Yes, "web of services" sounds good - but connected to the general web. This is why I'm in favor of not only extending GetCapabilities but also
> 1. extending robots.txt (see [1]) > 2. extending links/META tags in HTML ([1]) So I mostly agree with you but are unsure why you don't comment on proposal 1. and 2.: you agree extending these three "protocols"? Put yourself into the situation of a so called focussed webcrawler: How do you guess which link to follow in the general web without these "see" and "see also" links? Yours, Stefan 2009/7/23 Sean Gillies <[email protected]>: > Stefan, > > You're talking about capabilities documents linking to other capabilities > documents, forming a "web of services"? I think it's probably going to be > more profitable to exploit one of the bigger, more fertile webs (using HTML > or RDF), each of which have proven techniques for making your content > discoverable. > > Sean > > On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: > >> How about getting better auto-discovery in the Geo-Web? >> How about more special search engines for geospatial webservices? >> >> Approach: Step 1. a focussed crawler is referred to a webservice given >> a (root) geo-website (“see” link) and step 2. the referrer and/or the >> geo-webservice indicates one or more "friends" ("see also" link, [2]). >> In other words, a porter points to the webservices - which is like a >> finding needle in the haystack - and he and the found needles point >> you to other needles! >> >> These are the proposals I've collected so far: >> >> 1. extending robots.txt (see [1]) >> 2. extending links/META tags in HTML ([1]) >> 3. extending (geo-)sitemaps (www.sitemaps.org), and >> 4. extending GetCapabilities >> >> What do you think? >> >> Regards, S. >> >> P.S. I favor 1,2 and 4. And I know I rather should ask geo-metadata >> specialists (which I'll do) - but I think this is the right place to >> start with. >> >> [1] >> http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2006-November/001656.html >> . >> [2] http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-friends.htm . >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- > Sean Gillies > Software Engineer > Institute for the Study of the Ancient World > New York University > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
