The conceptual model for place aims at depicting specifications related to places. Plucky’s description of places is inspired by GeoName ontology (GN) and Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary. These ontologies and vocabularies allowed for detailed description of places, from country location to longitude and latitude, even to population size. Additionally, the GeoNames ontology allows for the inclusion of a link to a location map as well as the place’s wikipedia article. Given our project's interest in circumnavigation and thus places, these features were extremely valuable.
| Question | Subject | Predicate | Predicate is based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| What type of entity? | plucky:entity | plucky:is_entity_type | RDF:type |
| What is the name of the place? | plucky:entity | plucky:place_name | GN:name |
| What is an alternative name of the place? | plucky:entity | plucky:alt_name | GN:alternativeName |
| In which country is it located? | plucky:entity | plucky:in_country | GN:countryCode |
| What is the latitude? | plucky:entity | plucky: latitude | WGS84_POS:lat |
| What is the longitude? | plucky:entity | plucky: longitude | WGS84_POS:long |
| What is the map location? | plucky:entity | plucky:map_location | GN:locationMap |
| What is the wikipedia article location? | plucky:entity | plucky:wiki_article | GN:wikipediaArticle |
| What is the population of the place? | plucky:entity | plucky:population | GN:population |
| Which resources refer to the same place? | plucky:entity | plucky:sameAs | OWL:sameAs |
| Which resource has the place as primary topic? | plucky:entity | plucky:isPrimaryTopicOf | FOAF:isPrimaryTopicOf |