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Key: COMMONS13-21
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Status: open
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Source: cebe IT & KM ( Mr. Claude Baudoin)
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Summary:
This ontology defines "County" and "FederalState", which bias the ontology toward the administrative geography of the United States. Cantons and provinces are defined as synonyms or FederalState, but other countries have subdivisions that go by other names. The term "GeopoliticalEntity" could apply in that case (e.g., to a French "région" or "département", except that GeopoliticalEntity is defined as a subclass of GeographicRegion, which is "an area of land that has common features" which seems to be mostly about physical characteristic (a mountain, a plain, etc.) not a geopolitical entity.
It would seem that more generic terms than "County" or "FederalState" should be used to better address the geopolitical subdivision of countries other than the U.S. -
Reported: Commons 1.2b1 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:50 GMT
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Updated: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:26 GMT
COMMONS13 — US-centric geopolitical terminology
- Key: COMMONS13-21
- OMG Task Force: Commons Ontology Library (Commons) 1.3 RTF