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WG3 Metadata Specification
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Add entity 'Place' #50

Closed agbeltran closed 7 years ago

agbeltran commented 7 years ago

Following from issue https://github.com/biocaddie/WG3-MetadataSpecifications/issues/48, we need an entity to cover the location for a dataset, but also for activities and organization.

We looked at:

  1. DataCite schema (http://schema.datacite.org) and its use of GeoLocation ( see example here: http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.0/example/datacite-example-GeoLocation-v4.0.xml)

  2. schema.org and its specification of Place (https://schema.org/Place) used in CreativeWork/Dataset for spatialCoverage

  3. GeoJSON specification (http://geojson.org/, RFC7946 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946)

and as a result we are adding the Place entity with properties: name, description, postalAddress, geometry (point, line, polygon) and coordinates ( list of pairs for lat/lon)

This entity will be the range for Dataset.spatialCoverage, but also all the activities location and Organization.location (instead of postalAddress)

agbeltran commented 7 years ago

closing via a70d22dba24989081e3ad5648cafd8ccc870dd95