tweaks on https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/

[VladimirAlexiev]

hi @mgh128 nice new stuff on https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/! I think you added "View mode:" recently?

Tweaks needed (cc @CraigRe):

• Rename Code URI to Class and Property because
  • in JSON these are not URIs
  • in RDF you talk of classes and props, not "class URI" and "prop URI"
• when "View mode: JSON" is selected on a Class page, it strips the prefix from the first (title) class name, but not from:
  • property names
  • "Superclass:"
• In contrast "View mode: JSON" on https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/?show=fields shows prop names with stripped prefix
• externally defined classes jump to internal ("ref") URLs and show nothing:
  • !!! The "back" arrow from such blank page doesn't work: it goes to the prev URL but doesn't show page content. Serious UX breakage
  • WebVoc: eg the value type on https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/bizLocation jumps to https://ref.gs1.org/gs1/Place.
    Instead, they should jump to https://www.gs1.org/voc/Place, where they show stuff.
    Unless WebVoc will be rehosted to ref, are there such plans?? That would be disruptive imho
  • XSD: eg the value type on https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/action jumps to https://ref.gs1.org/xsd/boolean.
    These should jump to https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema/#boolean
    (or just don't show a link, as for URI, assuming everyone knows what's xsd:boolean)
• https://ref.gs1.org/epcis/?show=fields uses the metadata field epcis:jsonLdProp (spelling?) to cast all of epcis:bizTransactionType, epcis:measurementType, epcis:sourceOrDestinationType to just type. However, you need to sort by this stripped name, else the page shows 3 instances of type which is confusing. Here are two:

[mgh128]

Hi @VladimirAlexiev
Thanks for the feedback. I don't disagree with what you wrote and it's also possible that some glitches occurred when we hosted the ontology browsers at ref.gs1.org. Provided we don't need to make changes to the underlying ratified JSON-LD / Turtle ontology files, I should be able to prepare these updates but probably won't be able to focus on those until mid-December at the earliest, since I'm still busy updating the GS1 Tag Data Translation standard, some of which hasn't been updated since I wrote large chunks of it in 2005, so some sections of that are now embarrassingly outdated. Review and updates to the GLN Data Model (and corresponding updates to the GS1 Web vocabulary) are also keeping me very busy at the moment. I'll add the updates to the EPCIS/CBV ontology browsers to my to-do list and hopefully you'll see some improvements early next year.

[VladimirAlexiev]

Hi @mgh128, do you have an update?

[mgh128]

Hi @VladimirAlexiev - not yet. I'm still busy doing the final testing and correction for TDT 2.0. When that is out of the way, I can try to make those updates to the browser. Thanks for the feedback you provided.