Bill - flagging point 1 of Kerry's email. This is something you might
consider including in the edits on BP10. I've added a reminder to the
detailed plan [1].
Kerry. I'm working through the other points and will update shortly.
Jeremy
[1]:
https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Detailed_planning_BP_document#BP10:_Encoding_spatial_data
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 at 14:00 Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear BP editors,
>
> This relates to eo-qb issue-107 and issue-100.
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> I have revised EO-QB to make reference to its application of best
> practices, you might like to have a look. http://w3c.github.io/sdw/eo-qb/
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> As I did it, I spotted a few places where BP might like to reference
> EO-QB as examples.
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>
> *1. Balancing quality and cost*
>
> BP Encoding spatial data https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-bp/#semantic-thing
> needs an example for "Balancing quality and cost.” “For example, if using a
> Linked Data approach, one option is to keep all data in a triple store; but
> hybrid approaches are also possible, “ … This EO-QB could be the missing
> example, Say…
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>
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> In EO-QB satellite imagery metadata is stored in a triple store but
> observational data is stored in HDF5 and served through DGGS and query
> processing middleware that materializes RDF triples only in response to a
> SPARQL query for them.
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> *2.BP change over time*
>
> “Best Practice 6: Describe properties that change over time” I suppose
> EO-QB is an example of approach 3 “capturing a time-series of data values
> within an attribute of the spatial thing.” Although in eoqb he spatial
> thing itself (earth surface) is never really mentioned… I suggest “EO-QB”
> should be added to the list of includings in the following (although it is
> not quite a standard itself, but it uses the RDF datacube standard to do
> it) “Standard data encodings are available for time-series data,
> including: [TIMESERIESML <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#bib-TIMESERIESML>]
> for [GML <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#bib-GML>], plus [COVERAGE-JSON
> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#bib-COVERAGE-JSON>] and [SENSORTHINGS
> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#bib-SENSORTHINGS>] for JSON.”
>
>
>
> *3. section 6*
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> “Coverages: describing properties that vary with location (and time)"
> should reference EO-QB and COV-JSON.
>
> Note that COV_JSON uses the domain/range/range metadata model explicitly
> whereas in EO-QB this model is obscured by the primary conceptualisation
> as a 3-dimensional Data Cube.
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>
> *4. crossreferencing to UCR*
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> BP doc should crossreference req
> https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-ucr/#CoverageTemporalExtent from
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> http://w3c.github.io/sdw/bp/#desc-changing-properties
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> Cheers,
>
> Kerry
>