GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes
Meeting Details
Meeting Date: 09/17/2025
Meeting Time: 2005–2038
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams
Note: No quorum was present.
Attendees
| Attendee |
Moniker |
| Joseph Abhayaratna |
JA |
| Timo Homburg |
TH |
| Nicholas Car |
NC |
| Matthew Perry |
MP |
Apologies
Note Takers
Action Items From Last Meetings
| Done? |
Item |
Responsible |
Due Date |
| ⬜ |
Get in touch 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, NC |
- NC to get in touch with ISO style contact.
- NC confirmed use of Metanorma style form.
|
| 20:08 |
Agenda items from NC |
NC, TH, JA |
- Status update on GeoSPARQL 1.2.
- Resolved AsciiDoc issues that previously caused Metanorma build errors.
- Explicit anchors added to sections; 1.2 now in better shape than 1.1 regarding documentation errors.
- Diagram updated to UML style.
- Discussion on two ISO geometry definitions (geometry as superclass vs geometry as object).
- NC did not consider this an actual issue.
- TH raised a problem identified on page 102.
- SWG review of 1.2 requested before next meeting.
- Agreement to create issues tagged “ISO Alignment” for any findings.
- Intention to forward 1.2 to ISO after SWG review.
- ISO plenary noted as upcoming in November.
- Proposal to move vocabularies to the GeoSemantics repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/geosemantics-vocabs/
- TH asked how to mark vocabularies as experimental.
- NC advised applying a status indicator.
- NC recommended removing vocabularies from the GeoSPARQL repository once migration is complete to avoid duplication.
- JA stated that vocabularies forming part of the GeoSPARQL standard (e.g. ontology) should remain in the GeoSPARQL repository, while ancillary vocabularies may move.
|
| 20:12 |
Extended WKB document |
All |
|
| 20:20 |
Any PRs |
All |
- EWKB Community Standard Work Item first draft (PR #631) merged following vote.
|
| 20:24 |
Issues |
All |
- Issue discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/issues/634
- Issue tested in PowerShell 7 and Ubuntu and found to be working.
- Recommendation to close the issue.
|
| 20:51 |
Other topics |
All |
- TH working on an examples page to demonstrate elements of the standard in use.
|
| 20:38 |
Close |
All |
MEETING ENDS |
Action Items
| # |
Item |
Responsible |
Due Date |
| 1 |
Get in touch with ISO style contact |
NC |
Carried forward |