John,
Mea culpa for inserting the provocative P.S. about OGC philosophies on
the preceding message. If it is a topic that deserves discussion in the
context of CF, then it deserves to have its own thread.
Lets return this discussion to the (more answerable) topic of dates and
times and how far CF standard_names ought to go in capturing the
detailed semantics associated with instrument observations.
- Steve
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John Graybeal wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Steve Hankin wrote:
>> The marine community is hoping to use the OGC standards process to
>> develop XML schemas that capture the full semantic richness of all
>> measurements that the community may want to interchange.
>
> Maybe I missed that memo, but I don't think OGC or marine community
> has said they are hoping to achieve this. ("Full semantic richness" is
> well past any of our retirement ages, I'm pretty sure.)
>
> The part of the goal that I know about, and subscribe to, is much more
> modest: to be able to refer to a specific concept unambiguously, and
> be able to define relationships -- recognizable to both humans and
> computers -- between that concept and other concepts.
>
> I think that goal will be achieved in a first incarnation in 20 days,
> not 20 years. Will it be robust, flawless, impeccable semantic
> representation of the world and our understanding of it? No, nor will
> it ever be. Will it be a huge step forward from the days of 'sal' and
> 'T'? Very much so. (Though we have to say, a lot of the semantic
> vision and capabilities reflect things that vocabulary communities
> like CF have been working on for a long time. All OGC and the semantic
> web people want to do is formalize the referencing of the terms and
> their relationships.)
>
> Apologies if this approximation is too ... approximate.
>
> John
>
>
>
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