I wrote about this earlier but I never heard anything back.<div><br></div><div>I have made something that uses the geo vocabulary but also allows pointRadiusSpatial fit measure that I call radius.</div><div><br></div><div>
The advantage is that this adds a standard way to deal use something like an extent or pointRadiusSpatial while still benefiting from the widely used geo vocabulary.</div><div><br></div><div>It also allows these "Areas" to be referenced in a commonly understood urn way that using a ietf standard.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example: "<span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10"</span></div><div>
<br></div><div>There are still some things I need to fix and check with this vocabulary but I am wondering if there is any interest in incorporating this into the DarwinCore.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If not I will probably change the name of the ontology.</div><div><br></div><div>There are also things in the example below that are not part of my proposal.</div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div>
<br>I have what I call "Areas" that look like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dwc_area:Area rdf:about="geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10"></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:title>44.86528100, -87.23147800 Radius 10 meters</dcterms:title></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/void#this" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/void#this</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:identifier>geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10</dcterms:identifier></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:created>2010-10-28T00:00:00-0500</dcterms:created></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:modified>2010-11-09T16:33:34-0600</dcterms:modified></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <geo:lat>44.86528100</geo:lat></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <geo:long>-87.23147800</geo:long></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dwc_area:radius>10</dwc_area:radius></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:elevation>186.54</txn:elevation></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:continent>North America</txn:continent></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:countryCode>US</txn:countryCode></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:country>United States</txn:country></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:stateProvince>Wisconsin</txn:stateProvince></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:county>Door</txn:county></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:localityText>Town of Sevastopol</txn:localityText></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:locationName>Shivering Sands Natural Area Woods</txn:locationName></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:areaHasOccurrence rdf:resource="<a href="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurrence" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurrence</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:areaHasObservedSpeciesConcept rdf:resource="<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:areaHasIndividual rdf:resource="<a href="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Individual" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Individual</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:areaInStateProvince rdf:resource="<a href="http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:areaInCounty rdf:resource="<a href="http://sws.geonames.org/5250768/" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://sws.geonames.org/5250768/</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <wdrs:describedBy rdf:resource="<a href="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.rdf" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.rdf</a>"/></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </dwc_area:Area></font></div></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I recently added the following predicates, but have not altered my RDF examples.</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div></span></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div>#featureContainsArea</div>
<div>#areaWithInFeature</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/dwc_area.owl" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 204); ">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/dwc_area.owl</a><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>OWL Doc <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/dwc_area_doc/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 204); ">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/dwc_area_doc/index.html</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>The predicates are a bit awkward, but I wanted to be clear that this was to link an "Area" like <span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10" </span>to a Geonames "Feature".</div>
<div><br></div><div>I thought a different set of predicates could be created to deal with some other class of "SpatialThing" if needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully,</div><div><br></div><div>- Pete</div>
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