Status update - mid-July 2017

Hello participants of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group,

I thought I'd summarize the last couple of emails that Xueyuan sent to the mailing-list:

1. The Semantic Sensor Network Ontology has been published as a Candidate Recommendation (CR) last week:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-vocab-ssn-20170711/

Process-wise, the spec needs to remain in CR until 8 August 2017. It can then move forward to Proposed Recommendation, provided exit criteria have been met!


2. The charter of Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has been extended until 30 September 2017 to allow time for remaining specs to reach their final status:

- The Best Practices document as a final Working Group Note
- Time Ontology in OWL as a W3C Recommendation 
- SSN as a W3C Recommendation
- QB4ST as a final Working Group Note

There will not be any further extension, so expect me to ping you repeatedly until we're done if you're responsible for one of these documents! The expectation is that, apart from updates to implementation reports, minor editorial updates to specs and calls for consensus, the working group will be mostly dormant.


3. The draft charter for a possible Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group, set to achieve the W3C side of the Joint W3C/OGC Organizing Committee (JWOC), has been sent out to W3C Advisory Committee for review. If your organization is a W3C Member, please point your Advisory Committee Representative to the following online form:
 https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/sdwig-2017/

That review is important. The group cannot be created without enough support from W3C Members. The review is open until 25 August. Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,
Francois.

Received on Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:36:23 UTC