Merge pull request #534 from ldesousa/sdwwg

Spatial Data on the Web Working Group (SDWWG) 2024 charter

2024/sdw-wg.html

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ <h1 id=title>PROPOSED Spatial Data on the Web Working Group
           <tr>
             <th> Chairs
 
-            <td>Luis de Sousa (ISRIC)
+              <td><a href=http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5851-2071>Luís de Sousa</a> (University of Lisbon)
               <br>Rob Atkinson (OGC)
 
           <tr>
@@ -169,6 +169,42 @@ <h2>Motivation and Background</h2>
           relationship to the Web, users, developers, implementers, and
           industry.</i>
 
+
+      <p> Increasing numbers of Web applications provide a means of accessing
+      data. From simple visualisations to sophisticated interactive tools, there
+      is a growing reliance on data. The open data movement has led to many
+      national, regional and local governments to publish their data on the Web.
+      Scientific and cultural heritage data is likewise increasingly published
+      this way for reuse by others. Crowd-sourced and social media data are too
+      abundant on the Web. Sensors, connected devices and services from domains
+      such as energy, transport, manufacturing and healthcare are becoming
+      commonly integrated using the Web as a common data sharing platform.
+
+      <p> The Spatial Data on the Web Working Group (SDWWG) is concerned with 
+      spatial data: 
+      data that describes anything with spatial extent (i.e. size, 
+      shape or position). Spatial data is
+      also known as location information. The SDWWG acknowledges lingering
+      challenges with the provision of spatial data
+      identified in the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-bp/">Data on the Web
+      Best Practices</a> (DWBP) document. The SDWWG thus commits to realise the
+      full potential of the Web as a data sharing platform, developing, promoting
+      and maintaining resources enabling the consistent and inter-linked 
+      provision of spatial data.   
+
+      <p> Spatial data are in fact abundant on the Web; the maps and street level
+      images offered by search engines, vast collections of Earth Observation
+      products provided by government agencies, the results of Research projects
+      on a myriad of domains, spatial features published by commercial companies
+      seeking to expand user and client engagement. These are but a few examples
+      of a growing universe of spatial data available on the Web. However, these
+      are often difficult to find and problematic to access for non-specialist
+      users. The key problems are discoverability, accessibility, and
+      interoperability. 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.
+
       <p><i class=todo>[Under development
 	  in <a href="https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/pull/534"
 	  >GitHub pull request 534</a>.]</i>
@@ -636,9 +672,9 @@ <h2> Communication</h2>
         will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and
         will be conducted on an as-needed basis.
 
-      <p>This group primarily conducts its technical work <i class=todo>pick one, or both, as appropriate:</i> on the
+      <p>This group primarily conducts its technical work on the
         public mailing list <a class=todo href="mailto:[email protected]" id=public-name>[email protected]</a> (<a
-          class=todo href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/">archive</a>) <i class=todo>or</i> on <a
+          class=todo href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/">archive</a>) and on <a
           class=todo href="https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues" id=public-github>GitHub issues</a>. The public is invited
         to review, discuss
         and contribute to this work.