[Buildingdata] Re: Levels (Dammit)

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Yeah, in the CSV source data I'm just taking as input string values for 
any of

Site, Building, Floor, Room
and if they all exist you end up with room is within floor & Building, 
floor is within building, building is within site. And the URIs are, 
from the base namespace defined in the config file for each thing

$site_ns$site_id
$building_ns$building_id
$floor_ns$building_id-$floor_id
$room_ns$building_id-$room_id

I am assuming that buildings have unque IDs even over multiple sites, 
but that floor & room ID are only unique to the building.


Ian Stuart wrote:
> On 23/08/11 13:39, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>   
>> That's local usage, certainly - I was suggesting a case at another
>> institution where the room number to level number mapping isn't as
>> obvious.
>>     
>
> Room number, really, is just a local code.
>
> Heck - you can't even assume that "1xxx" is ground floor (US version) or 
> first floor (UK version: the Edinburgh City Chambers (primary offices 
> for the local council) number from the lowest floor with an outside 
> window... which means that floor 1 looks out over Cockburn Street, and 
> the main entrance (off the Royal Mile, or High Street) is on level 5!
>
>   

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