- From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:15:57 +0000
- To: Government Linked Data Working Group <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
A number of groups have reported use cases where they wish to more flexibly relate measures in one cube to measures in another cube or in the same cube at a different aggregation level. Examples included: - cubes of metrics which derive from combinations of more primitive metrics (as occur in local government performance reporting) - relating population category statistics (expressed as percentage of population) to corresponding total population counts - aggregation functions for OLAP cubes as expressed in, for example, QB4OLDAP [1] - when aggregating measures at defined levels in a geographic hierarchy [2] (a special case of the OLAP one) This ISSUE is currently marked as RAISED but not OPEN. There is some overlap here with ISSUE-31 which I'll raise on a separate thread. I would love to address this issue but there is significant work involved here. As Arofan pointed out on that same thread [2] there has been substantial work in the SDMX community on this. So addressing this issue well is not simply a matter of agreeing a technically good solution for Data Cube but would require coordination to ensure the solution is compatible with the technical direction of SDMX. Given our new timescale this is simply not possible. Since this would extend but not change the existing design it could be addressed by a future iteration of the spec. Proposal: Mark the issue as "Postponed". Dave [1] Lorena Etcheverry, Alejandro A. Vaisman http://publishing-multidimensional-data.googlecode.com/git/index.html [While I'm here I'd like to apologize to Lorena and Alejandro for not having followed up on this interesting work. This has been due to lack of time to invest in this area, not lack of interest.] [2] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/publishing-statistical-data/3I1-Ix1Hk14/discussion
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