[auscope-geosciml] Time Scale

[Boisvert, Eric]

oh, another thing.  I don't have an HTML version (yet). So only text/xml is available.  

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Objet : [auscope-geosciml] Time Scale




Hi all. 

I tested the time scale schema and implemented the URI resolution (which was the original goal). 

The whole chart is here 

http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifierScheme/ICS/StratChart/2010 <http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifierScheme/ICS/StratChart/2010>  

And internal reference (trs:member) are also resolvable 

Eg: 

http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifier/ICS/StratChart/2010/PZ <http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifier/ICS/StratChart/2010/PZ>  

This subset will only report the two boundaries that are used for this specific GeochronologicEra 

An interesting side effect of the implementation is this URL 

http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifier/ICS/StratChart/2010/Q,PZ,CZ <http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.nrcan.gc.ca:8080/Reference/uri-cgi/classifier/ICS/StratChart/2010/Q,PZ,CZ>  

Will return all Q,PZ and CZ, although I'm pretty sure it's intended to be used that way. 

I do have a couple of questions about my serialization 

A) what Am I suppose to do with 

<gt:geochronologicEraType> 
  <gt:GeochronologicEraTypeTerm/> 
  </gt:geochronologicEraType> 


The schema just says it's an abstract object.  Look like there is a term list missing (or should it be a CGI_Term ?) 

B) If I understand correctly, all the boudary ages should be list individually at the bottom, should these NumericEraBoundary also have a full identity (URI) and be individually resolvable ?

C) Did I get the encoding of the value correctly ?  I have two examples 

<gt:referencePoint> 
                <gt:NumericEraBoundary gml:id="age.K2d-K2c"> 
                        <gml:name>K2d-K2c</gml:name> 
                        <trs:position> 
                                <gml:TimeInstant> 
                                        <gml:timePosition calendarEraName="MA">85.8</gml:timePosition> 
                                </gml:TimeInstant> 
                        </trs:position> 
                        <gt:status>unknown</gt:status> 
                </gt:NumericEraBoundary> 
        </gt:referencePoint> 
        <gt:referencePoint> 
                <gt:StandardGlobalNumericalAge gml:id="age.NPR2-NPR1"> 
                        <gml:name>NPR2-NPR1</gml:name> 
                        <trs:position> 
                                <gml:TimeInstant> 
                                        <gml:timePosition calendarEraName="MA">850</gml:timePosition> 
                                </gml:TimeInstant> 
                        </trs:position> 
                        <gt:status>unknown</gt:status> 
                </gt:StandardGlobalNumericalAge> 
        </gt:referencePoint> 

I have used NumericEraBoundaries because I did not search all the detailed description for boundaries (and create GeochronologicBoundaries), but I used StandardGlobalNumericalAge when the age are defined by definition (such as Precambrian boundaries).

Did I get this correctly ? 

Also, I'm not sure how to encode the gml:timePosition (calendarEraName in particular).  I just put MA for now. 

D) should the  NumericEraBoundary provides all the nextEra and previousEra too ? 

E) Any other comments ? 

Eric 

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Eric Boisvert 
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