RE: W3C/OGC WG Launched!

Another possible consideration: 

JSON-LD is being talked about as a viable serialization format for RDF data - some folk are suggesting that it will soon be the default, thus also helping with RDF's developer-acceptability problem. In which case, the issue of overlaps between LOCN, GeoJSON, and other RDF vocabularies becomes more urgent and maybe more tractable. 

I am aware that the GeoJSON team has some thoughts around moving CRS support into a "-LD" extension to GeoJSON [1]. Now while the GeoJSON team are mostly concerned with the encoding, lets please make sure that the implications of this option to the RDF view is considered. I'm not yet familiar enough with JSON or JSON-LD to tease it out, so I hope someone else maybe has the knowledge and motivation. 

[1] https://github.com/geojson/geojson-ld/issues/27 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Perego [mailto:andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu] 
Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2015 12:44 AM
To: Frans Knibbe | Geodan
Cc: LocAdd W3C CG Public Mailing list
Subject: Re: W3C/OGC WG Launched!

Very good news indeed!

I do agree with Frans that it would be important to consolidate the LOCN voc, so that it can be used as an input to the SDW WG.

I'm going to open a separate thread on this.

Cheers,

Andrea


On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:
> Hello Phil,
>
> Excellent news! A lot has been going on in getting spatial data to 
> work on the web, but that work is quite fragmented. I hope the new 
> workgroup will serve as a focal point for many interrelated efforts. 
> Thank you for your contributions in making this happen! I guess it wasn't the easiest of tasks.
>
> And I am sure the LOCN vocabulary can play an important role, 
> providing low-threshold semantics for location data. All the more 
> reason to take the job of maintaining the vocabulary seriously.
>
> Some of the things that come to mind as things we can give some extra 
> attention to this year:
>
> Finish the task of providing explanatory text in multiple languages; 
> Finish the proposal for adding CRS and spatial resolution to the 
> vocabulary; Solicit experiences from people in the field who are using 
> the vocabulary and see if this gives reasons for change or consolidation.
>
> Regards,
> Frans
>
> On 2015-01-06 17:28, Phil Archer wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As you may have seen an hour or so ago, the much talked about 
> collaboration between W3C and OGC is under way!
>
> The two standards bodies issued a joint press release today and, if 
> you're eligible, obviously we'd be delighted if you were to join the working group.
>
> Relevant Links:
>
> The press release
> http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4287
>
> The Working Group
> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/
>
> OGC have analogous pages too of course.
>
> Something of particular relevance to the LOCADD CG is that the charter 
> for this new WG is sufficiently flexible that it could potentially 
> provide a vehicle for more formal standardisation of the LOCN vocab.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
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