GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes

Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 02/18/2026

Meeting Time: 2000 UTC

Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams

Attendees

Attendee Moniker
Matthew Perry MP
Timo Homburg TH
Nicholas Car NC
Jo Abhayaratna JA

Note Takers

  • MP

Action Items From Last Meetings

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

Discussion Items

Time Item Who Notes
2000 Meeting opening and handover JA, MP
  • JA opened the meeting but handed facilitation to MP due to illness.
  • Recording and transcription were confirmed to be running.
2005 Roll call and administrative items MP
  • Roll call completed.
  • Call for patents – none declared.
2010 Pull Requests and ISO content status NC, TH, MP
  • NC reported on two open PRs.
  • TH provided verbal approval due to GitHub UI issues.
  • NC to merge PRs and circulate ISO content separately once internal review permits.
2020 GeoSPARQL 1.1 artefact audit and Rainbow issues NC, MP, TH
  • NC described an audit of all GeoSPARQL 1.1 artefacts to ensure correct delivery via OGC Rainbow.
  • Intermittent IRI resolution and missing HTML/RDF representations were demonstrated.
  • Decision to create a dedicated “GeoSPARQL 1.1 mappings” ontology to manage alignment triples.
2040 ISO standardisation progress NC, TH
  • NC walked through ISO document structure and editorial changes.
  • Clarified that RDF content remains unchanged; work is administrative and harmonisation-focused.
  • Discussion on how definitions, diagrams, and requirements differ between OGC and ISO conventions.
2100 Documentation tooling and bibliography management NC, TH, MP
  • Discussion on BibTeX usage, normative vs non-normative references, and compatibility between AsciiDoc and Metanorma.
  • TH suggested splitting bibliographies to avoid custom scripting.
  • NC to investigate feasibility.
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Action Items

| # | Item | Responsible | Due Date | | —- | —- | —- | —- | | 1 | Circulate ISO GeoSPARQL content for SWG review once internal ISO editing is complete | NC | Next Meeting | | 2 | Complete audit of GeoSPARQL 1.1 artefacts and raise Naming Authority tickets where needed | NC | Next Meeting | | 3 | Create a dedicated GeoSPARQL 1.1 mappings ontology for alignment triples | NC | Next Meeting | | 4 | Investigate support for separate normative and non-normative bibliographies in tooling | NC, TH | Next Meeting | ``