Re: About the location class in the Core Location Vocabulary (locn)

Hello Cristiano,

I would venture to say that using the name of an organization as a
geographicName is inappropriate.

Perhaps a definition of what a geographical name is can be of service.
Geographical names are "Names of areas, regions, localities, cities,
suburbs, towns or settlements, or any geographical or topographical feature
of public or historical interest.". This is a defintion from the INSPIRE
data specification for Geogaphical Names
<http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Data_Specifications/INSPIRE_DataSpecification_GN_v3.0.1.pdf>
that
LOCN refers to. A geographic name is something that could be used in a
gazetteer, a single name to indicate a certain location. Examples are
'Berlin', 'Sahara', 'Eiffel tower', 'Mississippi'. So a geographic name is
a text label for a location.

I would say the name of an organization in general is not the label of a
location, but of an organization.

If you want to use the geographicName property (you don't have to), I would
suggest you use it to refer to the name of the city, neighbourhood, or
building in which the event is taking place.

Regards,
Frans



2015-09-04 17:18 GMT+02:00 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>:

> Forwarding this to the correct list.
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> Subject: About the location class in the Core Location Vocabulary (locn)
> Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:54:34 +0000
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> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:54:02 +0200
> From: cristiano longo <cristianolongo@gmail.com>
> To: <semantic-web@w3.org> <semantic-web@w3.org>
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> Hi, I'm using the LOCN vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/ns/locn) to describe
> event places. Now a location can have associated an address and a
> "geometry" (usually point coordinates). In addition, a geographicName can
> be associated to the object.
> The description in the vocabulary specification for this property is the
> following:
>
> "A geographic name is a proper noun applied to a spatial object."
>
> Now the event I'm currently modelling take place in the principal site of
> an organization (see the Organization ontology,
> http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/).
>
> Saying that I have specified that the location is the principal site of the
> organization, should I use the organization name as geographicName of the
> Location instance or it is inappropriate?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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