General comments on UCR doc

Dear Frans, dear Alejandro,

I’m including below some general comments to the UCR document.

Cheers,

Andrea

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1. I don't see a requirement about the fact that spatial data must be
available in multiple formats. This is something that popped-up quite
frequently during the discussions in Barcelona, and it is implied by a
number of requirements.  I think this is something that must be
explicitly and clearly stated, and it goes together with the
linkability requirement, as both are key principles for the Web
architecture.

2. Many of the requirements may apply both to data and metadata. It
would be useful to clarify the use of "data" in the UCR document:
whether it applies only to data, or to metadata as well.

3. Req 5.42 - Spatial metadata: This requirement is missing the
"temporal" dimension, that is implied in a number of related UCs. See
also my mail https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Apr/0123.html
I suggest we revise the bullet list as follows:
- coordinate reference system(s) -> spatial and temporal reference system(s)
- spatial extent -> spatial and temporal extent
- spatial resolution -> spatial and temporal resolution
BTW, in my understanding, this requirement is already implying quite a
few of those we have at the moment in the UCR doc - as bbox and
centroid, crawlability, discoverability, multilingual support, spatial
and temporal vagueness, time series, valid time, nominal temporal
references, etc. I’m just thinking aloud, but I wonder whether we
should keep a separate requirement for metadata. At least, in the
current version of the UCR doc, the scope of this should be clarified.

4. Req 5.6 - Crawlability: This requirement should concern both to
data and metadata. See also points (2) and (3) above.


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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/

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Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 23:11:33 UTC