edm:Place

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Last updated: Feb 12, 2024
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A spatial location identified by the provider and named according to some vocabulary or local convention.

  • The recommended properties are marked in dark red.

  • The optional properties are left in black.

Please provide the properties in the record in the same order given in this document, the metadata validation performed by Europeana requires this order.

edm:Place

Property

Description

Value
type

Cardinality

wgs84_pos:lat

The latitude of a spatial thing (decimal degrees). This is a recommended property for this class.
<wgs84_pos:lat>51.5075</wgs84_pos:lat>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C

Floating point

0...1

wgs84_pos:long

The longitude of a spatial thing (decimal degrees). This is a recommended property for this class.
<wgs84_pos:long>-­‐0.1231</wgs84_pos:long>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements, more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C

Floating point

0...1

wgs84_pos:alt

The altitude of a spatial thing (decimal metres above the reference)
<wgs84_pos:alt>21</wgs84_pos:alt>

Floating point

0...1

skos:prefLabel

The preferred form of the name of the place. Although the maximum number of occurrences is set at 1, it can be interpreted as 1 per language tag.

At least one skos:prefLabel SHOULD be provided. Several prefLabels with languages tags are strongly recommended for language variants and translations.
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">London</skos:prefLabel>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C

literal

0....1

skos:altLabel

Alternative forms of the name of the place.
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Greater London</skos:altLabel>

literal

0....n

skos:note

Information relating to the place.
<skos:note xml:lang="en">Pop. 21m</skos:note>

literal

0....n

dcterms:hasPart

Reference to a place that is part of the place being described.
<dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource=“http://sws.geonames.org/2643741/”/> (City of London)

ref

0....n

dcterms:isPartOf

Reference to a place that the described place is part of.
<dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=“http://sws.geonames.org/2635167/”/> (United Kingdom)

ref

0....n

edm:isNextInSequence

Can be used to represent a sequence of Place entities over time e.g. the historical layers of the city of Troy. Use this for objects that are part of a hierarchy or sequence to ensure correct display in the portal.

ref

0....n

owl:sameAs

URI of a Place
<owl:sameAs rdf:resource=“http://sws.geonames.org/2635167/”/>(London)

ref

0....n