Political recognition of countries is a concern as well. Some
countries are not recognized by our State Dept that are in the standard (01)
K Goodier (02)
On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: (03)
> At last year's SemTech there was a presentation from the UN FAO folks
> who have a country ontology:
>
> http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo.asp
>
> These are the first people that a country writes to when it changes
> its
> name, I'm told. So in terms of provenance, this is the most
> authoritative. It's not ideal since it does not deal with intra-
> country
> concepts. Also it's a bit "design-y" for my tastes. When I asked about
> this they said they had not envisaged other types of user wanting make
> reference to this material.
>
> If one wants to define a set of reference ontologies to use which
> are as
> standard as possible then I'd suggest that this should be used for
> reasons of provenance. I'm in the process of trying to integrate the
> EDM
> Council Semantics Repository upper ontology terms into this, for that
> reason, and replacing the "holding" terms we currently use, which you
> are welcome to look at on www.hypercube.co.uk/edmcouncil under "Global
> Terms/Geographical".
>
> The intra-country terms are more problematic, and I'm also looking for
> what is the "most definitive" ontology for such terms, i.e. with
> provenance from a standards or governing body. The recognised
> authority
> on countries and country components is ISO 3166 at
> http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm but unfortunately that simply
> itemises the various intra-country components without attempting to
> create common concepts (e.g. a federal province is a common concept,
> whether a given federation calls it a State, a Province, a Canton or
> whatever, subject to different legal nuances of course).
>
> Mike
>
> Erick Antezana wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for an ontology that "captures" geographical concepts
>> such as continent, country, province/state, city, and so forth, their
>> "instances" (e.g. Europe, Belgium, East Flanders, Ghent) as well as
>> the relationships among them (Ghent is_located in Belgium).
>>
>> I have found a couple of works (e.g.
>> http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v2.0_Lite.rdf). Is there
>> any
>> one you could advise to look into?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Erick
>>
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