Property re-use - INSPIRE property dictionary

[jechterhoff]

Description

Issue #14 is concerned with rules for identifying properties of INSPIRE classes that have identical semantics. The goal is to re-use property definitions in INSPIRE RDF vocabularies where appropriate and to avoid duplicate definitions.

To support this, we may want to create a common INSPIRE property dictionary, which unambiguously specifies all properties used within the INSPIRE data models. It would provide a unique place to define properties, together with any additional information like mapping to properties from external vocabularies.

Aspects to consider for such a dictionary:

• How it would handle definitions from external vocabularies (e.g. if an INSPIRE property would be mapped to a property from an external vocabulary)
• When it could actually be introduced
• If there should only be an implicit link between properties of the INSPIRE model and dictionary entries or if the model should contain explicit link information