geo is currently used in jena spatial for w3c geo predicates. and it will be used in the new geosparql module for jena/fuseki as an internal prefix for geosparql keywords. this might be our main concern here. I don't see a consensus on the web for re-purposing the geo prefix from w3c to ogc at the moment besides the adoption of geo for ogc by wikidata. (by the way this reassignment of geo might have been an ad hoc decision by a developer or group of developers in the wikidata project by simply looking up the ogc spec)
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:33 PM Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marco, > > Where is' geo' being used? > > Andy > > > On 12/12/2018 12:16, Marco Neumann wrote: > > What do people on the list think about re-using the namespace prefix geo? > > > > it's currently used for > > > > WGS84 Geo Positioning: an RDF vocabulary > > http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# > > > > but becomes more popular (e.g. see wikidata) as a namespace prefix for > > > > OGC GeoSPARQL 1.0 > > http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql# > > > > I would have preferred to see the OGC introduce a new namespace prefix > like > > geosparql but for some reason they settled on replacing geo (W3C ) with > > geosparql (OGC) and geof for functions. Technically not a big deal but > that > > said most people would have to change their existing data to refer to the > > new URI now to accommodate the change. > > > > Alternatively we could just introduce geosparql or ogcgeo as a new > > namespace prefix in jena projects for OGC gesparql to avoid confusion. I > am > > sure the re-purposing of the geo namespace prefix was a "mistake" at the > > time of OGC geosparql (Ed. Matthew Perry and John Herring Oracle) > > discussions. No need to perpetuate this change into the future here. > > > > What are your thoughts on this? > > > > > > > -- --- Marco Neumann KONA
