- From: Jim Goodell <jimgoodell@qi-partners.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:39:20 -0400
- To: "McBennett, Pat" <McBennettP@DNB.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <D139B7D7.6CF01%jimgoodell@qi-partners.com>
Pat, CEDS has a URI reference for the ISO 2-digit codes, e.g. https://ceds.ed.gov/element/000050#IE for Ireland. It does not (yet) have an element defining the ISO 3-digit country codes, and the URL when resolved does not (yet) return machine readable content such as RDF. I think the the code could be referenced Œauthoritativelyı using the ISO site like this: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:IE I guess it depends whether you just need an identifier or if you need the definition returned in a machine readable format when the URI is resolve. jim From: "McBennett, Pat" <McBennettP@DNB.com> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 1:04 PM To: "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org> Subject: Re: Proposal for Schema.org extension mechanism Resent-From: <public-vocabs@w3.org> Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:05:33 +0000 I totally agree with Martin Heppıs comments. Iıve recently begun exactly the process Martin describes (i.e. defining ŒWeb ontologies / shared scheması), and already Iım finding all 3 of his points are spot-on. But Iıd like to ask Martin what form of mechanism does he think could work for ŒŠtapping into the potential of the many, many interesting schemas and standards out there [Š] without the need to channel those through the social and technical process of getting into schema.org coreı? As a very simple example Iım currently trying to find an existing RDF schema or standard for International Country Codes, but one which is Œauthoritativeı. ISO was an obvious place to start, so I asked them if they could provide these codes as RDF (I can that they currently provide them as CSV, XML or XLS [1]). Their response: Dear Pat, We do not product any RDF formats, I am sorry. Regards So that means although there are ISO country codes in the public domain (e.g. IRL, or FRA, or USA), and of course I can use those codes freely, there are no Œofficialı URIıs out there for those codes (that Iım aware of) i.e. there is no http://www.iso.org/country/alpha-3/IRLı for Ireland. So unless I can presuade the ISO to mint these URIıs for Œtheirı country codes (which I would see as ideal, since they are a recognised authority, but it seems unlikely in the sort term), what mechanism do I have to use standardised, authoritative (i.e. as opposed to crowdsourced Wikipedia (or DBPedia) URI identifiers for countries in my internal datasets? I could mint my own URIıs for these country codes under my companies domain name, but thatıs hardly appropriate as weıve no interest in being an authority on country code identifiers (and weıd have the maintanance overhead of trying to keep them in-sync with the Œrealı ISO codes)Š Which is why I would have thought an extension to Schema.org might offer a good opportunity for this (since Schema.org has already become the de facto authority for lots of things!). But am I just being naïve somehowŠ? Regards, Pat. [1] - http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm Pat McBennett Architect The Chase Building, 5th Floor Carmanhall Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland Direct +353 1 Mobile +353 8 http://www.dnb.co.uk/ <http://www.dnb.co.uk/> <http://www.facebook.com/DunBradstreet> <http://twitter.com/dnbus> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet> <http://www.youtube.com/user/DunandBrad> The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments (the "Message") is intended for one or more specific individuals or entities, and may be confidential, proprietary, privileged or otherwise protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient (or you are not authorised to receive for the recipient), please notify the sender immediately, delete this Message and do not disclose, distribute, or copy it to any third party or otherwise use this Message. Electronic messages are not secure or error free and can contain viruses or may be delayed and the sender is not liable for any of these occurrences. The sender reserves the right to monitor, record, transfer cross border and retain electronic messages. "D&B" is a trading style of D&B Business Information Solutions is registered in Ireland. www.dnb.co.uk <www.dnb.co.uk>
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