Fwd: Group endorses SOSA being taken up by schema.org

[Dan Brickley]

FYI, thread on W3C Spatial Web WG regarding possible uptake at Schema.org of their SOSA vocabulary (as discussed on yesterday's call).

Dan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Brickley <dan...@google.com>
Date: 15 June 2017 at 13:53
Subject: Re: Group endorses SOSA being taken up by schema.org
To: Simon Cox <Simo...@csiro.au>
Cc: Armin Haller <armin....@anu.edu.au>, "SDW WG (public...@w3.org)" <public...@w3.org>

Thanks Armin, Simon and all. It is good to have this resolved by the WG, and I note also the various qualifying comments and concerns in the discussions on the WG list. As Simon points out, Schema.org comes with its own heritage/legacy of terms and structures. For example we also already have two mechanisms for describing quantities (see https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1390#issuecomment-252202548 and nearby). There is also interest in figuring out a story for how high-level descriptions of datasets relate to their actual data contents (cf. W3C CSVW and also W3C Data Cube, which has some bearing on the observation/measurement topic). All of which is just to say that whatever we do in Schema.org may not be entirely 1:1 with SOSA, but we shall try to avoid needless divergence, and to document (machine readably when possible) the commonalities and differences as things mature. And of course we'll credit the WG appropriately for any Schema.org terms that are based on this WG's efforts.

Thanks again,

Dan

On 15 June 2017 at 01:25, <Simo...@csiro.au> wrote:

This would be a great outcome.
Strong endorsement from here.

*However* - the group should be aware that there are already elements in schema.org that either overlap or could be confused with SOSA.

http://schema.org/Action ~ (http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Actuation |
                                         http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Observation |
                                        http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Sampling )
http://schema.org/result ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/hasResult
http://schema.org/instrument ~ ( http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/madeBySensor |
                                        http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/madeBySampler |
                                        http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/madeByActuator )
http://schema.org/endTime ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/resultTime

and probably quite a few opportunities for alignment in http://health-lifesci.0.3-2f.schemaorgae.appspot.com/ such as
http://health-lifesci.schema.org/procedure ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/usedProcedure
http://health-lifesci.schema.org/tissueSample ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/hasFeatureOfInterest
http://health-lifesci.schema.org/SurgicalProcedure ~ http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Actuation (?)

And http://pending.schemaorgae.appspot.com/variableMeasured is closely related to http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/observedProperty though the scope (domain) of the former is 'dataset' while the scope of the latter is 'observation'.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Armin Haller [mailto:armin....@anu.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, 15 June, 2017 09:02
To: public...@w3.org
Cc: Dan Brickley <dan...@google.com>
Subject: Group endorses SOSA being taken up by schema.org

Dear all,

In today’s plenary call we had a resolution (https://www.w3.org/2017/06/14-sdw-minutes.html), albeit with few people attending, to endorse SOSA being taken up by schema.org. We already had agreement within the SSN subgroup and the editors of the SSN document are more than happy to help facilitate the adoption of (parts of) SOSA in schema.org.

Kind regards,
Armin

[Thad Guidry]

YEAH !

Great Job, Simon and Team !

(now I can breathe easier)

-Thad

+ThadGuidry