- From: Matt Wallis <matt@solidarityeconomics.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:28:43 +0000
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <0352bd8b-5bb8-f706-7133-f5d8c4cb30f2@solidarityeconomics.org>
As a relative newcomer to LOD (first post here), I have a very basic
question: How to link from an object specified in RDF to a Companies
House URI for data about a particular registered company?
Suppose, for example that I have a class, my:Thing, and that some of
these Things are also registered companies. I want to provide a link
from an instance of my:Thing to the data held by Companies House.
Let's suppose that the Companies House URI is
http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948.
Is there an existing predicate that I can simply add to my resource
description? Like this:
my:object a my:Thing .
my:object predicate <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948> .
Or do I need to modify the definition of the my:Thing class in order to
provide this link? If so how?
An extra requirement is that I don't want the mechanism to be
UK-specific. I see from the Companies House data model
(http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/docs/data-model-reference.html)
that it uses the Registered Organization Vocabulary
(https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/) which is not UK-specific. In
particular:
http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/def/terms/RegisteredCompany
rdfs:subClassOf http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg#RegisteredOrganization
So I'm hoping that there's a straightforward way for the linkage
mechanism to work without it being UK-specific.
In case it is relevant, my:Thing is actually
http://purl.org/solidarityeconomics/experimental/essglobal/vocab/SSEInitiative
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Matt Wallis
Institute for Solidarity Economics
http://www.solidarityeconomics.org
Received on Friday, 13 January 2017 10:22:35 UTC