[georss] Geospatial Incubator Group

[Josh@oklieb]

Hi,

As chair of the group, I hope I can shed some light on this activity.  
Actually, everyone on this list is invited to join the public mailing  
list for the group: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-geo/

The first objective of the group is to have W3C adopt (non- 
exclusively) the vocabulary of GeoRSS Simple by using it to update  
the w3c geo vocabulary. Still working on the administrative details  
of that, but will probably provide a new URI for the geo namespace  
and refine the RDF definition of GeoRSS Simple (same XML, different  
schema definition).

The next objective will be to work outwards towards the S/semantic  
Web community via a geospatial Web ontology.  I mean the upper/lower  
case because there are a number of tagging and microformat efforts to  
which we can contribute a geospatial aspect. In addition, this may be  
the place to begin defining some basic ontologies and folksonomies  
for the featuretypetag and relationshiptag elements in GeoRSS.

After that, well, who knows what might come of the collaboration  
between the various free and not-so-free communities interested in  
this activity. Your suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,

Josh Lieberman

Principal, Traverse Technologies Inc.
mailto:jlieberman at traversetechnologies.com
tel +1 (617) 395-7766
fax +1 (775) 514-6621

On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:37 PM, noiv wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anybody could bring some light into the implications
> the recently founded Geospatial Incubator Group will rise?
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/charter
>
> As an 'immediate objective' the group will do:
> "update and harmonization with GeoRSS of the GEO vocabulary,
> aka simplest useful geospatial ontology."
>
> Will it mean rewriting of code, more possibilities,
> more useful applications or all of them?
>
> What is now the address to send proposals to?
>
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Torsten Becker aka noiv
> http://ExploreOurPla.net
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