Re: discoverability and crawlability

Hi Frans,

I think we are trying to express the issue that Geospatial information
because of the way it has been published/shared up until this point is not
discoverable in the way say ascii, csv, or even pdf is.  It is less to do
with missing standards as to best practice in terms of publishing at a
granular level data with uri's and not publishing using opaque service
interfaces.

Ed



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On 29 April 2015 at 09:54, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In trying to arrive at a lean and mean list of requirements in the UCR
> document I am now pondering on two requirements: discoverability
> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/UseCases/SDWUseCasesAndRequirements.html#Discoverability>
> and crawlability
> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/UseCases/SDWUseCasesAndRequirements.html#Crawlability>.
> They are in the UCR draft now, but I wonder if they should stay there.
> Neither requirement seems to be particularly spatial, so are they in scope?
> Or are they yet another example of non-functional requirements (that would
> be good to pass on to the Data on the Web Best Pracices Working Group)?
>
> Could we replace these two requirements with a requirement that says
> something like "Spatial data on the web should be recognizable as spatial
> data"?  I think spatial data at the moment are worse off in this respect
> when compared to other basic data types, like text, numbers, or images,
> because there is no widely adopted standard yet that allows one to state
> that a particular thing is a spatial thing. If there would be, that would
> be benificial for both discoverability and crawlability.
>
> Regards,
> Frans
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