[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[Scot Wilcoxon]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:40 +0100, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

> 
> 1. My suggestion is to also use this committee as a hub to build
> knowledge around licenses, maintain a repository of initiatives and
> link
> everything together. Not so much like hard metadata in a catalog but a
> lot looser, more like a big bucket with goodies to find.


I think the concept that you're looking for is a "semantic web".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

A bunch of buckets of data, and you define the characteristics of the
buckets so software can use (and display) the info.

* You have a license object which defines the characteristics of a
license. Probably defined in something like XML.
* You define a license (identifier="CC-BY-SA", name="Creative
Commons ... etc", restrictions="share-derivatives,attribute", etc...) --
except you probably use XML.
* You have a data object which defines the characteristics of some data,
and this includes the license (identifier).
* You define data using the data object characteristics.

If a data definition is available through a URL, inside that definition
will be the relevant other objects, including the URL of the data object
definition, the license identifier ("CC-BY-SA"), and the URL of the
definition of the license.  Similarly, the license includes the URL of
the license object which defines all the license fields.
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