Re: Does 'Feature' = 'Real World Thing'?

@lars ... many thanks. It's good to be able to point to evidence of this
practice!

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 at 09:43 Svensson, Lars <L.Svensson@dnb.de> wrote:

> Jeremy, Andrea,
>
> Most interesting discussion, particularly for non-geographers like me who
> still try to grasp what a "feature" is...
>
> On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 6:55 PM, Andrea Perego wrote:
>
> > > @andrea ... I think that fictional things (like Dicken's London) count
> as
> > > 'real-world Things'. OK; that's counter intuitive :-) ... but I'm
> implying
> > > that we _talk_ about them in the real world; they are part of the
> "universe
> > > of discourse".
> >
> > +1 from me. But then we should make it clear that *real*-world things
> > do include fictional ones. Or we can opt for something else, e.g., the
> > already mentioned *spatial* thing / object.
>
> Yes, I agree that fictional things are a subclass of real-world things (or
> at least that we should treat them as if they were). This is also the way
> we model it in the DNB's authority data and the GND ontology. Hermione
> Granger [1] is a "Literary or Legendary Character" [2] which is a subclass
> of "Differentiated Person" [3] and thus a "Person". Atlantis [4] is a
> "Fictive Place" [5] which is a subclass of "Place or Geographic Name" (to
> get back to the geographic domain...).
>
> [1] http://d-nb.info/gnd/1029449120
> [2] http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#LiteraryOrLegendaryCharacter
> [3] http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#DifferentiatedPerson
> [4] http://d-nb.info/gnd/4003385-5
> [5] http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#FictivePlace
> [6] http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#PlaceOrGeographicName
>
> Best,
>
> Lars
>