GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes

Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 08/20/2025
Meeting Time: 2005–2038
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams

Note: No quorum was present.

Attendees

Attendee Moniker
Joseph Abhayaratna JA
Timo Homburg TH
Arkadiusz Chadzynski AC
Matthew Perry MP

Apologies

  • Nicholas Car (NC)
  • Paul Cripps (PC)

Note Takers

  • Matthew Perry

Action Items From Last Meetings

Done? Item Responsible Due Date
Follow up with ISO style contact Nicholas Car Carried forward

Discussion Items

Time Item Who Notes
20:05 Roll call and call for patents All
  • Roll call completed.
  • No patents declared.
20:07 Previous actions JA
  • JA to follow up with Scott Simmons regarding Extended WKB and ISO standard style expert.
  • OGC has all required information and is awaiting documents.
  • Vote required to submit EWKB documents.
  • Contact made with Anthony Cohn; meeting to be arranged.
  • Anthony Cohn’s work to be considered (noted in issues #416 and #518).
20:12 Extended WKB document JA
  • JA to initiate an email vote for submission to OGC TC.
20:20 Any PRs All
  • EWKB Community Standard Work Item first draft reviewed and approved by MP.
  • TH to review after the meeting.
20:24 Issues JA
  • Issue raised to add a homepage to the GitHub project description.
  • JA updated project metadata and closed the issue.
20:28 Other topics All
  • Texture ontology and JavaScript demo for Wouter Beek discussed.
  • AC to work on the texture ontology and demo.
  • Status update on TH’s work on GeoSPARQL 1.1 benchmark queries.
  • TH reported work is still in progress.
20:38 Close All MEETING ENDS

Action Items

# Item Responsible Due Date
1 Follow up with Anthony Cohn PC Carried forward
2 Follow up with Scott Simmons regarding Extended WKB and ISO standard style expert JA