[georss] [Fwd: RE: using categories for disambiguation]

[Sean Gillies]

Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
> i think we need to change the default reply-to of this list. people keep 
> replying just to the poster :)
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:52:43 -0800
> From: Ron Lake <rlake at galdosinc.com>
> To: Gregor J. Rothfuss <gregor at apache.org>
> 
> Hi Sean:
> 
> An ebRIM Registry can support any classification scheme.
> 
> Here is one using the FACC Classification Scheme:
> 
> http://indicio.wrs.galdosinc.com/indicio/query?request=getRecordById&inc
> lude=all&ElementSetName=full&view=urn:x-indicio:csw-ebrim:def:registry:t
> ransformation:RegistryBrowser&id=urn:x-ogc:specification:csw-ebrim:Class
> ificationScheme:DIGEST-FACC:Features
> 
> Here is one providing a classification of services using ISO 19119
> 
> http://indicio.wrs.galdosinc.com/indicio/query?request=getRecordById&inc
> lude=all&ElementSetName=full&view=urn:x-indicio:csw-ebrim:def:registry:t
> ransformation:RegistryBrowser&id=urn:x-ogc:specification:csw-ebrim:Class
> ificationScheme:ISO-19119:Services
> 
> We will be providing several soon for OASIS EDXL.
> 
> If you can define a useful one for GeoRSS we could host it.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org
> [mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org] On Behalf Of Gregor J. Rothfuss
> Sent: March 10, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: Sean Gillies; georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Subject: Re: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> 
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>> Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
>>> Ron Lake wrote:
>>>> I like this idea two  - since the scheme could point to a GML
>>>> application schema or ebRIM classification scheme, in either case
>>>> managed through some sort of registry.
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>> right. is there a list of classification schemes? it would definitely
> 
>>> help to list some recommended schemes, to seed the folksonomy.
> besides
>>> the GIS ones, i'd like to add some common tagging ones like 
>>> del.icio.us, wikipedia and others.
>>>
>> There's a scheme/thesaurus maintained by Linda Hill at UCSB that's
> long
>> been overlooked:
>>
>>
> http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer//FeatureTypes/FTT2HTM/FTT2ALPH.
> TXT
> 
> nice. that looks like it might overlap with categorization schemes
> commonly used by yellow page providers.
> 
> for instance http://www.yellowbook.com/Category/T/
> 
>> For wikipedia, I presume you mean something like
>>
>> <category term="Creative_Commons" scheme="http://en.wikipedia.org"/>
>>
>> right? Pop the node name off Wikipedia URLs?
> 
> almost.
> 
> <category term="Creative_Commons"
> scheme="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"/>
> 
> the nice thing about that scheme is that you can dereference any
> category to learn what it means. plus for many terms, the wikipedia page
> 
> has become the canonical url anyway.
> 
> -gregor

Thanks for sending it back to the list. It was only a matter of time 
before I slipped up.

Sean

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Sean Gillies
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