RE: SSN/O&M RE: [Minutes] 2016-02-09 F2F Day 2

I think the modularisation is more driven by a desire to support use of just a "bit" of the ontology. Deployment, for example,
may not be of interest to many people so it is better being easily separated. On the other hand some uses may want deployment but have no interest in the sensing mechanism nor data. 

Separating sensors and observations could  obviously be done -- but  would break the "skeleton" (SSO) design that closely links sensors to observations.  I'd like to hear Krzystof's view on this.

Kerry



-----Original Message-----
From: Raúl García Castro [mailto:rgarcia@fi.upm.es] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2016 4:07 AM
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Subject: Re: SSN/O&M RE: [Minutes] 2016-02-09 F2F Day 2

El 10/2/16 a las 0:25, Simon.Cox@csiro.au escribió:
>
>> <trackbot> action-140 -- Armin Haller to Clearly separate
> observation, sensor, and deployment parts of ssn -- due 2016-02-16 -- 
> OPEN
>
> Relating to this, not sure if y'all noticed my suggestion at the 
> bottom of my posting on Friday. I pointed out that for modularization 
> we could also consider the concern that is reflected in the OGC's 
> modularization - sensor descriptions (SensorML) vs observations (O&M)
> - aka producer vs consumer viewpoints. Is that what Action-140 is 
> about ?

Hi,

Regarding modularisation, I think that it is good since if supports usability and facilitates ontology evolution.

But I would go for a few modules. Simons' distinction between sensors
(providers) and observations (users) makes sense.

I'm not sure yet about also modularizing other things (such as deployment, as the SSN Tasks page/ACTION 140 says). I see the potential benefit but we are also inviting people to use only one (or several) of our modules and using their own modules for other parts of their data (e.g., using myDeploymentOntology instead of the SSNDeployment module), which would go a bit against the idea of standardization.

Kind regards,

-- 

Dr. Raúl García Castro
http://www.garcia-castro.com/


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