Proposal for an extension: GEO-SKG

[nuest]

Name: Geospatial metadata for research products

Acronym or suggested repo name: ext-geo-skg

Proponent(s): Daniel Nüst

Brief motivation: Geospatial metadata has the potential to act as a cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary integrator of academic resources. Geospatial coordinates and timestamps are a very well-defined reference system an can connect research products from any discipline via direct (where and when was the data captured) and indirect (what regions are stories, artifacts, people connected with) relations.

This extension add extra properties to the core entity research product to model geospatial metadata, i.e., the location (point, line, region/polygon) and time stamp(s), in machine-readable and human-readable form. As part of the extension, we will also provide suggested crosswalks of specific properties to other metadata schemas or publication options, such as Dublin Core, Schema.org, or HTML meta tags.
Furthermore, it enables the creation of regional narratives by linking together diverse research products and exploration of research products using cartographic methods, e.g., interactive maps.

The GEO-SKG extension could be conceptualised in the context of the project KOMET in order to support discovery and findability of the long tail of research products.

[andremann]

Hi, apologies for the delay.

As the RDA WG will wrap up in late June (don't worry, we'll move into maintenance mode), we are in the process of documenting better the extension process, fixing a few things here and there, and providing full-fledged Open API specs that will affect the extension development as well.

Provided you are aware of this moving landscape, we can still prepare the repository for you to start off.
Or, if you prefer, we can back it off until we get things more stable.

Let me know! Cheers!

[nuest]

I'm happy to wait a bit, and leave this here in case someone else has a similar interest or to gather feedback on the idea.

Is that fine with you?

[andremann]

Hi Daniel,

would it be possible to join our next WG meeting to talk a bit about your extension proposal?
We will reconvene on the 14th of November @ 10am CET

[nuest]

Hi @andremann ! That works for me - can you send me the details to daniel.nuest@tu-dresden.de ?

[andremann]

Extension approved! I will update the ticket once the repo is ready (ASAP).

[andremann]

Hi Daniel, apologies for the late reply. Busy period...

This extension has been assigned the acronym geo-skg. You will find the intended file structure and placeholders.
The repo is already integrated with GitHub actions, and it is compiled when commits are pushed to the remote; you can see the minisite rendered here.
As you can see, the extension is hidden in the left menu; you can look for geo-skg in the top search bar or use the breadcrumbs to navigate the structure.

[andremann]

Hi @nuest, is there any update for this?