RE: real-world usage of non-XSD data types?

> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#matchingRDFLiterals includes the
> following sample data:
> 
>     @prefix dt: <http://example.org/datatype#> .
>     @prefix ns: <http://example.org/ns#> .
>     @prefix : <http://example.org/ns#> .
>     @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
> 
>     :x   ns:p     "cat"@en .
>     :y   ns:p     "42"^^xsd:integer .
>     :z   ns:p     "abc"^^dt:specialDatatype .
> 
> Can anyone point me to real-world usage of non-xsd data types like the
> "abc" example here?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 

A couple of examples from OS linked data for you. 

@prefix ns0:
<http://statistics.data.gov.uk/def/administrative-geography/> . 

<http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/id/7000000000037256> skos:notation
"00MS"^^ns0:StandardCode ;

@prefix postcode: <http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/postcode/>
.

<http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/id/postcodeunit/SO164GU> skos:notation
"SO16 4GU"^^postcode:Postcode ;

Datatypes created for (UK) postcodes and for the SNAC codes that were
used to identify administrative and voting geographic regions.

Both URIs in the subjects are de-referencable if you want to look them
up.

John 

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