[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[Arnulf Christl]

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On 07/31/2012 12:23 AM, Scot Wilcoxon wrote:
> 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

Scot, sure thing but I wanted to avoid the term because people
associate all kinds of things with Semantic Web that I want to avoid
at this stage. :-)

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

The "bucket" context is taken from David Weinberger's "Everything is
Misceallaneous" [1] and my intention was to purposefully not make it
technically sound yet but leave as a Wiki until we know where this is
going. At the same time the semantic extensions for Mediawiki are
evolving and might eventually do the job you suggest without much help
from our side.

Thanks,
Arnulf

[1] http://evident.com/

> * 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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