Re: person location

Thanks a lot Carl

I think the group appreciates your guidance on location specs

Location in the W3 schema outline drafted by Mandana is already used
for Organisation, but not for person, hence my comment. I presume your
suggestion applies to orgLoc as well as to perloc, if we decide to add
this attribute to P,
so your suggestions welcome either way, i guess

 the challenge for us would be to fit the location using the
appropriate standard into a simple tag/code
<personLocation> xyz

In your experience/understanding of the state of the art, whats the
best way to do it?

However, in my understanding on how schemas are used, we should only
be concerned at this stage in making a space
for Location (person, org, service, whatever), cause different people
may want to use different standards in there, that may also change,
but thats up to them, we just suggest a tag in the schema,  so that
that data can be provided in whatever format is available/preferred
would you agree?

PDM


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Carl Reed <creed@opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> If you are going to move into the person location discussion, then the group
> must consider the internet standards already in place and implemented by the
> internet infrastructure community. These standards are also being adopted
> for use in the Next Generation 9-1-1 system in the US. NENA is the
> coordinating group for all best practice and standards policy related to NG
> 9-1-1
>
> Check out www.ietf.org and look in ENUM, ECRIT, SIP, and GeoPriv Working
> Groups. GeoPriv is the core of this work. Also, the IETF coordinate with the
> Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in this particular topic area (location of the
> device/person).
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> To: "public-xg-eiif" <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:13 AM
> Subject: person location
>
>
>>
>> Person location is critical in delivering emergency
>> While the person ID/ age/ gender are all important, knowing their
>> exact/approximate (and indicative degree of approximation of) location
>> is an important piece of data for a number of reasons that I am sure I
>> dont have to discuss :-)
>>
>> We need to consider that mobile phones nowadays can automatically give
>> position, and our schema should be able to capture that information
>> that otherwise would be lost/not usable
>>
>> Location/Cell Based Services are already being designed/ implemented
>> that automatically capture distress signals and broadcast it to the
>> nearest stations,
>> It's about future proofing our work, I think
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paola Di Maio
>> School of IT
>> www.mfu.ac.th
>> *********************************************
>>
>
>



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Paola Di Maio
School of IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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