Re: April focus week

Hi Linda

Do you know exact dates yet for the SDWIG workshop in Leuven yet?  I am
just looking at travel arrangements around then and will just come for the
SDWIG days rather than the whole week.

Thanks

Bill

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 09:49, Linda van den Brink <l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> This is to remind you that next week is April focus week!
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> To get us started:
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> The retrospective for March focus week is here:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0026.html
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> And the review:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0007.html
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> Now, just to remind you all, the SDWIG is chartered until the end of this
> year, so we have 9 months left.
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> We have two face to face meetings coming up this year:
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> - At the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Leuven, Belgium in the week of
> 24-28 June.
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> - At the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings in Fukuoka,
> Japan in the week of 16-20 September.
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> We have **a lot** of mostly things going on at the moment.
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> Little things:
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> - Corrections for documents we published before, such as OWL Time, EO-QB,
> SSN.
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> - Getting OWL Space discussion started within OGC – Jo and I are on that
> and will get this started in OGC GeoSemantics DWG at the June OGC meeting.
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> - Figuring out if/how SDWIG can help coordinate OGC engagement with Web of
> Things folks
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> Some things that seem to be progressing, such as WebVMT and MapML.
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> CoverageJSON seems like it will probably be moving forward within OGC.
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> And a few bigger work items, which seem to have stalled:
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> If any of these things need help by the chairs, let us know!!
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> - Spatial Data on the Web best practices: publishing implementation
> reports.
>   Also, issue #1118 relates to a fix in an SDW-BP example. Fix has been
> done, but we need to figure out the OGC process for publishing an update –
> seems to require a membership vote. I’m looking into it.
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> - Statistical data on the web best practices
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> - Moving objects, SSN primer (both never started)
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> - SSN ontology amendments
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> - Geospatial Web Roadmap (needs some more work, I have been struggling to
> find the time to do this myself)
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> - CoverageJSON – work may be done within OGC
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> - CityJSON - Standardisation efforts paused.
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> A while ago, Jeremy, François and I discussed our plans / goals for this
> year.
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> - Get Rob Smith chartered  to standardize WebVMT / help him along as far
> as needed.
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> - MapML – support the approach using web components like the TAG
> (technical architecture group of W3C) advised. Help gain support for MapML
> within the mapping community and data providers.
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> - Get SDW-Best Practice implementation report published as a group note
> first, then in some industry magazine.
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> - Get the Statistical data on the web best practice as a work item in the
> OGC stats DWG, where the community will be.
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> - Geospatial Data Roadmap: finish it this year.
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> - SSN extensions: publish as a note asap.
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> - Moving objects: parking lot - close the project
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> - SSN primer: same
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> - Time ontology: publish updated corrigendum version.
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> - SSN ontology amendment: facilitate discussion on the proposed changes,
> but the IG cannot actually update SSN as it is a standard.
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> - New project proposals: get OWL Space work going within OGC. The other
> proposals have not gained momentum so we will not move forward with those.
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> Feedback on this is welcome.
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> That’s it for now… a good weekend to you all and find some time to work on
> SDW stuff next week! It will be nice to see you all online.
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> Linda & Jeremy
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