[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Christopher Gutteridge]

anyhow guys... still no clarity. Should we define

rooms:ExBuilding as the type of things which were but are no longer a 
room:Building? I think we need to mark it in the data in some way, 
otherwise we'll just be left with confusing dangling URIs to 404'ing 
buildings.

We could say that if something is listed as both type Building and 
ExBuilding then it's an ex-building. I know this is a bit hokey, but 
we're the first organisation publishing linked building data who've 
demolished a building so I really want to do something practical but useful.

On 12/12/11 15:23, Ian Stuart wrote:
> On 12/12/11 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
>> number 86?
> What happens when Building 42 is renamed Building 42a?
> Is there a concept of timeliness (when they start&  when the end) to names?
>
>> Nick
>>
>> On 12 Dec 2011, at 14:53, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>>
>>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a class for ex-buildings, so
>>> that if something refers to it, it's explicitly a demolished building
>>> (well, carried away on trucks in our case) rather than just a 404.
>
>

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