- From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:38:47 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
On 12-04-03 02:33 PM, Phil Archer wrote: > I'm hoping for a bit of advice and rather than talk in the usual generic > terms I'll use the actual example I'm working on. > > I want to define the best way to record a person's sex (this is related > to the W3C GLD WG's forthcoming spec on describing a Person [1]). To > encourage interoperability, we want people to use a controlled > vocabulary and there are several that cover this topic. > > ISO 5218 has: > 0 = not known; > 1 = male; > 2 = female; > 9 = not applicable. > > and Eurostat offers > F = female > M = male > OTH = other > UNK = unknown > NAP = not applicable > > IMO, the spec should not dictate which one to use (there are others too > of course). What I *do* want to do though is to encourage publishers to > state which vocabulary they're using. Sounds like a job for a datatype - > and for that you need a URI for the vocabulary. Something like: > > schema:gender "1"^^<http://iso.org/5218/> . > > Except I made that iso.org URI up. The actual URI for it is > http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=36266 > (or rather, that's the page about the spec but that's a side issue for > now). > > That URI is just horrible and certainly not a 'cool URI'. The Eurostat > one is no better. > > Does the datatype URI have to resolve to anything (in theory no, but in > practice? Would a URN be appropriate? > > Given that the identifier for the ISO standard is "ISO/IEC 5218:2004" > how about urn:iso/iec:5218:2005? > > For Eurostat, the internal identifier for the vocabulary is "SCL - Sex" > (standard code list) so would urn:eurostat:scl:sex be appropriate? > > Anyone done anything like this in the real world? > > All advice gratefully received. > > Thank you > > Phil. > > > [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/people/index.html > Perhaps I'm looking at your problem the wrong way, but have you looked at the SDMX Concepts: http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/code#sex -Sarven
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