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Mission

The mission of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group is to clarify and formalize the relevant standards landscape. In particular:

• to determine how spatial information can best be integrated with other data on the Web;
• to determine how machines and people can discover that different facts in different datasets relate to the same place, especially when 'place' is expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity;
• to identify and assess existing methods and tools and then create a set of best practices for their use;

where desirable, to complete the standardization of informal technologies already in widespread use.

The Spatial Data on the Web WG is part of the Data Activity and is explicitly chartered to work in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), in particular, the Spatial Data on the Web Task Force of the Geosemantics Domain Working Group. Formally, each standards body has established its own group with its own charter and operates under the respective organization's rules of membership, however, the 'two groups' will work together very closely and create a set of common outputs that are expected to be adopted as standards by both W3C and OGC and to be jointly branded.

Read the charter and join the Working Group.

Deliverables

(This section will expand over time to include links to relevant wiki pages, editors drafts and published documents.)

• Use Cases & Requirements
• Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
• OWL Time Ontology
• Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
• Coverage in Linked Data

Work in Progress

• Use Cases & Requirements

Working Use Cases

Scope questions and Requirements

Spreadsheet collating Reqs from UCs

Editor's Draft

UC References

UC Wish List

• Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices

Notes for Context

BP References

BP Wish List

BP Requirements

• OWL Time Ontology

Time References

Time Wish List

• Semantic Sensor Network Ontology

SSN References

SSN Wish List

• Coverage in Linked Data

Cov References

Cov Wish List

• Glossary of terms
• Ontology Design Principles

Infrastructure & Contacts

The WG's main communication channel is its mailing list. This is publicly archived but only WG members may post to it.

You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]

The WG creates and maintains editors' drafts in its GitHub Repository.

WG co-chairs: Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, and Ed Parsons, Google

Team contacts: Phil Archer (W3C), Ingo Simonis (OGC)

You can contact the chairs and team directly via <team-sdw-chairs@w3.org>

Full list of WG participants

GitHub repository

Meetings

See the separate Meetings page for links to agendas, minutes, dial in details etc.

The WG is expected to hold face to face meetings twice a year, typically at OGC TC meetings and W3C TPAC.

Advice for the group

- See the csv on the web group for best practice use case style and wiki style

Publications, Presentations, Media about the Working Group

• Initial Press Release

• K Taylor, E Parsons, Where Is Everywhere: Bringing Location to the Web Internet Computing, IEEE 19 (2), 83-87 2015