Re: Notes from INSPIRE 2014

Hello all,

I was not present in Aalborg, so I thank Andrea and Michael for the report!

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?

Regards,
Frans


On 2014-06-27 11:01, Andrea Perego wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Last week some of us were in Aalborg for the INSPIRE 2014 conference,
> and we would like to share some notes on what happened, in particular
> on topics relevant to the LOCADD CG. Please note that we're reporting
> our personal understanding, so we would kindly ask who was there to
> correct and/or extend these notes.
>
> First of all, W3C and OGC jointly organised a workshop [1], concerning
> LGD'14 and the joint W3C/OGC working group on Spatial Data on the Web.
>
> The workshop raised a lot of interest (around 150 people attended),
> and it was co-chaired by Phil Archer (W3C), Bart De Lathouwer (OGC),
> Alex Coley (DEFRA) and Ed Parsons (Google). Overall, the feedback from
> the audience was very positive.
>
> Basically, the discussion was about the charter of the joint W3C/OGC
> WG and, in particular, on the deliverables listed in Section 4. There
> was a general agreement on the importance of the first 2 ones (UC&Rs
> and BPs), and a lot of discussion on their actual scope and
> objectives. About the other deliverables, the one considered as
> relevant was the  Time Ontology or, more in general, the
> representation of time.
>
> About the general scope of the WG, Clemens noted that, also based on
> the name of the WG, it should be not only on LD, but, more in general,
> on the use of Web technologies for geo data. Again, it should be about
> "linking" geo data. There was a general consensus from the audience on
> this statement.
>
> @Phil, @Clemens, did we get it right? Nothing to add?
>
> Interestingly, this point was confirmed during the Linked / Open Data
> sessions [2-4], where in many cases LD was seen not as a goal, but
> rather as a means to bring geo data on the Web, for a number of
> reasons - e.g., in order to make them discoverable by using Web
> technologies, accessible to a broader, cross-domain audience (citizens
> included), and to better link and integrate them with other data
> (including crowd-sourced data). So, there was a lot of discussion on
> data formats, complexity, interoperability, and on what is missing to
> effectively use geo data on the Web.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea & Michael
>
> ----
> [1]http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2014/page/wsl#c_40_233
> [2]http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2014/page/oral#c_16
> [3]http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2014/page/oral#c_22
> [3]http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2014/page/oral#c_34
>


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