The purpose of the Country Representation ontology, based on ISO 3166 and other representations of countries, such as the ISO Online Browsing Platform, SWIFT registry, UN FAO and CIA World Factbook, and GeoNames, is to provide a systematic description of the vocabulary used for country and geopolitical entity representation (based strictly on requirements for business applications, not broader geographic or political uses). A few additional properties to support geophysical coordinates, identified in the UN FAO and CIA World Factbook as well as from the well-known GeoNames ontology, have been added, but extensions to support other coding systems, such as the FAOSTAT code, have not been included. ISO 3166 provides universally applicable coded representations of names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest and their subdivisions. - ISO 3166-1 (Country codes) establishes codes that represent the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest, on the basis of lists of country names obtained from the United Nations. - ISO 3166-2 (Country subdivision code) establishes a code that represents the names of the principal administrative divisions, or similar areas, of the countries, etc. included in the ISO 3166-1. - ISO 3166-3 (Code for formerly used names of countries) establishes a code that represents non-current country names, i.e., the country names deleted from ISO 3166 since its first publication in 1974. This ontology reflects the first two parts of ISO 3166, revised to reflect the latest modifications made by the relevant registrars via the sources mentioned above. It has been partitioned into 3 components: (1) the essential concept system describing the standard (this ontology), (2) lcc-3166-1 contains all of the individuals specified in ISO 3166-1, and (3) lcc-3166-2 contains the individuals specified in ISO 3166-2. A fourth ontology, supporting ISO 3166-3, may be added if requirements from the OMG community arise. Country and Subdivision Representation Ontology arranges in categories according to shared characteristics classifies relates a geopolitical entity to its approximate coordinates has approximate coordinates indicates any portion of something, regardless of whether the portion itself is attached to the remainder or detached; cognitively salient or arbitrarily demarcated; self-connected or disconnected; homogeneous or gerrymandered; material or immaterial; extended or unextended; spatial or temporal has part relates a geopolitical entity to another geopolitical entity that is a subdivision of it has subdivision relates a country to another geopolitical entity in ISO 3166 that is a territory of that country has territory indicates the classifier used to characterize something is classified by relates something to another thing that it is some component or portion of, regardless of how that whole-part relationship is manifested, i.e., attached to the remainder or detached; cognitively salient or arbitrarily demarcated; self-connected or disconnected; homogeneous or gerrymandered; material or immaterial; extended or unextended; spatial or temporal; the most generic part relation, reflexive, asymmetric, and transitive is a part of relates a country subdivision to geopolitical entity that it is a part of is subdivision of is employed by in the process of accomplishing something is used by employs as a means of accomplishing some task or achieving some result uses relates a country or geopolitical entity to the administrative language(s) that entity uses for international communications uses administrative language a unique combination of alphanumeric characters corresponding to the country identifier has country tag The full name, if different from the short form of the country name, in lower case; the formal title as notified by the country concerned to the UN Secretary General. has English full name the short form of the country name, in English has English short name the short form of the country name, in English (capitals) has English short name in capitals the full name, if different from the short form of the country name, in lower case; the formal title as notified by the country concerned to the UN Secretary General has French full name the short form of the country name, in French has French short name the short form of the country name, in French (capitals) has French short name in capitals the local regional or cultural short form of the country name has local short name Also called numeric-3 code in the specification, the three-digit numeric code representing the country name. Recognizing that a numeric code for country names is of advantage (e.g. to provide language independence), a three-digit numeric (numeric-3) code from the range 000 to 899 is also provided in this part of IS0 3166. It is made available by the United Nations Statistics Division. has numeric country code Remarks, such as other widely-used country names and names of geographically separated territories covered by the main entry in the list(the latter are indexed in Annex A) has remarks a unique combination of alphanumeric characters corresponding to the country subdivision code has subdivision tag indicates whether a geopolitical entity stands alone or is part of another country from an international political perspective is independent the digraph representing the country name alpha-2 code the trigraph representing the country name alpha-3 code approximate latitude and longitude coordinates (approximate rectangle) corresponding to the location of the geopolitical entity according to the UN approximate coordinates a geopolitical entity representing a country or dependent territory according to the United Nations country similar to the language identifier specified in ISO 639, a string of letters assigned to a country or other geopolitical entity name specified in ISO 3166-1 for the purpose of uniquely representing it country identifier a geopolitical entity, typically a division of a country, dependency, or other area of special geopolitical interest related to a country or other geopolitical entity referenced in ISO 3166-1 country subdivision any country, federal province, city or other administrative unit that represents a geophysical location and has some political identity geopolitical entity a named geographic place location similar to the language identifier specified in ISO 639, a string of letters assigned to a country subdivision for the purpose of uniquely representing it subdivision code a classification scheme for subdivisions of a geopolitical entity, as defined in ISO 3166-2 (noting that there may be more than one kind for a given country or other entity) kind of subdivision 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Copyright (c) 2015 Object Management Group, Inc. Copyright (c) 2015 Adaptive Inc. Copyright (c) 2015 Thematix Partners LLC Copyright (c) 2015 Unisys http://www.omg.org/techprocess/ab/SpecificationMetadata/MITLicense CountryRepresentation.rdf lcc-cr The purpose of the Country Representation ontology, based on ISO 3166 and other representations of countries, such as the ISO Online Browsing Platform, SWIFT registry, UN FAO and CIA World Factbook, and GeoNames, is to provide a systematic description of the vocabulary used for country and geopolitical entity representation (based strictly on requirements for business applications, not broader geographic or political uses). A few additional properties to support geophysical coordinates, identified in the UN FAO and CIA World Factbook as well as from the well-known GeoNames ontology, have been added, but extensions to support other coding systems, such as the FAOSTAT code, have not been included. ISO 3166 provides universally applicable coded representations of names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest and their subdivisions. - ISO 3166-1 (Country codes) establishes