International-Data-Spaces-Association / InformationModel

The Information Model of the International Data Spaces implements the IDS reference architecture as an extensible, machine readable and technology independent data model.
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Consider code lists for jurisdictions #455

Open clange opened 3 years ago

clange commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/International-Data-Spaces-Association/InformationModel/blob/c71277a7d428ce545a8278d0bb377ba75bbfd422/model/participant/Participant.ttl#L116-L121

Rather than standardized strings such as ISO 3166-2 (e.g., DE-NW), it would – in RDF – make more sense to use codes. However, I am not aware of any standard dataset that has URIs for each such identifier, and it would be a lot of work to create our own. Wikidata has a property corresponding to ISO 3166-2 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P300), but this only solves half of the problem, because there is no straightforward way of saying "the range of ids:jurisdiction is anything that has a value on its wdt:P300 property".

HaydarAk commented 2 years ago

After a brief discussion with @changqin26 @JohannesLipp @clange , we came to the conclusion to