[OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website

[Jeff McKenna]

Note that the issue here is not nested or not; the issue is that we must 
be careful with the use of the word "standard" on our new site.  -jeff



On 2017-08-22 3:11 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Never mind, you can have nesting, so OGC can contain WFS, WMS, WCS, etc...
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
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> On 22 August 2017 at 11:09, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     You can click on the number, in this case 11, and see a list of the
>     projects implementing the OGC standard. I am deleting it now...
> 
>     --
>     Jody Garnett
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>     On 22 August 2017 at 10:17, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com
>     <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
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>         __
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>         On mardi 22 août 2017 14:07:04 CEST Jeff McKenna wrote:
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>         > Many of these don't make any sense to me, if you ask me my opinion.  We
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>         > should be using the list of OGC standards and entering them into
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>         > wordpress, and not allowing editors to edit/add new non-standards.  But
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>         > that is all my own opinion :)  Then we can link to these standards.  As
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>         > of now anyone can create a 'standard' and post it on the beta site,
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>         > seems very odd to me.
> 
>         Just a remainder that OGC is not the only source of standards.
>         For example, GeoJSON is IETF RFC 7946 for example (and before
>         last year, was a community standard). GeoTIFF can also be
>         considered as a defacto standard, etc.. You have also the ISO
>         standards for metadata, etc...
> 
>         Probably a loose definition for standards could be a
>         specification available somewhere (potentially behind a paywall
>         like ISO...), and implemented by at least several software/vendors.
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>         Even
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>          >
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>          > Is my opinion here too strong? For now I chose just to edit the
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>          > descriptions for all of these 'standards', valid or not.
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>          >
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>          > What do you prefer?
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>          >
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>          > -jeff
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>          >
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>          > On 2017-08-22 1:59 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
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>          > > Thanks jeff, I just noticed that work had been done in the
>         GeoServer
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>          > > meeting :) We also spotted one standard "OGC" which does
>         not make sense.
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>          > >
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>          > > Do you think it is worthwhile linking to these standards?
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>          > >
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>          > >
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>          > >
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>          > > --
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>          > > Jody Garnett
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>          > >
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>          > > On 22 August 2017 at 09:42, Jeff McKenna
>         <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>         <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
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>          > >
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>          > > <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>         <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>> wrote:
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>          > > Since we have so many website 'editors' (currently 84),
>         please if
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>          > > you do create a new "standard" (double-quote use is on
>         purpose, as
> 
>          > > many of these are not actual standards) when you are
>         editing your
> 
>          > > project page, please let me know and I will edit the new
>         standard
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>          > > and add a description - I have just went through all of these
> 
>          > > "standards" and set descriptions for each of the 27
>         "standards".
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>          > >
> 
>          > > For example:
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>          > >   (WPS)
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>          > >
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>          > >     will now appear on the project pages as:
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>          > >
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>          > >    Web Processing Service (WPS)
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>          > >
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>          > > This consistency makes it much easier to read for new users
>         to our
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>          > > site.
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>          > >
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>          > > thanks all!
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>          > >
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>          > > -jeff
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