1. Not all acronyms relevant for CPOV are "formally recognised by the European Commission". Some are only recognised by a state or in a region. The text describing "identifier" should cover these as well.
2. Political parties often have acronyms and these acronyms can have some legal status (in Germany that is the case). That should be mentioned briefly. Some background: https://github.com/popolo-project/popolo-spec/issues/113
CPOV draft 2 states this:
5.1.3. Property: identifier [0..n]
Many organisations are referred to by an acronym or some other identifier. For
example, the ECB for the European Central Bank, OLAF for the European Anti-Fraud
Office, and so on. These are formally recognised by the European Commission
which provides a list of such acronyms.
In the RDF release of the CPOV, this property is bound to org:identifier.
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Thanks Andreas,
Yes, I didn't meant to suggest that the EC was the only organisation with a list of recognised acronyms. I'll tidy up the wording accordingly.
The wording now says:
Many organisations are referred to by an acronym or some other identifier. For example, among the EU institutions, the ECB is the identifier for the European Central Bank, OLAF for the European Anti-Fraud Office, and so on. These are formally recognised by the European Commission which provides a list of such acronyms[1]. Analogous lists should be used in other contexts.
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/cybernews/abbreviations.htm
Hope that's OK?
That is ok, thanks.
For information, http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/resource/authority/corporate-body/skos/corporatebodies-skos.rdf also provide a lot of acronyms with all institutions, agencies but also political groups in the European Parliament.