@prefix rdf: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix owl: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix skos: . @prefix : . # ---- Ontology declaration ----------------------------------------------- a owl:Ontology ; rdfs:label "Linked GISCO vocabulary"@en , "Linked-GISCO-Vokabular"@de ; dcterms:title "Linked GISCO vocabulary"@en , "Linked-GISCO-Vokabular"@de ; dcterms:description "The wrapper-local terms minted by the linked-gisco wrapper that are not covered by the standard vocabularies it otherwise uses (SKOS for the classification, W3C basic geo and OGC GeoSPARQL for the spatial answers): the per-LAU demographic attributes carried on each LAU concept, and the Linked Data Service (LIDS) terms for the /search and /contains endpoints (with both the NUTS-side vocab:level and the LAU-side vocab:country facets). Stable English local-names are the identifiers; rdfs:label carries display names in en + de."@en ; dcterms:hasPart . # ---- Per-LAU demographic attributes ------------------------------------- :population2024 a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "population (2024)"@en , "Einwohnerzahl (2024)"@de ; rdfs:domain skos:Concept ; rdfs:range xsd:integer ; rdfs:comment "Resident population of the LAU (GISCO 2024 edition); omitted when the source value is 0 (missing/unavailable)."@en . :populationDensity2024 a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "population density (2024)"@en , "Bevölkerungsdichte (2024)"@de ; rdfs:domain skos:Concept ; rdfs:range xsd:decimal ; rdfs:comment "Population per square kilometre of the LAU (GISCO 2024 edition); omitted when the source value is 0."@en . :areaKm2 a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "area (km²)"@en , "Fläche (km²)"@de ; rdfs:domain skos:Concept ; rdfs:range xsd:decimal ; rdfs:comment "Area of the LAU in square kilometres (GISCO 2024 edition); omitted when the source value is 0."@en . # ---- Linked Data Service (LIDS) terms ----------------------------------- # The /search endpoint is modelled as a Linked Data Service (Speiser & Harth, # "Integrating Linked Data and Services with Linked Data Services", ESWC 2011): # the service call is reified as a named input entity (a vocab:Query) under a #id # fragment, minted from the query parameters and related to each matching LAU # via vocab:result. Resolving the call URI returns the input and its result links. # In Turtle the call entity is relativized against the query-less /search base, so # it serializes host-free as . This mirrors the geo:Point input entity the # /contains endpoint already reifies, and the mastr:Query of the sibling # linked-mastr wrapper. :Query a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:label "Search query"@en , "Suchanfrage"@de ; rdfs:comment "The input entity of a /search service call: the active query facets (vocab:queryText and the optional vocab:country), related via vocab:result to each matching LAU concept."@en . :queryText a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "query text"@en , "Suchtext"@de ; rdfs:domain :Query ; rdfs:range xsd:string ; rdfs:comment "The case-folded GISCO_ID/name substring a /search query matches a LAU's GISCO_ID or local-language name on."@en . :country a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "country filter"@en , "Länder-Filter"@de ; rdfs:domain :Query ; rdfs:range xsd:string ; rdfs:comment "The 2-letter country code (e.g. DE) a /search query restricts its hits to, when given."@en . :level a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "NUTS level filter"@en , "NUTS-Ebenen-Filter"@de ; rdfs:domain :Query ; rdfs:range xsd:integer ; rdfs:comment "The NUTS level (0..3) a /search query restricts its hits to, when given."@en . :result a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "query result"@en , "Abfrageergebnis"@de ; rdfs:domain :Query ; rdfs:range skos:Concept ; rdfs:comment "Links a /search query to one of its matching LAU concepts."@en . # ---- Region classes and the country code list --------------------------- # What a region IS (Andreas / app-erdapfel, 2026-11-10; linked-family # checklist-geo.md, "Classes and code lists"): one class per NUTS level and one # for LAU, beside the SKOS classification (every region stays a skos:Concept in # its cl/{level} or cl/{CC} scheme). A region's COUNTRY is not a class but a # code list value: the list is cl/0, whose values are the NUTS level-0 regions # (nuts/{CC}#it), so the values of :inCountry are exactly the :Nuts0Region # instances. Every region, NUTS or LAU, states :inCountry directly. :Region a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:label "Region (GISCO)"@en , "Gebiet (GISCO)"@de ; rdfs:comment "A territorial unit of the European statistical system as published by Eurostat GISCO: a NUTS region at one of the levels 0 to 3, or a local administrative unit (LAU)."@en . :NutsRegion a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :Region ; rdfs:label "NUTS region"@en , "NUTS-Region"@de ; skos:notation "NUTS" ; rdfs:comment "A region of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), at one of the levels 0 (country) to 3 (small region)."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso . :Nuts0Region a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :NutsRegion ; rdfs:label "NUTS 0 region (country)"@en , "NUTS-0-Region (Staat)"@de ; skos:notation "0" ; rdfs:comment "A NUTS region at level 0: a country. The NUTS 0 regions are the values of the country code list cl/0 (see :inCountry)."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso . :Nuts1Region a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :NutsRegion ; rdfs:label "NUTS 1 region (major region)"@en , "NUTS-1-Region (Großregion)"@de ; skos:notation "1" ; rdfs:comment "A NUTS region at level 1: a major socio-economic region (in Germany a Land)."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso . :Nuts2Region a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :NutsRegion ; rdfs:label "NUTS 2 region (basic region)"@en , "NUTS-2-Region (Grundregion)"@de ; skos:notation "2" ; rdfs:comment "A NUTS region at level 2: a basic region for the application of regional policies (in Germany a Regierungsbezirk or comparable)."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso . :Nuts3Region a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :NutsRegion ; rdfs:label "NUTS 3 region (small region)"@en , "NUTS-3-Region (Kleinregion)"@de ; skos:notation "3" ; rdfs:comment "A NUTS region at level 3: a small region for specific diagnoses (in Germany a Kreis or kreisfreie Stadt)."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso . :LauRegion a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf :Region ; rdfs:label "Local administrative unit (LAU)"@en , "Gemeinde (LAU)"@de ; skos:notation "LAU" ; rdfs:comment "A local administrative unit (LAU): a municipality or equivalent, the building block of the NUTS 3 regions. In Germany a Gemeinde; the GISCO_ID after DE_ is its 8-digit AGS."@en . :inCountry a rdf:Property ; rdfs:label "country"@en , "Staat"@de ; rdfs:domain :Region ; rdfs:range :Nuts0Region ; rdfs:comment "The country a region lies in, as a value of the country code list cl/0: the NUTS 0 region nuts/{CC}#it (CC as GISCO writes it: EL for Greece). Stated on every region, so a client need not walk skos:broader to level 0. A NUTS 0 region is in itself."@en ; rdfs:seeAlso .