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State |
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Damion's note: Placing or "multihoming" state (a governmental region) under various classes means that the entity can be interpreted within the respective class, and can inherit properties/axioms of that class State under "categorical" yeilds a uri enabling reference to the state as a unique entity. State under "area" references the polygon region bounding the state. State under "geopolitical region" references concepts of governance and law. State under "name" references its name, a string. Complications arise: a state can change names, boundaries, laws, etc. over time. On a data entry form we're primarily intersted in state as categorical item (= pulldown list). In cases of countries where we don't have lists of states or provinces, then we could accept "state name" - a string - in form input? One could create "state name" as an ontology term, etc. Organizing state concept as a compendium of "state name" ,"state area" , "state boundary" etc. accomplishes the same goal of defining aspects of state-ness, but adds alot of compound-term complexity. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C87194 |
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Damion's note: Placing or "multihoming" state (a governmental region) under various classes means that the entity can be interpreted within the respective class, and can inherit properties/axioms of that class State under "categorical" yeilds a uri enabling reference to the state as a unique entity. State under "area" references the polygon region bounding the state. State under "geopolitical region" references concepts of governance and law. State under "name" references its name, a string. Complications arise: a state can change names, boundaries, laws, etc. over time. On a data entry form we're primarily intersted in state as categorical item (= pulldown list). In cases of countries where we don't have lists of states or provinces, then we could accept "state name" - a string - in form input? One could create "state name" as an ontology term, etc. Organizing state concept as a compendium of "state name" ,"state area" , "state boundary" etc. accomplishes the same goal of defining aspects of state-ness, but adds alot of compound-term complexity. |
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State |
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NCIT:C87194 |
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State |
| textual definition |
A constituent administrative district of a nation. |
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