Re: How to link to Companies House (UK) data?

On 1/17/17 9:36 AM, Matt Wallis wrote:
> On 13/01/2017 12:45, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 1/12/17 8:28 AM, Matt Wallis wrote:
>>>
>>> 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> .
>>>
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> There are many RDF statement predicates that could be used to
>> associate my:object with
>> <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948>. What's most
>> important is the nature of the predicate used, with regards to what
>> you are trying to communicate. Thus, the entity type identified by
>> my:object is quite important i.e., does it identify a Person,
>> Organization, or something else? 
>>
>> In a very loose sense, you could state:
>>
>> {
>>
>>   @prefix my: <#> .
>>
>>   @prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
>>
>>   @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
>>
>>   my:object schema:isRelatedTo
>> <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948> .
>>
>>   ## and/or
>>
>>  
>>   my:object skos:related
>> <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948> .
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Assuming my:object is a company that is officially identified by:
>> <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948, you could state:
>>
>> {
>>
>>   @prefix my: <#> .
>>
>>   @prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
>>
>>   @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
>>
>>   my:object owl:sameAs
>> <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948> .
>>
>> }
>>
> Hi Kingsley,
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> I think that I am looking for something that is more specific that
> isRelatedTo - I want to say that one can expect to find information
> about the formal company registration.
> I have read various warnings about the overuse of owl:sameAs, and this
> makes me cautious about using it. For now, I would prefer to assert a
> more specific relationship.

That's fine, but you haven't really clarified the nature of the
association that you seek. All I've done is provide examples from either
side of a broad spectrum :)



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