Data Cube LC comments

Last Call Comments Disposition: Data Cube

Comments and draft responses for Data Cube Last Call ending 2013-04-08.

Disposition of comments

Commenter	Message	Summary	Status	GLD response	Acknowledgement
Frans Knibbe	[1]	Editorial comment on missing namespace prefix used in Example 1.	Prefix added	[2] [3]	[4]
Guillaume Duffes	[5]	Special nature of qb:MeasureType is a divergence from SDMX	Clarification sought [6].	[7]	[8]
Guillaume Duffes	[9]	Editorial	Editorial changes made.	[10]	[11]
Peter Winstanley	[12]	Endorsement plus evidence of use.	Acknowledged, no change needed.	[13]	N/A
Leigh Dodds	[14]	Endorsement plus evidence of use.	Acknowledged, no change needed.	[15]	N/A
Ørnulf Risnes	[16]	Endorsement plus evidence of use.	Acknowledged, no change needed.	[17]	N/A
Bill Roberts	[18]	Endorsement, evidence of use. Suggest additional metadata properties for granularity and spatial coverage. Question need for IC-2, IC-4, IC-5.	Push back on suggested changes. Resolve IC-4/5 issue by change to external resources. No changes to documents.	[19]	[20]
Ulrich Atz	[21]	15 comments believed to be all editorial and primarily related to ordering of exposition and examples	Clarification sought [22] and given [23]. All editorial, changes made.	[24]	[25]
Franck Cotton	[26]	"hesitant about the introduction of the qb:HierarchicalCodeList"	Working group resolved to retain qb:HeirarchicalCodeList.	[27]	[28]
Franck Cotton	[29]	22 Editorial comments	Editorial changes made.	[30]	[31]
Laurent Bihanic via Franck Cotton	[32]	Two claimed errors in sdmx-*.ttl - NOT part of GLD products.	Dealt with outside working group. One fixed, one is not an error.	[33]	N/A

Summary

Eight responses from a broad range of contributors, four of which explicitly state that they have been using the vocabulary including several references to deployed applications of it.

The bulk of comments are editorial and can be addressed as such. Some of the other comments that might have been interpreted as non-editorial have been confirmed as editorial via follow up clarification.

The non-editorial comments are:

Non-editorial comments

Commenter	Comment	Status
Bill Roberts	Additional metadata properties for granularity and spacial coverage	Accepted "no change" response
Bill Roberts	Need for IC-2	Accepted "no change" response
Bill Roberts	Need for IC-4/5	Accepted "no change" response (given proposed update to sdmx* vocabs)
Franck Cotton	hesitant about the introduction of the qb:HierarchicalCodeList	Tracked as ISSUE-59 Accepted: [34]
Laurent Bihanic via Franck Cotton	Two claimed errors in sdmx-*.ttl	Not part of Data Cube specification or GLD work products. (Responded, one is not an error, one fixed).