linked-places-format

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### Existing situation Currently, geometry in Linked Places format (LPF) has a "certainty" attribute, which allows one of three values, "certain", "less-certain", and "uncertain" (see B below). This convention is...

kgeographer

JSON Schema Context: Wikidata namespace prefix

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Wikidata being somewhat ubiquitous these days, wouldn't it be desirable to include a namespace prefix for it in the Linked Places context document, like this? `"wd": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/"` This is the...

docuracy

As an ontologist, I need an RDFS expression of linked-places so I can incorporate linked-places statements in my data model

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I'm working on a Pelagios-related project with data about historical places and events, and we are experimenting with CIDOC CRM to model the domain. Is there an "official" owl or...

cwulfman

Proposal for geometry.precision

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There is almost always _some_ approximation in the expression of Point coordinates, and it would be useful to be able to indicate the degree of approximation. For example, archaeological find...

docuracy

Proposal for geometry.uuid property

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PROPOSAL: An optional `uuid` property that can be used in Geometry Collections to associate particular geometries with one or more of their parent feature's types. This might be used, for...

docuracy

Non-place feature types

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The LP standard limits `types` to **places**, but the format has been found usefully to serve datasets in which the `features` are actually geolocated objects, for example archaeological finds. Visualisation...

docuracy

Proposal for simplified 'when' properties

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[Specification](https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-places-format#when-required) requires one of in|earliest|latest, but the given examples omit these properties.

docuracy

In comments below, please add links to or snippets of data that should be considered for further LPF development and/or interaction with [Linked Traces format](https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-traces-format) or similar.

kgeographer

Agreement on what LPF is

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Before we get into the weeds of discussing various proposals for new properties of LPF, I think there is a need for consensus on the high-level vision for the format....

rybesh

Proposal for relations.sourceLabels

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PROPOSAL: Add optional `sourceLabels` to the `relations` properties (as already specified for feature `types`). Outlined in [LP.json](https://github.com/docuracy/Locolligo/blob/main/schemas/LP.json).

docuracy