gn:GeographicalName a owl:Class ;
rdfs:subClassOf skos:Concept ;
skos:definition "Proper noun applied to a real world entity."@en .
I believe this subclassing is done to have compatibility with locn:geographicName (see the last sentence in the comment).
locn:geographicName a rdf:Property ;
rdfs:label "geographic name"@en ;
rdfs:comment """
A geographic name is a proper noun applied to a spatial object. Taking the example used in the relevant INSPIRE data specification (page 18), the following are all valid geographic names for the Greek capital:
...
For INSPIRE-conformant data, provide the metadata for the geographic name using a skos:Concept as a datatype."""@en ;
However, RDF defines the term "datatype" as the datatype of a literal, of which xsd:string is an example. As such, I always assumed geographicname would be used as follows:
I am not sure if this is what core location originally intended, but it would be a more unified way since there is no mixup of GeographicalName as literal and as non-literal.
GeographicalName is currently defined as:
I believe this subclassing is done to have compatibility with
locn:geographicName
(see the last sentence in the comment).However, RDF defines the term "datatype" as the datatype of a literal, of which
xsd:string
is an example. As such, I always assumed geographicname would be used as follows:I am not sure if this is what core location originally intended, but it would be a more unified way since there is no mixup of GeographicalName as literal and as non-literal.