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standards implication of combining non-traditional data sources with traditional (or authoritative) sources #50

Open ogcscotts opened 6 years ago

jyutzler commented 6 years ago

I was unable to attend this session last week, but I believe that traditional metadata is fundamentally broken because it fails to answer the fundamental question "is this resource fit for this particular purpose"? The people responsible for the metadata are rarely willing and able to document the elements that will allow people to answer that question. Therefore I see little reason to treat authoritative and non-authoritative data sources separately. If the software industry has figured out anything in the last decade, it is social and is not metadata.

Resources are fit for use by virtue of the fact that they are being used and we can use social to track what is being used by whom. While individual communities of interest may have specialized rules for what constitutes fit for use, this isn't OGC's problem because no one outside that community cares about their rules. If [insert TLA here] is using this data operationally, by golly we can probably use it too.

What OGC could do is help organizations get a handle on the social problem so that resource use can be tracked, recorded, and shared.

PeterParslow commented 6 years ago

Sounds like the work of the Quality of Service & Experience DWG!

I would love the output of that work - a 'standard' for disemminating the emerging consensus of 'social'? - structured in such a way that it can be used in conjunction with 'traditional metadata' or separately. Otherwise, major data publishing segments are unlikely to pick up on it anyway.

Of course, this is just one of the implications of combining 'non-traditional' and 'traditional'