This vocabulary represents in RDF the part of the INSPIRE Administrative Units Theme that was included in the data model developed under the Smart Open Data project. An aggregate view of the INSPIRE Themes used in the project is available at http://www.w3.org/2015/03/inspire.
This vocabulary is stable. Definitions may be updated to clarify semantics if appropriate but the basic definitions will not change. If you wish to add terms in the INSPIRE AU model not included here, please contact Phil Archer
This is not a W3C standard and has not been endorsed by the W3C Membership.
Classes: AdministrativeUnit
Properties: country | nationalCode | nationalLevel
| au | http://www.w3.org/2015/03/inspire/au# |
|---|---|
| geo | http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql# |
| skos | http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos# |
| xsd | http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# |
| Class | au:AdministrativeUnit |
|---|---|
| rdfs:label | Administrative unit |
| rdfs:comment | This class represents a Unit of administration where a Member State has and/or exercises jurisdictional rights, for local, regional and national governance. AdministrativeUnit is the key spatial object type for representing the units of division at all levels of the administrative hierarchy. Each single unit (i.e. instance of AdministrativeUnit spatial object type) belongs to exactly one level of the respective national hierarchy. |
| rdfs:subClassOf | geo:SpatialObject |
| Property | au:country |
|---|---|
| rdfs:label | country |
| rdfs:comment | This property specifies the two-character country code of the Administrative Unit according to the Interinstitutional style guide published by the Publications Office of the European Union. The values are provided by the European Publications Office at the Metadata Registry (MDR) http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/country/ |
| rdfs:domain | au:AdministrativeUnit |
| rdfs:range | skos:Concept |
| Property | au:nationalCode |
|---|---|
| rdfs:label | national code |
| rdfs:comment | This property specifies the thematic identifier corresponding to the national administrative codes defined in each country. |
| rdfs:domain | au:AdministrativeUnit |
| rdfs:range | xsd:string |
| rdfs:subPropertyOf | skos:notation |
| Property | au:nationalLevel |
|---|---|
| rdfs:label | national level |
| rdfs:comment | This property links the Administrative Unit to the level in the national administrative hierarchy, at which the Unit is established. The property takes values from the INSPIRE SKOS concept scheme for the Administrative Hierarchy Level. |
| rdfs:domain | au:AdministrativeUnit |
| rdfs:range | skos:Concept |