Re: Property "geographic identifier" in LOCN (was: Re: ISA Core Location Vocabulary)

>
>  My opinion is that the vocabulary must contain a property like the
>>> proposed
>>> "geographic identifier" to ensure interoperability with existing
>>> geospatial
>>> tools/datasets. We have found this property to be of great importance,
>>> as far as
>>> interoperability and adoption of Linked Data technologies from domain
>>> experts are
>>>
>>
> Yes, but then you need a reification instead of a role as you may have
> multiple geographic identifiers coming from multiple (authoritative)
> datasets. We are currently finishing our work on a gazetteer schema and are
> having similar thoughts and issues.
>

I am not sure exactly why reification is necessary instead of just multiple
triples but I am looking forward in seeing this schema.
It is definitely very interesting!

Cheers,
Kostis