- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:42:19 +0100
- To: "Heaven, Rachel E." <reh@bgs.ac.uk>, Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
- CC: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, Linda van den Brink <l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl>, Riccardo Albertoni <albertoni@ge.imati.cnr.it>, "'public-sdw-comments@w3.org'" <public-sdw-comments@w3.org>
Dear all, Just a brief note about this, to 1: thank you for the input! 2: warn you that we've noted an action [1] on creating an example with DQV that shows how we could represent your case. This may go as far as creating a specific instance of dqv:Dimension for granularity/precision. Cheers, Antoine [1] https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/track/actions/264 On 3/9/16 2:37 PM, Heaven, Rachel E. wrote: > Noting also that in the latest version of ISO 19115 (ISO 19115-1:2014) the spatial resolution of a dataset can also be expressed as a vertical distance, an angular distance (gco:Angle), or as levelOfDetail (gco:CharacterString), in addition to the previous options of distance (=horizontal ground distance) or equivalent scale. > > Cheers, > Rachel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Perego [mailto:andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu] > Sent: 09 March 2016 10:23 > To: Antoine Isaac > Cc: Phil Archer; Linda van den Brink; Riccardo Albertoni; 'public-sdw-comments@w3.org' > Subject: Re: Data Quality Vocab for SDW > > Hi, Antoine. > > I can contribute a use case concerning geospatial metadata. > > One of the information that is typically included concerns the spatial resolution of a dataset. This is expressed either by a distance - e.g., data have a 1km resolution - or with an equivalent scale (i.e., a > fraction) - e.g., 1:1,000,000. > > I include below two XML code snippets to show how this is expressed in ISO 19115: > > > Spatial resolution as distance (1,000 m): > > <gmd:spatialResolution> > <gmd:MD_Resolution> > <gmd:distance> > <gco:Distance > uom="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#m">1000</gco:Distance> > </gmd:distance> > </gmd:MD_Resolution> > </gmd:spatialResolution> > > > > Spatial resolution as equivalent scale (1:1,000,000): > > <gmd:spatialResolution> > <gmd:MD_Resolution> > <gmd:equivalentScale> > <gmd:MD_RepresentativeFraction> > <gmd:denominator> > <gco:Integer>1000000</gco:Integer> > </gmd:denominator> > </gmd:MD_RepresentativeFraction> > </gmd:equivalentScale> > </gmd:MD_Resolution> > </gmd:spatialResolution> > > > Property dct:conformsTo (or a specific subproperty to be defined) can be > used to specify the spatial resolution of a dataset / distribution, but > three things are missing: > > 1. How to model the notion itself of (spatial) resolution. > > 2. How to express in RDF quantity values (e.g., 1m, 2km, 3s, 4h, 5l) and > fractions. > > 3. How to glue #1 and #2 > > Actually, solutions exist to address point #2 - as the QUDT vocabulary > [1] mentioned during our first joint call [2]. But, to the best of my > knowledge, there's currently no best practice on how to use them. > > This situation is also the reason why in GeoDCAT-AP the decision taken > was to dump spatial resolution into a free-text field - a provisional > "mapping" meant to be replaced in the future with a more appropriate > approach. > > > So, looking at DQV, I wonder whether dqv:QualityMeasure (and the related > properties and classes) are generic enough to model also this > information. E.g. (just trying): > > > a:Dataset dqv:hasQualityMeasure [ a dqv:QualityMeasure ; > dqv:hasMetric :spatialResolutionAsEquivalentScale ; > dqv:value "0.000001"^^xsd:decimal ] . > > > another:Dataset dqv:hasQualityMeasure [ a dqv:QualityMeasure ; > dqv:hasMetric :spatialResolutionAsDistanceInMetres ; > dqv:value "1000"^^xsd:decimal ] . > > > Not sure this is correct. In particular, it is unclear to me whether > this is the correct way (in DQV) of modelling the notions of resolution, > distance / equivalent scale, and units of measurement. In the examples > above, they are all merged together in one instance of dqv:Metric - > which, besides resulting in a strange N-headed beast (formally > speaking), is not scalable. > > > A final (general) note: > > In my understanding, spatial (as well as temporal) resolution can be > considered as a specific type of data granularity. From this > perspective, and in order to ensure consistency and interoperability, it > would be desirable to have a DQV-based approach to model the general > notion of granularity, that could then be used as a basis for specific > types (as spatial / temporal resolution). > > > Cheers, > > Andrea > > ---- > [1]http://www.qudt.org/ > [2]https://www.w3.org/2016/02/17-sdw-minutes > > > On 07/03/2016 08:08, Antoine Isaac wrote: >> Dear Phil, Linda, >> >> Thanks a lot for this. This is in fact quite an important requirement; >> I've flagged it as an issue at >> https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/track/issues/243 >> >> It may however take some time to come back to you, as we still have many >> issues. Actually we had granularity in scope, when we started with DQV. >> But this was downplayed as the DWBP requirements were very vague then. >> Do you have some precise examples from SDW, i.e. showing what data would >> look like, and its problems? >> >> Best, >> >> Antoine >> >> On 3/3/16 10:46 AM, Phil Archer wrote: >>> Antoine, Riccardo, >>> >>> As Antoine will recall, the Spatial Data WG, here represented by >>> Linda, has a particular interest in the DQV. An issue that comes up a >>> lot in spatial datasets is that of precision and accuracy (the fact >>> that Magna Carta was signed in 1215 is accurate, just not very >>> precise, saying it was signed at 1215-06-15T00:00:00 is precise but >>> inaccurate). It occurs in general datasets too but it's particularly >>> acute for spatial. >>> >>> On last night's SDW call, I was asked to put you in touch with linda >>> specifically to talk about this, in particular, how you might express >>> these ideas in the DQV? >>> >>> >>> Process note: I'm archiving this in the SDW's public comment list to >>> avoid having to sign you all up to yet another mailing list. >>> >>> For tracker this is ACTION-149 >>> >> > > -- > Andrea Perego, Ph.D. > Scientific / Technical Project Officer > European Commission DG JRC > Institute for Environment & Sustainability > Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data > Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262 > 21027 Ispra VA, Italy > > https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ > > ________________________________ > This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. 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