Re: Absence of key scientific spatial data formats within common formats to implementation of Best Practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Agreed folks.
A nice outcome of this thread would be to see if we can find consensus on
the following statement

"A “Spatial Data on the Web” approach (for representing key scientific
spatial data formats) would be to provide more ways to interact with
simpler, but semantically expressive representations on the Web and then
follow links to the underlying data resource (e.g. netCDF, HDF, GRIB, etc.)
and (Web) applications that can be used to interact with such format(s)."

I would be happy to pursue the above agenda. Is there anyone else that
agrees/would like to comment?
Thank you for all participation.
Lewis

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Jon Blower <j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk>
wrote:

> +1 to everything Josh said. I think this is a great way to express what
> we’re trying to do, and not just with NetCDF. NetCDF is just an example of
> a (rather) community-specific format that the wider world can’t understand.
>
> Jon
>
> From: Joshua Lieberman <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 30 March 2016 18:54
> To: Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>
> Cc: Bill Roberts <bill@swirrl.com>, lewis john mcgibbney <
> lewismc@apache.org>, Bruce Bannerman <B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au>, SDW WG
> Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Absence of key scientific spatial data formats within common
> formats to implementation of Best Practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Resent-From: <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Wednesday, 30 March 2016 18:55
>
> One perspective to keep in mind is that a format such as NetCDF is
> amazingly capable, and not particularly accessible.Specifically, there is
> rarely a graduated approach to finding and using such a resource. Either
> you search for it, download it, and open it in a compatible application, or
> you don’t. A “Spatial Data on the Web” approach would be to provide more
> ways to interact with simpler, but semantically expressive representations
> on the Web and then follow links to both the full NetCDF resource and (Web)
> applications that can deal with it. Think of  a hurricane path prediction,
> with 100 million people looking at a simple graphic, 10,000 people viewing
> the NetCDF model coverage, and 1000 people actually pulling it into other
> models. How do we make that a Web and linked data process?
>
> Josh
>
>