codes that represent the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest, on the basis of lists of country names obtained from the United Nations. - ISO 3166-2 (Country subdivision code) establishes a code that represents the names of the principal administrative divisions, or similar areas, of the countries, etc. included in the ISO 3166-1. - ISO 3166-3 (Code for formerly used names of countries) establishes a code that represents non-current country names, i.e., the country names deleted from ISO 3166 since its first publication in 1974. This ontology reflects the first two parts of ISO 3166, revised to reflect the latest modifications made by the relevant registrars via the sources mentioned above. It has been partitioned into 3 components: (1) the essential concept system describing the standard (this ontology), (2) lcc-3166-1 contains all of the individuals specified in ISO 3166-1, and (3) lcc-3166-2 contains the individuals specified in ISO 3166-2. A fourth ontology, supporting ISO 3166-3, may be added if requirements from the OMG community arise. ISO 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions- Part 1: Country codes, Second edition, 2006-11-15 ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions- Part 2: Country subdivision code, First edition, 1998-12-15 ISO 3166-3 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions- Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, First edition, 1998-03-01 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, see http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/en/ Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Online Directories, see http://www.swift.com/bsl/index.faces CIA World Factbook, see https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ (1) The present version of the ontology covers the English sections of the standard only, and (2) UTF-8 character encodings are employed in names to support the broadest number of tools. http://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Languages/LanguageRepresentation/ http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/owl#w3c_all http://www.omg.org/spec/ODM/ arranges in categories according to shared characteristics relates a geopolitical entity to its approximate coordinates http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo/en/ indicates any portion of something, regardless of whether the portion itself is attached to the remainder or detached; cognitively salient or arbitrarily demarcated; self-connected or disconnected; homogeneous or gerrymandered; material or immaterial; extended or unextended; spatial or temporal Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/ relates a geopolitical entity to another geopolitical entity that is a subdivision of it relates a country to another geopolitical entity in ISO 3166 that is a territory of that country The isIndependent flag indicates whether or not a 'country' is in fact independent, but does not indicate whether or not it is self-governing. The UN FAO ontology distinguishes between these two cases, which can be added as an extension if required in a subsequent version of this specification. http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo/en/ indicates the classifier used to characterize something Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/ relates something to another thing that it is some component or portion of, regardless of how that whole-part relationship is manifested, i.e., attached to the remainder or detached; cognitively salient or arbitrarily demarcated; self-connected or disconnected; homogeneous or gerrymandered; material or immaterial; extended or unextended; spatial or temporal; the most generic part relation, reflexive, asymmetric, and transitive relates a country subdivision to geopolitical entity that it is a part of is employed by in the process of accomplishing something employs as a means of accomplishing some task or achieving some result relates a country or geopolitical entity to the administrative language(s) that entity uses for international communications a unique combination of alphanumeric characters corresponding to the country identifier The full name, if different from the short form of the country name, in lower case; the formal title as notified by the country concerned to the UN Secretary General. the short form of the country name, in English the short form of the country name, in English (capitals) the full name, if different from the short form of the country name, in lower case; the formal title as notified by the country concerned to the UN Secretary General the short form of the country name, in French the short form of the country name, in French (capitals) the local regional or cultural short form of the country name Also called numeric-3 code in the specification, the three-digit numeric code representing the country name. Recognizing that a numeric code for country names is of advantage (e.g. to provide language independence), a three-digit numeric (numeric-3) code from the range 000 to 899 is also provided in this part of IS0 3166. It is made available by the United Nations Statistics Division. Remarks, such as other widely-used country names and names of geographically separated territories covered by the main entry in the list(the latter are indexed in Annex A) a unique combination of alphanumeric characters corresponding to the country subdivision code indicates whether a geopolitical entity stands alone or is part of another country from an international political perspective the digraph representing the country name This part of IS0 3166 establishes an alphabetic 2-character (alpha-2) code which is generally recommended to represent country names and which is the basis for the codes laid down in IS0 3166-2 and IS0 3166-3 and for other international standards and recommendations. The alpha-2 code uses combinations, in upper case, of two letters of the 26-character Roman alphabet (ignoring diacritic signs) from the range AA to ZZ. the trigraph representing the country name This part of IS0 3166 also provides an alphabetic 3-character (alpha-3) code, based on the alpha-2 code, and using combinations, in upper case, of three letters of the 26-character Roman alphabet (ignoring diacritic signs) from the range AAA to ZZZ, for use in cases where a specific need has been identified. Attention is drawn to the fact that other 3-letter codes for some country names are used in other contexts (e.g., US MARC standard). approximate latitude and longitude coordinates (approximate rectangle) corresponding to the location of the geopolitical entity according to the UN a geopolitical entity representing a country or dependent territory according to the United Nations Countries are named using the English short country names officially used by the ISO. The ISO uses country names from United Nations sources and hence, names such as Palestinian Territory, Occupied and Taiwan, Province of China reflect political status within the UN. similar to the language identifier specified in ISO 639, a string of letters assigned to a country or other geopolitical entity name specified in ISO 3166-1 for the purpose of uniquely representing it a geopolitical entity, typically a division of a country, dependency, or other area of special geopolitical interest related to a country or other geopolitical entity referenced in ISO 3166-1 any country, federal province, city or other administrative unit that represents a geophysical location and has some political identity a named geographic place similar to the language identifier specified in ISO 639, a string of letters assigned to a country subdivision for the purpose of uniquely representing it a classification scheme for subdivisions of a geopolitical entity, as defined in ISO 3166-2 (noting that there may be more than one kind for a given country or other entity)