illustration of the spatial hierarchy

Spatial Hierarchy
creator: Michael Martin
type: Ontology
comment: This vocabulary is used for structuring spatial areas hierarchically. Additionally it is possible to add a temporal dimension to the desired spatial hierarchy.
label: Hierarchie ortsbezogener Ressourcen @de
version info: v0.3 2010/03/10 10:37:00 mdean

Administrative District
type: Class
comment: This Area can be used or country-specific concretised. (For instance as District or province)
label: Administrativer Bereich @de
subclass of: Spatial Area

City
type: Class
label: Stad @nl
label: Stadt @de
subclass of: Spatial Area

Continent
type: Class
label: Kontinent @de
subclass of: Spatial Area

Country
type: Class
label: Land @de
subclass of: Spatial Area

Planet
type: Class
subclass of: Spatial Area

Spatial Area
type: Class
label: Räumliches Gebiet @de
subclass of: SpatialThing

Africa
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Afrika @de

Antarctica
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Antarktis @de

Asia
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Asien @de

Australia
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Australien @de

Earth
contains: Africa
contains: Asia
contains: Australia
contains: Europe
contains: North America
contains: South America
type: Planet
label: Erde @de

Europe
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Europa @de

North America
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Noord Amerika @nl
label: Nordamerika @de

Oceania
contains: Australia
is located in: Earth
type: Spatial Area
label: Ozeanien @de

South America
is located in: Earth
type: Continent
label: Südamerika @de

contains
type: ObjectProperty
comment: Object property to define which geospatial areas contained in the referencing geospatial area.
domain: Spatial Area
inverse of: is located in
label: enthält @de
label: omvatten @nl
range: Spatial Area

has dissolution date
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: To encode temporal dependencies of a spatial area, it is necessary to define its dissoltion date.
domain: Spatial Area
label: hat Auflösungssdatum @de
range: date

has formation date
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: To encode temporal dependencies of a spatial area, it is necessary to define its formation date.
domain: Spatial Area
label: hat Gründungsdatum @de
range: date

has Center
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This Relation aggregates a Spatial Area with it centerpoint-resource
domain: Spatial Area
label: hat Zentrum @de
range: Point

is located in
type: ObjectProperty
comment: Object property to define in which geospatial area the referenced geospatial area is located in.
domain: Spatial Area
inverse of: contains
label: liegt in @de
range: Spatial Area

prior to
type: ObjectProperty
comment: To encode temporal dependencies of a spatial area, it is necessary to aggregate its successor.
domain: Spatial Area
inverse of: subsequent to
label: Vorgänger von @de
range: Spatial Area

subsequent to
type: ObjectProperty
comment: To encode temporal dependencies of a spatial area, it is necessary to aggregate its predecessor.
domain: Spatial Area
inverse of: prior to
label: Nachfolger von @de
range: Spatial Area

Creator
description: Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.
has version: creator-006
issued: 1999-07-02
modified: 2008-01-14
type: Property
comment: An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
note: A second property with the same name as this property has been declared in the dcterms: namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). See the Introduction to the document "DCMI Metadata Terms" (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for an explanation.

SpatialThing
type: Class
comment: Anything with spatial extent, i.e. size, shape, or position. e.g. people, places, bowling balls, as well as abstract areas like cubes.