Re: Group endorses SOSA being taken up by schema.org

Thanks Armin, Simon and all. It is good to have this resolved by the WG,
and I note also the various qualifying comments and concerns in the
discussions on the WG list. As Simon points out, Schema.org comes with its
own heritage/legacy of terms and structures. For example we also already
have two mechanisms for describing quantities (see
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1390#issuecomment-252202548
and nearby). There is also interest in figuring out a story for how
high-level descriptions of datasets relate to their actual data contents
(cf. W3C CSVW and also W3C Data Cube, which has some bearing on the
observation/measurement topic). All of which is just to say that whatever
we do in Schema.org may not be entirely 1:1 with SOSA, but we shall try to
avoid needless divergence, and to document (machine readably when possible)
the commonalities and differences as things mature. And of course we'll
credit the WG appropriately for any Schema.org terms that are based on this
WG's efforts.

Thanks again,

Dan

On 15 June 2017 at 01:25, <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> This would be a great outcome.
> Strong endorsement from here.
>
> *However* - the group should be aware that there are already elements in
> schema.org that either overlap or could be confused with SOSA.
>
> http://schema.org/Action ~ (http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Actuation |
>                                          http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
> Observation |
>                                         http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Sampling
> )
> http://schema.org/result ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/hasResult
> http://schema.org/instrument ~ ( http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/madeBySensor |
>                                         http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
> madeBySampler |
>                                         http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
> madeByActuator )
> http://schema.org/endTime ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/resultTime
>
> and probably quite a few opportunities for alignment in
> http://health-lifesci.0.3-2f.schemaorgae.appspot.com/ such as
> http://health-lifesci.schema.org/procedure ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
> usedProcedure
> http://health-lifesci.schema.org/tissueSample ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
> hasFeatureOfInterest
> http://health-lifesci.schema.org/SurgicalProcedure ~
> http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Actuation (?)
>
> And http://pending.schemaorgae.appspot.com/variableMeasured is closely
> related to http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/observedProperty though the scope
> (domain) of the former is 'dataset' while the scope of the latter is
> 'observation'.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armin Haller [mailto:armin.haller@anu.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 June, 2017 09:02
> To: public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
> Subject: Group endorses SOSA being taken up by schema.org
>
> Dear all,
>
> In today’s plenary call we had a resolution (https://www.w3.org/2017/06/
> 14-sdw-minutes.html), albeit with few people attending, to endorse SOSA
> being taken up by schema.org. We already had agreement within the SSN
> subgroup and the editors of the SSN document are more than happy to help
> facilitate the adoption of (parts of) SOSA in schema.org.
>
> Kind regards,
> Armin
>
>
>