Invitation to join the Worldwide Web Consortium W3C POI WG (see below)
"Scope:
The Points of Interest (POI) Working Group will develop a
specification for representing Points of Interest, including common
properties such as the name, location and shape, while also ensuring
extensibility.
For the purposes of this Working Group, a "Point of Interest" is
defined simply as an entity at a physical location about which
information is available. For example, the Taj Mahal
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal> in India is a point of
interest, located at 27.174799° N, 78.042111°E (in the WGS84
geodetic system). Additional information could be associated with
it, such as: it was completed around 1653, has a particular shape,
and that it is open to visitors during specific hours.
Points of Interest information is used in a wide variety of
applications such as: augmented reality ("AR"), mapping and
navigation systems, geocaching, etc. This group will primarily focus
on POI use within AR applications but will strive to ensure
reusability across applications. /(*Note:* For the purposes of this
charter, the term "augmented reality" is used to refer to
applications that combine a view of the physical world with
information.)/
The objective of the POI WG is to develop a Recommendation that
defines a POI data format that allows digital content publishers to
effectively describe and efficiently serve points of interest data.
In addition, the WG may develop additional Recommendations and Notes
that extend the format for particular use cases, such as AR. The WG
is also expecting to produce Notes about augmented reality and how
best to re-use and/or influence current and future W3C Recommendations."
IMHO, This a great entry point from our zone of geospatial thinking .
Based on the scope of and starting point for this work, there is
enormous overlap and potential serious redundancy in formation of new
data structures and architectures that geographers, gis types, geo
hackers, and geo semantic web hackers have already thrashed out and
normalized after years of discourse, hacking and real world use.
imho, Strong input from the geo computing communities is essential at
this starting point for formal AR data structures.
~ mike liebhold
see following:
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Ian Jacobs
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:32 PM
To: W3C Members
Subject: Join the Points of Interest Working Group (Call for Participation)
Advisory Committee representative,
This is a Call for Participation in the Points of Interest Working
Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
If your organization wishes to join this group, please first review the
group's charter:
http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/charter/
and homepage:
http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/
Then use the following form to join the group; the form will also
instruct you how to nominate participants:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/45386/join
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact
the Chair, Andrew Braun <[email protected]>, or the Team
Contact, Matt Womer <[email protected]>.
This Call for Participation follows section 6.2.4 of the W3C Process
Document:
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#cfp
Thank you,
For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead, and Matt Womer, Ubiquitous
Web Applications Activity Lead; Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
--
Ian Jacobs ([email protected]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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