https://www.dbdump.org/taxonomy/term/16 en https://www.dbdump.org/news/2014/03/presentation-at-ldg2014-from-the-trenches---api-issues-in-linked-geo-data.html <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="w3c83h.png" class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.dbdump.org/news/assets_c/2014/09/w3c83h-thumb-119x57-84.png" style="float: right; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; width: 119px; height: 57px;" /></p> <div> <a href="http://www.dbdump.org/~warren/publications/publications.html#warren:lgd:2014">From the trenches - API issues in Linked Geo Data</a></div> <div> <a href="http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/">Linking Geospatial Data Workshop</a></div> <div> 5th - 6th March 2014, Campus London, Shoreditch, UK</div> <div>  </div> <div> Joint work with David Evans</div> <div>  </div> <div> This paper reports on the experiences of building a linked geo data coordinates translation API and some of the issues that arose in the process.  Beyond the basic capacities of SPARQL, a specialized API was constructed to translate obsolete British Trench Map coordinates from the Great War into modern WGS84 reference systems.  Concerns over current methods of recording geographic information along with accuracy and precision of information are discussed.  Open questions about managing the opportunistic enrichment of geographical instances are discussed as well as the scalability pitfalls therein.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Note: The final report on the workshop can be <a href="http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/report">read here</a>.</div> <div class="asset-footer">  </div> <!--break--></div></div></div><div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> Undefined </div> <div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Presentation</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lod</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/16" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Geospatial</a></div></div></div> Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:15:17 +0000 warren 10 at https://www.dbdump.org https://www.dbdump.org/news/2014/03/presentation-at-ldg2014-from-the-trenches---api-issues-in-linked-geo-data.html#comments