ISSUE-45 (RegAddress): Align treatment of registered addresses between Org and RegOrg [Organization Ontology]

ISSUE-45 (RegAddress): Align treatment of registered addresses between Org and RegOrg [Organization Ontology]

http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/45

Raised by: Richard Cyganiak
On product: Organization Ontology

It seems there is a relationship between rov:registeredAddress and org:hasRegisteredSite/org:siteAddress that should be documented. Ideally, there should be uniform treatment. It would be unfortunate if ORG requires one encoding for the address, and RegOrg requires an incompatible second one.

>From the thread at http://www.w3.org/mid/5088EFD3.4040600@gmail.com :

ORG uses vCard. However, vCard is not INSPIRE conformant. The registeredAddress property is intended to link to an INSPIRE-conformant address class soon. This relates to the LOCADD CG which is currently being held up by a bit of EC bureaucracy. On the other hand, it is unclear why "INSPIRE compatibility" (with its European focus) should be a requirement for a W3C spec, though it is understandable why it is for ISA.

Among our options are:

(1) To find a way to encode INSPIRE conformant addresses within vCard.

(2) Have RegOrg use org:hasRegisteredSite and then have it or some other (possibly non-GLD) vocabulary provide a non-vcard means to express addresses of a site. Using a resource to identify a site, independent of the particular serialization conventions for its address, is probably a good thing, and may be something that RegOrg could adopt. There's nothing to stop an org:Site having other expressions of address information.

Received on Thursday, 25 October 2012 08:23:02 UTC