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

Thank you very much!
Il 04/set/2015 05:55 PM, "Frans Knibbe" <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> ha scritto:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: About the location class in the Core Location Vocabulary (locn)
>> Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:54:34 +0000
>> Resent-From: semantic-web@w3.org
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:54:02 +0200
>> From: cristiano longo <cristianolongo@gmail.com>
>> To: <semantic-web@w3.org> <semantic-web@w3.org>
>>
>> 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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