Consider scalable solutions to deliver semantic annotations to web map clients

[rob-metalinkage]

The transition to JSON based OpenAPI services provides the opportunity to link schema elements to semantic annotations via JSON-LD. This is not trivial, but can be managed by implementing Feature Type Catalogs that combine schemas and JSON-LD contexts, such as is being done be schema.org, the W3C Wot (web of things), smart-cities-data-models .

The OGC has recently started exploring how to achieve this at scale.

Refer to https://ogcincubator.github.io/bblocks-docs/ for more information.

Happy to support a challenge to implement such Feature Type Catalogues and in-build client capabilities to exploit this to make information understandable by users.

[rob-metalinkage]

Note that semantic annotations are intrinsically multi-lingual ready, and can provide a framework for crowd-sourcing translations for common data models..

[hfu]

Wow, thank you @rob-metalinkage (https://www.ogc.org/our-team/rob-atkinson/) for the issue.

We have several friends with computer-science background. Hopefully there may be a friend who want to work on Feature Type Catalogues!

[hfu]

Tentatively assigned @rob-metalinkage to this issue. Please let me know it is not appropriate.

As I understand, we can proceed on this issue if anyone in the group are interested in working on this, because Rob kindly offered some support a challenge to implement such Feature Type Catalogues and in-build client capabilities. Let us see how we can take this advantage.