RE: adding hypermedia to spatial data best practices

Jeremy,

A few years ago, there was a lot of interest in the Met Office in hypermedia and virtual reality (think Second Life) and we had a good working relationship with Exeter Uni over these topics.

On our side, the primary contact was Carlo Buontempo, and at the Uni was someone in the drama departments, who had good contacts with the 3d/haptic world, such as Prof. Mel Slater who was then in London.

The drama department were into hyper-opera, hyper-presentation, etc.

Contacts could be useful if some different and demanding (of bandwidth and CPU) use cases wanted.

Chris

From: Jeremy Tandy [mailto:jeremy.tandy@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 10:44 AM
To: Ed Parsons; Erik Wilde; public-sdw-comments@w3.org
Subject: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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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