[ESIP-AQ] [esip-semanticweb] help with marking up WMS/WCS Capability docs?

[Wilson, Brian D (335G)]

John et al,

Machine tags or triple tags are simply tags that have
three parts:  namespace:facet=value.

They were first invented for geotagging (e.g. geo:long=-172.3),
but they can be used more generally for 'faceted' tagging.

See the discussions at Wikipedia and Flickr below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/


The best discussion I've read of the power of tagging is
Gene Smith's "Tagging" book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=QKBlAcdkMwsC&dq=tagging+smith&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=HqTMM8Q3I9&sig=Q7AlqqbVyRhaQ9TVTyj1GTYp4LE&hl=en&ei=KX5fSoPtG9G9lAez2JSlDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1


Hope this helps,

 -- Brian



-----Original Message-----
From: John Graybeal [mailto:graybeal at mbari.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:35 PM
To: Wilson, Brian D (335G)
Cc: Christopher Lynnes; esip-semanticweb at rtpnet.org; esip-aqcluster at rtpnet.org
Subject: Re: [esip-semanticweb] [ESIP-AQ] help with marking up WMS/WCS Capability docs?

Can you all describe what you mean by 'machine tags'?

John

On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Wilson, Brian D (335G) wrote:

> Chris et al,
>
> Machine tags are certainly the fastest way to start specifying
> a controlled set of facets and values.  They can serve as a way
> to populate instances into a fuller ontology to be supplied later.
>
> I don't think RDFa is suitable for insertion into XML files.
>
> -- Brian
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: esip-aqcluster-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:esip-aqcluster-bounces at rtpnet.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Christopher Lynnes
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:54 PM
> To: esip-semanticweb at rtpnet.org
> Cc: esip-aqcluster at rtpnet.org; Erin Robinson
> Subject: [ESIP-AQ] help with marking up WMS/WCS Capability docs?
>
> Greetings!
>
> Over in the Air Quality Cluster, we are experimenting with using some
> kind of structured markup / tagging of OGC WMS and WCS capabilities
> documents (inside <Keyword> elements) to allow us to do structured
> searches on the documents.  An example might be, "give me the layers
> where Dataset = 'OMI_AI_G'". Seehttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/WMS_GetCapabilities#WMS_GetCapabilities_Layer_Description
>
> Thing is, we figure if we are going to try to implement this kind of
> markup with a quasi-controlled vocabulary, we should do it in such a
> way that it is compatible with or even leverages the semantic web.  We
> have pondered a machine tags approach, e.g.,
> <Keyword>esip:dataset=OMI_AI_G</Keyword>.  (A link to an initial
> attempt of a WMS that includes the current keyword encoding: http://webapps.datafed.net/AIRNOW.ogc?service=wms&request=getCapabilities&version=1.1.1)
> .
>
> Alternatively, we have heard RDFa mentioned for microformats, though
> mostly in the context of XHTML.  Can this be applied to OGC's XML and
> if so, how?
>
> Can the ESIP Semantic Web cluster provide a recommendation or
> suggestion in how to move forward that would be:
> (a) flexible and extensible,
> (b) compatible with the evolving ESIP datatype and services ontology  
> and
> (c) lightweight and easy to use?
> --
> Christopher Lynnes             NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2
> 301-614-5185
>
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