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Document that vectorization of observed properties and result is accepted practice #176

Closed alexrobin closed 5 months ago

alexrobin commented 5 months ago

As discussed in our last call, I would like this to be documented somewhere in an informative part of the document so that I can refer to it from Connected Systems.

dr-shorthair commented 5 months ago

Good point. How's this:

https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/complex-properties-results/ssn/index.html#SOSAObservation

https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/complex-properties-results/ssn/index.html#SOSAActuation

dr-shorthair commented 5 months ago

Could also be added to the modeling patterns section.

alexrobin commented 5 months ago

I like it. An alternative would be to consider these "vector" cases as small Observation/Actuation Collections.

Now that we have the collection pattern allowing members of the collection to basically inherit anything defined at the collection level, this seems to be a special case of collections where everything is inherited except the observedProperty and the result value.

alexrobin commented 5 months ago

Sorry I just realized that the updated description in Observation and Actuation also refer to the collection pattern to handle these use cases, so I'm good.