Presentation based on position paper submitted for Joint W3C/OGC workshop: Linking Geospatial Data 5th - 6th March 2014, Campus London, Shoreditch http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/agenda#al58 Geographic information is provided in heterogeneous formats, creating technical and semantic barriers that hinder data consumers to combine data from various sources. Linked Data design principles can help alleviate these barriers and realise three generic use cases for data consumers to consume location data as linked data. We have demonstrated the technical feasibility for this in a Linked Data pilot that integrates address data from five different public sector organisations in Belgium. The pilot demonstrates that a Linked Data layer can be built on top of an existing geospatial implementation with a minimum of effort. It also shows that URI sets for INSPIRE spatial objects and spatial things can accommodate both XML (GML) and RDF representations.
Linked Location Data as a Service Linking Geospatial Data 5th - 6th March 2014, Google Campus London, Shoreditch Stijn Goedertier – PwC EU Services Nikolaos Loutas – PwC EU Services Vassilios Peristeras – European Commission Presentation based on position paper submitted for Joint W3C/OGC workshop: Linking Geospatial Data 5th - 6th March 2014, Campus London, Shoreditch http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/agenda#al58 5 March 2014 ISA Programme, Action 1.1
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Linked Location Data as a Service
Linking Geospatial Data5th - 6th March 2014, Google Campus London, Shoreditch
Stijn Goedertier – PwC EU ServicesNikolaos Loutas – PwC EU ServicesVassilios Peristeras – European Commission
Presentation based on position paper submitted for Joint W3C/OGC workshop: Linking Geospatial Data5th - 6th March 2014, Campus London, Shoreditchhttp://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/agenda#al58
•A simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a location, represented as an address, a geographic name, or a geometry.
•Developed in the period December 2011 – May 2012 by a multi disciplinary Working Group
•co-chairs: Michael Lutz, Paul Smits, Andrea Perego (DG JRC)•editor: Phil Archer (W3C)•task force: Segun Alayande, Adam Arndt, Joseph Azzopardi, Chirsina Bapst, Serena Coetzee, Andreas Gehlert, Giorgios Georgiannakis, Anja Hopfstock, Andreas•Illert, Michaela Elisa Jackson, Morten Lind, Matthias Lüttgert, Andras Micsik, Piotr Piotrowski, Greg Potterton, Peter Schmitz, Raj Singh, Athina Trakas, Rob Walker, Stuart Williams, Peter Winstanley, ...
•The W3C Location and Addresses Community Group is to review the existing efforts such as the Core Location Vocabulary and assess whether any use cases would be served by harmonization and/or new standardization work.
•It may produce specifications or use cases and requirements documents, which may be proposed for adoption by the W3C Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group
• Core Location ánd INSPIRE AD can be used to harmonise address data from disparate systems• Core Location can be easily extended with (still experimental) INSPIRE RDF vocabularies• URI sets for INSPIRE spatial objects and spatial things can accommodate both the XML (GML) and RDF world
