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EuroGeographics- Linking Geospatial Data(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 16 June 2014 Release date- 16062014 - W3C has announced the final report from the Linking Geospatial Data workshop that was held in London 5 - 6 March 2014. The report contains a summary of each of the major themes discussed and conclusions arising from them. The workshop was supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Google, our member Ordnance Survey and the UK government. W3C's participation was funded by the EU-funded SmartOpenData project. Participants included many geospatial experts from both the government and private sectors, and the presented papers focused on integrating geospatial information systems with the Web of Data. Although carefully advertised so as not to promote Linked Data to the exclusion of other methods, this emerged strongly as the preferred technology to enable that integration. The Workshop report identifies several themes that recurred throughout the discussion. A consensus of the participants was that joint work between W3C and OGC should be pursued to address the needs identified in these themes. A lot of the discussion across the two days of the workshop can be summarized in the paper and presentation by Frans Knibbe of Geodan. By introducing the characters of Miss Globe and Mr Cube, he posed some key questions: how should we encode geometry? how and where should we implement topological functions? additional metadata is required for spatial datasets - how do we do that? where is the software support for spatial datatypes and functions? geometries expressed as WKT literals are large objects - the Linked data world is used to handling simple literals; how do we help developers handle (or avoid) the steep learning curve to work with Linked Data? Paper: http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/papers/lgd14_submission_4 Presentation: http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/Frans.pdf (c) 2014 Electronic News Publishing - |