[Buildingdata] Re: building of organisation

[Ian Stuart]

On 01/03/12 09:43, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> do we have a standard way to relate a formal organization and a
> building? I'd like to say all of any site or building that it is in the
> "University of Southampton Estate" (which includes buildings we own,
> rent, or occupy)
>
> This feels like something we've missed and it would be very useful, for
> example at the moment, we don't have a 'safe' way to get all our
> buildings, except by the context of them being in our data (which could
> easily contain other buildings)... and it's already starting to go wrong
> as our buildings database contains some buildings which are no longer
> OUR building, but used to be so are kept in. They are still a building,
> just not /our/ building.

Don't reinvent the wheel: 
http://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html

:D

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