- From: Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:37:50 -0400
- To: Jens de Smit <jens.desmit@surfnet.nl>
- Cc: public-poiwg@w3.org
> Also, the governing of > service descriptors is probably a task that should have its own charter > as it would not do to have that task end with the conclusion of this > group's charter. Currently, the POI group seemed the closest existing target, but it's clear that the group's focus is much more AR than geo-POI. I'm trying to determine an appropriate home... > > I'm not very familiar with the field but isn't there a group in the > semantic web community that concerns itself with standardising > classifications such as these? I haven't found one, but that probably shows my lack of semantic web knowledge... > If not, should we start one (separate > from the POI/AR WG)? I think this would be quite useful. Right now, in my opinion, the field is a mess. We have rank amateurs making things up one by one in OpenStreets, and we have professionals (like the Census) maintaining the NAICS list, but the latter is only a subset of what's needed since it deals with businesses and is meant for tax and statistics, not tourists. It is possible that the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) is relevant, but none of their existing standards address this issue, and the service labeling goes beyond GIS systems. (For example, it's obviously a way to tag web pages, rather than just map objects.) In general, the OGC efforts probably deserve more attention even in the AR community, as there's likely to be overlap on the geometry and time-related side of things. I'm not familiar with the W3 process, but if there's a way to start a "BOF" to gauge interest, private advice would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Jens > >
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