[Talk-GB] Historic England - tagging guidelines - can we agree on the English usage

[Mark Goodge]

On 21/07/2021 11:51, Tony Shield wrote:
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> There is clear conflict between heritage:operator with values of 
> Historic England and he.
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> References are using the tags HE_ref or ref:he with the same value.
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> Data Integrity suggests using one method of tagging and having the 
> documentation clear about which tagging to use.
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> Can we discuss with a view to agreeing one method - the Global heritage 
> style or the UK listed status style?

My personal opinion, for what it's worth, is that the value of 
heritage:operator should be the normal English name, not an 
abbreviation. So

heritage:operator=Historic England
heritage:operator=Cadw
heritage:operator=Historic Environment Scotland
heritage:operator=Northern Ireland Environment Agency

but the ref tag should follow the global pattern, rather than creating 
new tags, and use abbreviations. So, for example:

ref:he=12345
ref:hs=LB2345
ref:cadw=34567
ref:niea=55643

This makes for consistency and better machine reading of the data, while 
preserving human readability of tag values.

Mark