- From: Jens Lehmann <lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:18:24 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Hello, Am 13.07.2011 14:54, schrieb Matt Perry: > The Open Geospatial Consortium has started a 30-day public comment > period for the GeoSPARQL candidate standard. > > GeoSPARQL defines a core RDF/OWL vocabulary for geospatial data and > defines a standard set of geospatial query functions for SPARQL. > > The official press release, which contains a link to the GeoSPARQL > document, can be found here: > http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1419 It is good to see that there is further progress on GeoSPARQL. We are looking forward to supporting it in our LinkedGeoData (http://linkedgeodata.org) project. Some high level comments on the spec: * It would be good to turn the link in the press release into an actual link. Otherwise, people need to copy&paste it in their browser and may not even spot it (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/80). * Why does OGC publish specifications in a proprietary file format? Wouldn't it be much better to (also) publish an HTML version - preferably with a nice URL (instead of http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=44722). * Wouldn't an issue tracker or a web form be better than having to download a text file, editing it and sending it back by mail for comments? * If OGC is too rigid to fix the above issues, it would be good to have an alternative HTML version somewhere else as more handy reference. That could be important if a wide audience is supposed to use the standard. * What is the relation between GeoSPARQL and http://geovocab.org? Kind regards, Jens -- Dr. Jens Lehmann Head of AKSW/MOLE group, University of Leipzig Homepage: http://www.jens-lehmann.org GPG Key: http://jens-lehmann.org/jens_lehmann.asc
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