GeoDCAT-AP [PR]: controlled vocabulary for marine regions

References

This issue has been reported by James Passmore.

http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/mailman/archives/dcat_application_profile-geo/2015-August/000174.html

and supported by Jon Blower

http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/mailman/archives/dcat_application_profile-geo/2015-August/000184.html

Explanation

Draft 6 of the GeoDCAT-AP specification proposes as a controlled vocabulary for geographic identifier (dct:spatial) the continents, countries and places Named Authority Lists [18] [19] operated by the Metadata Registry of the Publications Office of the EU.
http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/continent/
http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/place/
http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/country/
and the geonames URI sets [20]. http://www.geonames.org/

James Passmore proposes to add here something for Sea Regions, for example those collated by http://www.marineregions.org/

For example BGS has a WMS that provides access to a data set that describes sea bed sediments for the United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone:

http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=5696

Related issues

• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for location information
• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for discipline
• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for spatial resolution
• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for spatial representation type
• GeoDCAT-AP: Keyword controlled vocabulary
• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for frequencies
• GeoDCAT-AP: Controlled vocabulary for dcat:theme

Component

Category