- From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:29:57 +0100
- To: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
On 03/04/12 16:38, Sarven Capadisli wrote: > 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 > I was going to suggest that :) Actually looking at that I see that I've failed to datatype the skos:notation entries in those code lists. There should probably be a http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/code#sexDT datatype to go with the notation on those skos:Concepts. Phil, if that's important to you then raise it as an issue on the tracker [1] and, if no one objects, then I can get it fixed. Dave [1] http://code.google.com/p/publishing-statistical-data/issues/list
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