Re: adding hypermedia to spatial data best practices

Hi Erik -

As one of the editors for the Best Practice doc, I will read through the
two resources you cite in the hope that there will be less for me to write
:-) ... seriously though, I will review and match your work against our
formative requirements. Holiday season is upon us so rate of progress might
be a little slow ...

Jeremy

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:32 Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your comments, do you have any pointers to the use of
> hypermedia concepts in action that you think might be useful illustrations
> for us ?
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 at 00:33 Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> hello.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-sdw-ucr-20150723/#BestPractices talks
>> about the possible contents of a "Spatial Data on the Web Best
>> Practices" document. it talks about recommending URIs as identifiers
>> (good!), and recommending or even specifying REST APIs for spatial data
>> on the web (good!). however, in between there should be explicit advice
>> about making spatial data on web "webby", by which i mean hypermedia.
>>
>> i have been working on two (incomplete) resources, one explaining what
>> "web data" is all about (https://github.com/dret/webdata), and the other
>> one being more detailed in terms of possible features of hypermedia
>> formats, and how they are supported in specific formats
>> (https://github.com/dret/hyperpedia).
>>
>> i am not sure how detailed the best practices document will be, but it
>> would be great to see it making at least some recommendations for
>> spatial data to be webby, and maybe even explaining a bit what that
>> actually entails.
>>
>> thanks and cheers,
>>
>> dret.
>>
>> ps: if there is a more appropriate forum to direct this feedback to
>> (specifically, some form of issue tracker), please kindly let me know.
>>
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>>
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