Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi, Thanks for the info, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. We've established authority control for ancient places, but I'm looking for an ontology I can use to describe the child:parent relationship between city and region or region and larger region (in any way that isn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Michael Hopwood
I think this highlights the point that, at some point, you have to model the data. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: 08 April 2012 15:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Michael Hopwood
Sorry, a more useful response would have been - have you tried asking the CIDOC-CRM people? www.cidoc-crm.org/ - it seems to me unbelievable that they haven't hit up against this problem in their extensive work on museum / heritage / history ontologies. The LIDO schema I'm working with has

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
The data is modeled, but I want to use an ontology for geographic concepts that already exists, if possible. If anything, my issue highlights the point that linked data can be *too* flexible. On Apr 8, 2012 3:54 PM, Michael Hopwood mich...@editeur.org wrote: I think this highlights the point

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
CIDOC-CRM may be the answer here. I will look over the documentation in greater detail tomorrow. Thanks, Ethan On Apr 8, 2012 7:56 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: The data is modeled, but I want to use an ontology for geographic concepts that already exists, if possible. If