dclite4g, and "mass market" metadata

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

I was reading with interest Raj's elaboration of the OGC "Mass Market"
activity: [[ Study the consumer, "hacker", and even the mainstream 
corporate IT communities and architect a geo strategy for those markets ]]
http://www.rajsingh.org/blog/?p=15

Is this a "hacker" community? Can we not collectively be the architect
of our own strategy? Can we have more sharing, not more strategy?

http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/dclite4g

Allan Doyle kindly set up this list for making working models of 
"mass market metadata". This issue is specific enough in this
community that it's worth making a separate list for, also to archive
some of the conversation that is occasionally happening out-of-band.
I view it being low traffic and high signal. 

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/DCLite4G is a quick outline page. A
lot of the work to be done on it really involves mining other pages,
other wikis and maybe making some UML diagrams so that it looks, more
proper like. 

In many contexts I dream of a list rule that you have to be actively
working on an implementation in the domain in order to express any
kind of design opinion other that a reference. I don't know, I have
been in a project where the lead was insisting that anyone making a
design suggestion had to submit a test case illustrating usage. 
That would be harder to do in this context, and i wouldn't want to be
fascistic or anything...

cheers,


jo