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Mission
The mission of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group was to clarify and formalize the relevant standards landscape. In particular:
- to determine how spatial information can best be integrated with other data on the Web;
- to determine how machines and people can discover that different facts in different datasets relate to the same place, especially when 'place' is expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity;
- to identify and assess existing methods and tools and then create a set of best practices for their use;
where desirable, to complete the standardization of informal technologies already in widespread use.
Read the charter
Deliverables
The Working Group developed and published the following documents:
Specification title | Published versions | Publication date |
---|---|---|
Spatial Data on the Web Use Cases & Requirements | Working Group Note Editor's Draft |
25 October 2016 |
Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices | Working Group Note Editor's Draft |
28 September 2017 |
Time Ontology in OWL | Recommendation Editor's Draft |
19 October 2017 |
Semantic Sensor Network Ontology | Recommendation Editor's Draft |
19 October 2017 |
Publishing and Using Earth Observation Data with the RDF Data Cube and the Discrete Global Grid System | Working Group Note Editor's Draft |
28 September 2017 |
QB4ST: RDF Data Cube extensions for spatio-temporal components | Working Group Note Editor's Draft |
28 September 2017 |
Overview of the CoverageJSON format | Working Group Note Editor's Draft |
11 July 2017 |
Additional information about some of the deliverables is available in dedicated pages:
- Use Cases and Requirements
- SDW Best Practices
- OWL Time Ontology
- Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
- Coverages in Linked Data
Wide Review
The Wide Review page records efforts to secure review of documents.
Evidence of adoption
Timeline
The group published final versions of all the deliverables it developed in October 2017. No further work is planned in the Working Group.
The Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group was created in October 2017 to discuss further joint areas of interest for OGC and W3C, and maintain the documents produced by this Working Group.
Useful Pages
- github index for all deliverables
- how to work with GitHub
- Glossary of terms
- Ontology Design Principles
- Technology Talks
- Coordinate Reference Systems
- Spatial Data Formats Catalog
- ISO 19115 - DCAT - Schema.org mapping
Infrastructure & Contacts
The WG's main communication channel is its mailing list. This is publicly archived but only WG members may post to it.
You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]
The WG creates and maintains editors' drafts in its GitHub Repository.
WG co-chairs: Kerry Taylor, Australian National University, and Ed Parsons, Google
Team contacts: François Daoust (W3C), Scott Simmons (OGC)
You can contact the chairs and team directly via <team-sdw-chairs@w3.org>
Meetings
See the separate Meetings page for links to agendas, minutes, dial in details etc.
No more Face to Face meeting planned for the Working Group. The WG held face to face meetings twice a year, typically at OGC TC meetings and W3C TPAC. The creation of a follow-up Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group within W3C is under discussion. If created, that interest group will meet at TPAC 2017 in Burlingame, California, 6-10 November 2017.
See also the program of Technology Talks.
Publications, Presentations, Media about the Working Group
- Initial Press Release (6 Jan 2015)
- K Taylor, E Parsons, Where Is Everywhere: Bringing Location to the Web Internet Computing, IEEE 19 (2), 83-87 2015
- Josh Lieberman's OGC blogpost (23 Jul 2015)
- Four part blog about the SDWWG by Frans:
- Spatial data on the Web: why? (19 Jan 2016)
- Spatial data on the Web: goals of the OGC/W3C working group (8 Feb 2016)
- Spatial data on the Web: how should it work? (8 Feb 2016)
- Space, the final frontier? (1 Nov 2016)
- SDW presentation @ Geodata on the Web Workshop (Amersfoort, 10 Feb 2016)
- SDW Workshop @ INSPIRE 2016 (Barcelona, 30 Sep 2016)
- SDW presentation @ RDA P9 (Barcelona, 5 Apr 2017)
- SDW presentation @ OGC TC Webinar (15 May 2017)