[Buildingdata] Re: building of organisation

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Ah, but this only handles sites and sites != individual buildings... maybe.

Actually the way they use "Site" it can be a single building, or even a 
floor of a building, which isn't really how we've treated it in our data.

I agree about not inventing wheels and all that, but before reusing the 
wheel one should kick the tires (to stretch a metaphor)

On 01/03/2012 09:49, Ian Stuart wrote:
> 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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