ISO co-publication
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GeoSPARQL could be adopted as an ISO standard by ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics since there is a process defined for co-adoption.
Co-listing of GeoSPARQL 1.2 as an ISO standard has been raised within TC-211 at the May, 2022 Advisory Group 6 (Group on ontology Management) and has received in principle support from TC-211.
The procedure could be:
- inform the ISO of the intention to prepare GeoSPARQL 1.2 for co-listing
- request ISO feedback early in GeoSPARQL 1.2 scope formulation as to the applicability of proposed GeoSPARQL 1.2 for ISO
- ISO staff to recommend enhancement of GeoSPARQL for 1.2 to align with ISO expectations
- could be document style, branding, referencing etc.
However, wouldn't that involve a whole other review round?
My experience with ISO is that everything goes on 3-month cycles, and you are likely to receive 100s or even 1000s of comments to process.
There is, apparently, some shortcut process of taking a document that is proposed as an OGC spec and then quick adopting it at ISO, but I'm not familiar with the process yet. We will have to find this out.
It's been discussed that co-adoption of GeoSPARQL 1.1 is likely the way to go. Maybe co-adoption of GeoSPARQL 1.1 with minimal changes for ISO alignment results in a GeoSPARQL 1.2 and then the changes proposed currently for 1.2 actually created a 1.3. Really depends on how large any ISO changes are.