[tdwg-content] dwc: city to county

[John R. WIECZOREK]

Yes, I think the "accordingTo" term would be useful and nicely
parallel to what we do with Taxon. It will allow gazetteers to be
shared with Darwin Core using records having dcterms:type="Location".
I would call it locationAccordingTo, and it would be distinct from
georeferencedBy.

I didn't think about using higherGeographyID in the way you are
suggesting, but you're correct, it fits perfectly. Given this
epiphany, I don't think the city term is needed to cover Gregor's use
case. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I would not use id's in the other geographic terms (Country,
stateProvince, county, etc.).


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:18 AM, "Markus Döring
(GBIF)"<mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:
> One more thing came to my mind just now.
> For taxa we have a taxonAccordingTo, shouldnt there also be a
> geographyAccordingTo term to indicate the source of the place names?
> That could be pretty useful I would think.
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 16:16, Markus Döring (GBIF) wrote:
>
>> I just realized that there is dwc:higherGeographyID already that fits
>> perfectly to hold the city gazeteer ID:
>> http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#higherGeographyID
>>
>> so for a location within the city of san francisco we can use:
>> dwc:higherGeographyID =tgn: 7014456
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 15:41, Markus Döring (GBIF) wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Darwin Core is able to transmit Gazetteer IDs for the kind of
>>>>>> objects
>>>>>> you are talking about (generally called "features" or "named
>>>>>> places")
>>>>>> that are present in gazetteers. Not only that, gazetteers can have
>>>>>> detailed information (georeferences with uncertainties) about
>>>>>> places
>>>>>> with complex descriptions as well as simple named places. BioGeoBIF
>>>>>> does this, and a Locality service I have long wanted to build has
>>>>>> exactly this intention. What Darwin Core can't do is give a
>>>>>> gazetteer
>>>>>> id for some part of the Location, only for the whole. In other
>>>>>> words,
>>>>>> it can't do what you want it to do. I don't think Darwin Core
>>>>>> should.
>>>>>> I think the far better solution is to use universal terms - the
>>>>>> spatial data - for the use case you are proposing.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a big difference between city being S. Francisco and the
>>>>> location being detail inside of it, and city being S. Francisco and
>>>>> the location being 200 km S of it.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I agree. They are very different. Assuming there was a "city"
>>>> term in DwC, I would not want someone to put San Francisco as the
>>>> city
>>>> if the Location was outside of the city. In other words, no
>>>> geographic
>>>> term is to be used to represent a "nearest named place", instead,
>>>> they
>>>> are to be used only to designate containment of the specific place.
>>>>
>>>>> So for the use case where the the detailed location is inside the
>>>>> boundaries defined by a gazeetter ID, I am still assuming that DWC
>>>>> can
>>>>> transmit the data ONLY if no more detailed data are given. Or this a
>>>>> misunderstanding?
>>>>
>>>> You understand correctly. Darwin Core can transmit all of the detail
>>>> about the place, no matter how specific, but it cannot transmit any
>>>> gazetteer id that does not correspond to the whole Location in all
>>>> its
>>>> detail.
>>>
>>> Would it hurt to put the gazateer ID into a higher geographic term?
>>>
>>> for the county of san francisco:
>>> dwc:county=TGN:1002859
>>>
>>> for the city one could use the locality is there is no finer
>>> description of the exact place:
>>> dwc:locality=tgn: 7014456
>>>
>>>
>>> Remarkably the getty thesaurus also uses similar terms for the
>>> geographic hierarchy:
>>>
>>> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=san+francisco&place=city&nation=&prev_page=1&english=Y&subjectid=7014456
>>> North and Central America (continent)
>>> United States (nation)
>>> California (state)
>>> San Francisco (county)
>>> San Francisco (inhabited place)
>>>
>>> Well, for a German town this is slightly different:
>>> Europe (continent)
>>> Germany (nation)
>>> Lower Saxony (state)
>>> Hannover (national district)
>>> Holzminden (inhabited place)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If all it takes is to add a dwc:city or dwc:inhabitedPlace term, I
>>> think I would second that.
>>>
>>> Alternatively the most relevant bit apart from the locationID and
>>> exact locality is the next higher region that contains the exact
>>> location - no matter what rank.
>>> Something like a dwc:namedArea
>>>
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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