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The CEDS Ontology is draft project to express the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) in Web Ontology Language (OWL).
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Relax range of name (and many others) #29

Open philbarker opened 8 months ago

philbarker commented 8 months ago

OrganizationName has a range of xsd:token. We are trying to use CEDS ontology properties for the PESC Transcript standard, which has to work internationally. Many organizations represent their name in different languages, e.g. French and English in parts of Canada, and it is desirable to be able to use a langString so that the different language variations can be noted and applications can select the appropriate one. In order to accommodate this and any current use of the property where the language is not noted, we suggest the range be set to rdfs:Literal.

The similar considerations apply to many other properties that have xsd:token as their range, such as AddressCity, AddressCountyName, CalendarEventDayName, CourseTitle etc. etc.