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

[Mike Baggaley]

>I also think that full name should be used for heritage:operator=Historic
>England

I agree - operator is a name type field, and can see no reason why heritage:operator should be treated differently.

>I would like refs to be GB namespaced.... ref:GB:he, ref:GB:hs,
>ref:GB:cadw, ref:GB:niea

I disagree with both the GB namespace and the use of the abbreviated operator name. These make it very difficult to extract data from different countries. I suggest heritage:ref is much simpler to use.

Cheers,
Mike

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