- From: Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:14:41 +0200
- To: Andreas Harth <harth@kit.edu>, Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois.86@gmail.com>, "Svensson, Lars" <L.Svensson@dnb.de>, Joshua Lieberman <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>
- Cc: SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
Hi, Andreas. On 23/09/2016 01:03, Andreas Harth wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/22/16 22:32, Maxime Lefrançois wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> my two cents: >> >> >>> Particular serializations of both the feature and geometry data can >>> be >> negotiated either way, I >>> think. If one request a feature with contentType >>> application/rdf+xml; geomdata=“WKTLiteral”, then the geometry if >>> requested / returned >> should include an >>> asWKT. >> >> While I agree that this would be very handy indeed, I don't think >> http allows that kind of syntax in the Accept-header, at least not >> for all media types and certainly not for application/rdf+xml >> >> >> using >> >> Accept: application/rdf+xml;geomdata="WKTLiteral" >> >> Would be perfectly ok as per RFC 2045 and updated by RFC 2184. But >> parameter geomdata is neither defined as a required, nor as an >> optional parameter in media type application/rdf+xml. >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/rdf+xml >> >> What could be possible on the other hand, would be to define a new >> media type such as application/geomdata+rdf+xml for instance (not >> sure if the use of two '+' would be allowed, I can ask. and to >> register it following https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2004/0430-mime > > a straightforward alternative is to give the geometry a URI and do > plain content negotiation. Problem solved. I'm also in favour of this approach, although I recognise we should provide guidance even for use cases where geometries are embedded in RDF graphs. > I do not understand why people would bend over backwards to put > possibly very large GML/WKT/KML data (or other "binary" content) in > RDF literals. > > Cheers, > Andreas. > > PS. FWIW, it would be useful to have a IANA-registered content type > for WKT and GML [1]. KML and GeoJSON have one. +1. Makes perfect sense to me. -Andrea > [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml > -- Andrea Perego, Ph.D. Scientific / Technical Project Officer European Commission DG JRC Directorate B - Growth and Innovation Unit B6 - Digital Economy Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262 21027 Ispra VA, Italy https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ ---- The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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