I got some feedback from Maurice Vanderfeesten at SURF who coordinates
the DRIVER guidelines - the DC:Coverage recommendation was apparently
inherited from previous DAREnet work and no alternative suggestions were
received during the consultation period. However the guidelines are
always open to suggestions for improvement (thanks for this one), and
the plan is to make the guidelines available in a wiki to enable easier
management of updates and version control - there will be a 'comment'
facility for each page. SURF is currently running a test version - I've
forwarded your email in the meantime.
Regards, Rosemary
James S Reid wrote:
> Could somebody on the list shed some light on why the DRIVER
> guidelines state that for DC:Coverage the " Recommended best practice
> is to select the value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the
> Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names or TGN) and that, where
> appropriate, *named places or time periods be used in preference to
> numeric identifiers as*, for example, sets of co- ordinates or date
> ranges. If necessary, repeat this element to encode multiple locations
> or periods."
>
> This is at odds with what we have been encouraging for years
> (favouring explicit georeferencing via no-ambiguous coordinate
> referencing) as part of having the JISC IE georeferenced and indeed is
> guaranteed to provide ambiguity e.g. the placename 'london' is not
> non-ambigous were as N 51° 30' 30''W 0° 7' 31'' is (this is the UK
> London as opposed to the Canadian one at N 42° 59' 0''W 81° 13' 58' ).
>
> See also our GAP work -
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Geospatial_Application_Profile
>
> ??
>
>
>
> James S Reid
> EDINA (Geoservices)
> Uniiversity of Edinburgh
>
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