- From: Thomas Bandholtz <thomas@sema.de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:30:58 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
We are building a geografical thesaurus (GTU) for the German Environmental Information Network. (http://www.gein.de). It's not yet to be seen on these pages, but it already works in the test-site http://www.gein.de/pilot02/assistent.html. GTU contains more than 60.000 geografic names in Germany with their positions relative to each other, so you can find something like "geografic synonyms", which means places, that cover each other (partially). We didn't do it with RDF, but with "plain" XML. We are thinking about modelling it as a "Topic Map" (http://www.topic-maps.com/). I think there is no benefit in pressing all the information into the tripples of RDF. GTU is not a "Resource Description", it is a vocabulary that we use in the "area" tag of our RDF description of information resources. Thomas Bandholtz - Sema Group GmbH - Project Manager Environmental Information Systems Kaltenbornweg 3 D50679 Cologne GERMANY xx49 221 8299 264 thomas@sema.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: WorldNet <csgallagher@worldnet.att.net> An: <rmm@enws293.eas.asu.edu>; <www-rdf-interest@w3.org> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2000 22:45 Betreff: Places & Naming Conventions > Is there an RDF markup available for one to use with regard to places and > their names? > > --Clinton Gallagher >
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