Progress towards a joint W3C/OGC Working Group

GeoLD2014
1 September, Leipzig

Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>

Use HTTP URIs as identifiers;
How should we handle multiple URIs for the same thing?
How should different systems refer to the same 'place?'
How can we provide complexity when needed without making simple things hard?
Location applies to just about everything, including news stories, articles, histories, statistics …
Time is a Coordinate Reference System

For example …

Steve Peters: Helping me as a user to navigate through the maze of standards, to show the best way to prepare, publish and encourage reuse of data. Best practice, support, peer networking.
Keith Jeffery: Standardized terminology of metadata, taking into account the different levels of metadata required by different applications.
Alex Coley: There are lots of parts of the picture that I'd like to see brought together into a coherent whole.
John Goodwin: +1 to what's been said… agreement on best practice and the standards, tools to implement them.
Kerry Taylor: A shared spatial vocabulary that's useful and easy to do.
Raphaël Troncy: +1 to Kerry.
Bill Roberts: I think we have enough standards, but I don't know how to use them. So: design patterns where people can document how they use standards.
Jeremy Tandy: We've identified 4 geospatial vocabs for identifying geometry. Could we get it down to 1? Agree it? NeoGeo? Core location? GeoSPARQL? W3C Geo? Can we have a vote?