PeterParslow
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7 months ago Some thoughts (after conversations in Delhi):
- how useful / valuable is the platform independent description of a service? Does anyone actually do it i.e. use that bit of ISO 19119?
- what is the standardisation target of ISO 19119? That is, what sorts of things could possible "conform to" ISO 19119? Is it aimed at standardising standards - e.g. service specifications? Are service specifications ever written that way? I don't see it in the INSPIRE Technical Guidelines for each of their (five) service types.
In the AHG on e-Government recommendations were made for the future revision of ISO standards and new standard projects: -ISO/TC 211 should continue to derive RDF/OWL from the harmonised UML models in the ISO/TC 211 standards. Existing activities on revising mapping rules from UML to OWL/RDF will improve the ontology and mapping rules should be an ongoing activity, according to experience from the communities. In addition, ISO/TC 211 should link to existing vocabularies and extend other vocabularies applied in e-Government with our spatial extensions where needed.
-In the revision cycles of ISO/TC 211 standards, focus should be given to investigate if there are other and more generic IT standards which it would be relevant to build geospatial extensions on top of. Of particular focus are standards from ISO/IEC JTC1 and W3C, which are most focused in e-Government communities. This comes as an extension to the cooperative work between ISO/TC 211 and OGC .
For ISO 19119 the following was discussed:
ISO 19119 Services should be revised. It does not take into consideration the Open API. On the other hand, much of content in the standard is still relevant.
ISO 19119 is identical to OGC Topic 12(?). OGC (Scott) has also expressed an interest in revising it.
A special attention on how this should be related to/ aligned with OGC API common that serves as a foundation upon which all OGC APIs will be built. The candidate standard identifies resources, captures compliance classes, and specifies requirements that are applicable to all OGC API standard.
API's are vital to the digital transformation.