Whisper from the sidelines...

Dear all,

I am delighted to see so much activity in this CG - it's very 
encouraging to see such detailed discussion. To encourage its 
continuation I'd like to highlight a couple of things:

1. This Community Group may make additions to the locn schema, and add 
clarifications to the existing term definitions. (NB. we are very keen 
to see multilingual labels on all schemas in w3.org space.)

2. You have a wiki and the ability to publish documents.

3. What we won't allow is for any term to be deleted or any substantive 
change to its semantics. You can, however, deprecate any term.

4. As I think everyone here is aware, we have a workshop coming up in 
March [1] which is a joint effort between OGC, W3C, Ordnance Survey, the 
UK Government (specifically its Linked Data WG chaired by DEFRA's Alex 
Coley) and Google. We are of course in close contact with Andrea and 
Michael at the JRC on the event too. The number of expressions of 
interest I have already received is approaching 50 - this is going to be 
a big event.

5. What we don't know is what the outcome of that workshop will be. 
Indeed, that's the point of workshop - to find out what needs to be done 
and by whom. An incomplete list of possibilities is:

- a new, fully chartered working group, able to create W3C 
Recommendations, potentially joint-branded as OGC standards;
- the inverse of that - i.e. an OGC WG whose outputs may end up being 
jointly branded as W3C (we'll let the lawyers sort that out!);
- additional support, i.e. recruits, for this community group;
- the formation on a separate CG or a chartered Interest Group (an IG 
can have staff time allocated, can produce Notes, has access to Zakim etc.)

Let's use the current energy and the upcoming workshop to continue to 
build momentum towards better integration of geospatial and linked data.

Phil.


[1] http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/

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Phil Archer
W3C Data Activity Lead
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/

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Received on Monday, 30 December 2013 10:24:32 UTC