[OpenLayers-Dev] [Context.RWG] WMC, OWS Context, and ContextCollection examples

[Cameron Shorter]

Raj,
I like the idea of using a standard like Atom Collection. I can't
think of any implementation arguments for sticking with a
ContextCollection instead. AtomCollection seems to have the key fields
we require which are just Title and URL. Maybe a Description for a
Summary would be useful. But I don't see it as essential.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Raj Singh <rsingh at opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> If you drop the ContextCollection format, and adopt Atom Collection
>  (which is the same format as an Atom feed) you might lose a little bit
>  of Context-centric descriptive richness, but you will gain a lot:
>  1. ability to subscribe to Collections in your RSS reader (or for
>  developers, ability to re-use your RSS reading code)
>  2. a "free" publishing and update standard
>  3. a "free" categorization scheme
>
>  I attach a sample Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) service document for
>  an OWS Context Collection (file: context_service_document.xml) and a
>  sample Collection document (file: context_feed.xml).
>
>  What do you think of this idea?
>
>  ---
>  Raj
>
>
>  On Feb 19, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>  > There has been little talk about ContextCollection which is a simple
>  > but effective way to list Context documents. It would be a useful
>  > format to be returned from a Catalog query.
>  >
>  > Files at:
>  > http://svn.codehaus.org/mapbuilder/trunk/mapbuilder/examples
>  >
>  > ContextCollection documents:
>  > projDemo/Proj4jsMapExamples.xml
>  > data/context/worldMapsCollection.xml
>  > data/context/demoCollection.xml
>  > timeSeries/timeSeriesCollection.xml
>  > shipTracks/mapCollection.xml
>  > Demis/mapCollection.xml
>
>
>



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