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Property:addressCountry #209

Open mtrekels opened 4 years ago

mtrekels commented 4 years ago
Label Address Country
Definition The country. For example, USA. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
Usage
Existing property schema:addressCountry
Existing class schema:PostalAddress
Existing property identifier https://schema.org/addressCountry
Format Text
Required Yes
Repeatable No
Constraints Controlled vocabulary
Examples Denmark, Colombia, España
Notes
falkogloeckler commented 4 years ago

Format should be an ISO Country code instead of free text

rondlg commented 4 years ago

We should separate out ISO country fro Country to allow for older country names and/or ambiguous borders.

dbloom commented 4 years ago

Agreed @rondlg

Similarly, only one place name should be permitted in the field - yes, folks put more than one country name into the country field more often than you might think. This should be true for all geography fields.

pzermoglio commented 4 years ago

We should separate out ISO country fro Country to allow for older country names and/or ambiguous borders.

If you allow older names you'll probably have quite a challenge putting together a controlled vocabulary for it... (not that it can't be done, but it will be a super dynamic vocabulary I suspect, as new "ways of calling places" surface from the data)... If you go for ambiguous borders things could get worse... So in that case I would re-think either the definition of the term or the expectation for the values to conform to a controlled vocabulary...

pzermoglio commented 4 years ago

As for a potential vocabulary, there is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names that could be considered.

debpaul commented 4 years ago

Question: is this Country the field where the collection resides, yes? as compared to describing which countries (Plural) a particular collection description is about?

We (if we don't have it) need a separate field for sharing 0 to many countries, for sharing where a given set of objects were gathered -- to put in a given Collection Description.

qgroom commented 4 years ago

@debpaul This is part of Class:OrganisationalUnitAddress So it refers to one country and that is a current country

rondlg commented 2 years ago

If this is split into 2 fields: one for a text string country and the other for the ISO country we need a vocab for the 2nd of these but not the first.

ben-norton commented 2 years ago

Why both?

ben-norton commented 2 years ago

I have an API endpoint with the ISO country codes. I cant recall the URL off-hand. Give me 12 hours to post it.