RE: Looking into the terms "floor" and "storey"

Hello, 
in recent project where british architect
 is involved, terminology for the different levels are :


Ground floor : the floor which lays on the level "right above the ground or on it" 
Basement :  "1st Basement";  "2nd Basement" ; "Basement floor"  etc.
floors above the ground floor:   "1st floor"; "2nd floor"; "3rd floor"

In Czech republic on its own You may find two terminology habbits which are slightly different.  ( One has need to be carefulll about what level, floor is talking with the other via phone or in particular cases to understand each other) . 

But all of these are strictly "absolute" namings.  Not a relative ones. There are cases when you need to "attach" absolute namings to relative ones differently in each project.

So for keeping it clear for anyone (especially in multinational cooperated working theams), 
 there is reason to diferentiate the "relative" and "absolute" terms  simiralry, 
like  the  "degree Celsius" and "degree Kelvin"  differentiate between each other.

Always is better to suggest higher flexibility let users to define on the start of the project definition for the project on its own (and ontly that project) :

let be  project with name TESCO, 
let have this project TESCO two parts,  project-part A and project-part B

let be  :  Basement floor  a  1st level   in a  project-part A
let be : Basement floor  a 2nd level   in a project-part B


And that means,   level is not the same that the floor in this particular project  and this is temporarily defined in the specified project where circumstances shows the necessity to distinguish names like that. 

best regards


Ing. Richard Pinka 
Student doktorského studia / PhD student, 
Katedra inženýrské informatiky    /  Department  of  Applied Informatics
tel.: 608 261 385
Fakulta stavební                                     / Faculty of Civil Engineering 
ČVUT v Praze                                         / CTU in Prague

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Schneider <schneidergeorg@gmx.net> 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:00 AM
To: public-lbd@w3.org
Subject: Looking into the terms "floor" and "storey"

Hi all!

after a discussion in the last meeting I looked up the two terms storey and floor.

Apparently both are synonyms [1]. However, "storey" is BE and "story" is AE.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/storey


I was wondering if we might introduce skos:altLabel in BOT and introduce both synonyms?

Best

Georg

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