October meeting canceled?

[Karl Grossner]

Hello all;

Unless someone proposes to host a meeting on the 18th -- our normal Third Tuesday meeting day -- I move to cancel it.

I have just begun developing a SHACL shape file for use in validating Linked Places format files, given that they are JSON-LD, an RDF syntax. Some related tasks will follow, including making sure the Linked Past Ontology (lpo:) is published and valid, so it may be consulted by the SHACL validation process. A natural followup would be a command line tool to convert other RDF syntaxes to JSON-LD based format that World Historical Gazetteer requires for relatively more elaborate contributions.

I don't have anything to report as yet, but will post to this list when I do, later in the fall. I'd like to have something to show before the November 15th meeting date but can't promise it, as WHG development is active on a couple of other fronts.

In the meantime, if there are other LPF topics you feel warrant a Zoom meeting, please do propose them!

best
Karl

[Graham Klyne]

On 16 Oct 2022, at 18:49, Karl Grossner <karl...@gmail.com> wrote:

A natural followup would be a command line tool to convert other RDF syntaxes to JSON-LD based format that World Historical Gazetteer requires for relatively more elaborate contributions.

Maybe something to consider JSON-LD Framing to implement?  https://w3c.github.io/json-ld-framing/

(I’m not familiar with details or available tooling here, just throwing it in as a thought.)

#g

[Karl Grossner]

Dear all,

Due to a hectic schedule of software development and travel I am unable to provide agenda items for the upcoming meeting slot in November (the 15th), so unless someone has something let's defer meeting again. Also, I'm at GMT +7 through December, so the time slot won't work for me.

A few things to mention, though:

• The Gazetteer Activity group within the Pelagios Network is likely to resume a somewhat regular meeting schedule next year, and when it does, Linked Places format seems like a natural topic; perhaps this group should become an offshoot of that one?
• A Time Interest Group is forming within Pelagios Network, which will also be relevant to Linked Places format, since time is co-equal with space in LPF! Discussions about that new effort will be part of the upcoming Linked Pasts 8 conference (hybrid, in York and online). Not sure I can make relevant meetings at Linked Pasts 8 due to the time zone difference, but if so I'll be trying to summarize what LPF is about.
• At a recent meeting of the Pelagios Network Visualization Activity, a project was presented that uses the new Peripleo-Lite software module developed by Rainer Simon, and the data is nominally LPF, as Peripleo requires. However...apparently there is a different "flavor" of LPF in use there. So one future agenda item should be something like "LPF Flavors?"
  
  • IMO, if software is said to require or support LPF, it should adhere to the spec -- which I think stipulates (at least assumes) that anything "extra" will simply be ignored by other LPF-supporting software. No problem adding things, but if elements of the spec are changed or ignored then it is not actually LPF (!).
  • Of course it is always an option to come to this group with a proposal to alter the LPF spec :^)
    

best regards
Karl