At 2012-07-29 00:30, Paul Norman wrote:
While doing this cleanup I would suggest removing attribution, description, kern:Comb_Zn, kern:Zn_Cd1 and setting source=Kern_County_GIS
There might be some objects that have been edited, so you'll want to add ";Kern_County_GIS" if there is an existing source tag. Are they all "http://www.co.kern.ca.us/gis/Files/CountyZoning.zip";, or were there multiple types of data involved? Maybe append the year and month of the file that was imported to the value, too (e.g. "Kern_County_GIS_Zones_200810").
I'm all for shortening/abbreviating values that are not meant to be rendered (well, I'd be ok with some abbreviation in names, too, but that's a different issue :) ). In particular, it seems a needless waste of space to have these long descriptive source values repeated on every object of an import. It makes more sense to me to document a source on the wiki page for the source tag and use a reasonable abbreviation for it.
For example, in one particular excerpt (of source values with commas), the source value "EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org),International Solar Information Solutions (http://www.isi-solutions.org),OpenTopography (http://www.opentopography.org)" appears on at least 4000 objects instead of something more reasonable like "EarthScope;ISIS;OpenTopo". Defining source values in the wiki would also give one a chance to document details, like the date of the data, research on copyright status, etc.
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