[Tdwg-guid] Geonames ontology

[Roderic Page]

Stumbled across an nice ontology for geographical places (see  
http://semant.blogspot.com/2006/10/geonames-ontology-in-owl-gswb.html).  
Isn't this the sort of thing we should be looking at, say for Darwin  
Core. It always struck me as a weakness that geographic places in  
Darwin Core were simply literal strings, rather than links to URIs.

Regards

Rod
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