your responses (a) and (b) confirm my expectations - an `ObservationCollection` as described in the proposed extension is a useful concept. 

Your response (c) is also useful, As a general purpose x-domain model, SSN/SOSA provides a standard vocabulary meeting some common requirements, and the extension is also cast in this light. But it is unlikely to comprehensively satisfy the full needs of any specific application, so extensions are to be expected. The particular aspect that you analyse - how far up the chain to the ultimate-feature-of-interest? - is valid, but there is not a single answer and it is hard to imagine how this might be satisfied in a compact form to satisfy all the imaginable use-cases. So I would suggest that you use SSN/SOSA and SSN-EXT as a jumping-off point - use the standard words where they apply, and introduce new ones where they don't. 

There is also an important point that, in the end, it is the data-provider's prerogative to supply their data in the way that they understand it and to the level of detail that they choose. And it is the data-user's prerogative to re-interpret it and use it as they choose, within the limitations of any license. 

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