GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes

Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 12/11/2024
Meeting Time: 1909–2000
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams

Note: Quorum present.
Note: Meeting started 1 hour earlier (UTC) as per calendar entry.

Attendees

Attendee Moniker
Joseph Abhayaratna JA
Matthew Perry MP
Paul Cripps PC
Timo Homburg TH

Apologies

  • Nicholas Car (NC)

Absent

  • Vladimir Alexiev (VA)
  • Arkadiusz Chadzynski (AC)

Note Takers

  • JA

Action Items From Last Meetings

| Done? | Item | Responsible | Due Date | | —- | —- | —- | — |

Discussion Items

Time Item Who Notes
19:09 Roll call and call for patents All
  • Roll call completed.
  • No patents declared.
19:12 Previous actions All
  • Discussion on how to publish alignments as a living document.
  • Options considered included Best Practice documents, with concerns about governance.
  • Alternative approach proposed: a registry of alignments hosted in OGC Rainbow under SWG authority, with a link from the Standard.
  • Outlined steps required for alignments:
  • – Convert alignments into a ConceptScheme.
  • – Annotate entries with notes (suggested use of RDF*).
  • – Define a discovery and usage approach suitable for Rainbow.
  • JA to reach out to Scott Simmons to clarify ISO co‑publication status and next steps.
19:36 Geonovum meeting update TH
  • Geonovum meeting on 3D GeoSPARQL requirements was well attended and highly engaged.
  • Attendees included TH, PC, and AC.
  • Strong interest expressed in writing a paper similar to “Benefits of Representing Geospatial Data using Graph and Semantic Web Technologies”, focusing on 3D use cases and requirements.
19:50 Other business All
  • Next meeting scheduled for January 8.
  • MP to chair the next meeting.
20:00 Close All MEETING ENDS

Action Items

# Item Responsible Due Date
1 Work out what publication of the alignments in OGC Rainbow looks like NC —
2 Present GeoSPARQL alignment material to JAG JA, NC —
3 Book recurring fortnightly meetings for 2025 starting January 8 JA —