Per Jasper basically. In Canada, for example, "college" only refers to
technical institutions or others which do not grant degrees.

Adrian Raddatz

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Jasper Deng <[email protected]>
wrote:

> College is not in general synonymous with university. This would be
> something that would have to be resolved on a case-by-case basis, although
> an alias should also suffice ("Harvard College" in this case).
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There are times when a few keywords are often interchanged with each
>> other in different languages and dialects.
>>
>> It seems advantageous to somehow tell Wikidata Search that when someone
>> types Harvard College to interchange and also look for Harvard University,
>> and vice versa.
>>
>> An interchange mapping table might suffice just for this use case, or
>> something else, dunno...
>>
>> How far in the future is this feature ?  Roadblocks ?
>>
>> Thad
>> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
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