[Buildingdata] Re: building of organisation

[Alex Bilbie]

We're using org:site in our FOAF dumps

Alex

On 1 Mar 2012, at 10:10, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> 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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> 
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