Re: Property "geographic identifier" in LOCN

Dear Kostis,

> GNIS ids are just one case of identifiers, so I think I agree with you
> in having an undefined range for this property.
> Otherwise, we would have to introduce just-another-unique-identifier
> that would then have some properties linking to a GNIS id for example,
> but after all IK think it would be a bit superfluous.

We are converging :-) So, it seems we agree on the fact that the vocab 
should recommend a property to represent a GNIS id (or another legacy 
identifier) of a geographic object. The range of this property should 
also be unconstrained (i.e. the value can be a URI or a literal). 
Options are:
   - minting a new property in the locn vocabulary for this purpose
   - re-using an existing property.

rdf:seeAlso (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_seealso) has an 
unconstrained range ... therefore, what would be wrong in using this 
property for this purpose?

locn would probably want to add a (recommendation) note explaining what 
the seeAlso means in the locn context (i.e. bridge to legacy GNIS or 
other identifiers), which brings us back to the question on how this 
should be done in the vocabulary specification. We are indeed here 
lacking some good practices recommendation (see also the email from 
Andrea, 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-locadd/2014Jan/0037.html).
Best regards.

   Raphaël

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Received on Tuesday, 7 January 2014 11:16:33 UTC