[wg/sdw] Spatial Data on the Web Working Group Charter

[bert-github]

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

At this time, the draft is still incomplete. (That is why it does not yet have the "Horizontal review requested" label.) In particular, it lacks a "motivation and background" section and better text about how OGC members can join the group.

Charter Review

Proposed SDW WG charter

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Diff from previous charter

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Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, security, and TAG. Also add a "card" for this issue to the Strategy Funnel.

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Where would charter proponents like to see issues raised? (this strategy funnel issue, a different github repo, email, ...): w3c/charter-drafts

Anything else we should think about as we review?

Note: proposed chairs should be copied @... on this issue: @ldesousa, @rob-metalinkage

[svgeesus]

Overall the charter looks good.

I was unsure what this sentence was intended to mean:

The following existing specifications are potentially in scope for maintenance:

1. Each specification might be in scope or it might not
2. Each specification is in scope, and if it needs maintenance then it may be maintained

[svgeesus]

In particular, it lacks a "motivation and background" section

I see that it does now have that section.

[ruoxiran]

APA would like to be listed in the liaison groups. so we want to hear about work in the early stages, is that, whilst you are developing low-level APIs, there may be semantic metadata that have an impact on accessibility – either things we’d like you to include to promote accessibility, or accessibility risks relating to things you are proposing to include.

[himorin]

no comment or request from i18n

[plehegar]

Advance notice

[plehegar]

No comment from PING

[plehegar]

Some copy-editing improvements:

• the only sentence in the 3 paragraph Motivation and Background section thats doing any work / needed is “The overarching goal of the SDWWG is to enable spatial data to be integrated within the wider Web of data; developing and maintaining standard patterns and specifications addressing these problems.” (not a normative concern, of course)
• Again, there are abbreviations and references to other specs and technologies all over this charter that are not clear to the reader. I have no idea what a “SSN Ontology” or “SOSA vocabulary” vocabulary are when they’re described in the Scope section. Just some links and things would help!

[simoneonofri]

No comments from Security

[ruoxiran]

no comments from APA.