Re: General comments on UCR doc

Lars-

On 05/29/15 20:43, Svensson, Lars wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:58 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>  
>> On 05/27/15 10:37, Svensson, Lars wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 10:26 AM, Andrea Perego wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> much agreed, but I'd turn it around:
>>>>> Spatiotemporal data must be processable independently from their format
>>>> (while
>>>>> recognizing that the amount of metadata available in each format varies).
>>>> I tend to agree. But it's unclear to me how this will be implemented,
>>>> in practice. E.g., would this require that applications should be able
>>>> to consume spatial data irrespective of their format?
>>> Is the requirement that client and server need to be able to negotiate the
>> format? If so, what exactly is the format. I guess it's not the media-type (e. g.
>> RDF/XML, Turtle, ...) but something more like an RDF Shape [1]. I think we need
>> to interact with the W3C data shape WG on this. There has been some
>> discussion on shape negotiation on the LOD list [2] that I sparked off a few
>> weeks ago, but there has been no consensus on the matter yet.
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/
>>> [2] Long thread starting at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
>> lod/2015May/0034.html
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>> FWIW, in OGC we use MIME types indeed for the coverage formats (such as
>> "image/tiff")
> OK, so I guess there is no need to negotiatio profiles/shapes there.

right, I don't think so. If future shows a need then contents negotiation can be
extended using the straightforward (and quite powerful) methods available. Up to
now, however, I have not heard of anyone requiring this, and in particular
cannot see any need for profiles.

-Peter

>
> Best,
>
> Lars 
>

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