Codelists by Statistics Belgium
From the webpage:
The following codelists have been published according to the principles of linked data:
- NIS codes, the list of alfanumeric codes for indicating administrative geographical areas as applied in statistical applications in Belgium
- NACE 2003, the statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Belgian adaptation, version 2003
- NACE 2008, the statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Belgian adaptation, version 2008
We hope to publish a mapping between NACE 2003 and NACE 2008 soon.
The data sets themselves may not be interesting but I did find the “Explore the dataset” options of interest. You can:
- Lookup a resource by its identifier
- Retrieve identifiers for a label (Reconciliation Service API)
- Search by keyword
I tried Keerbergen, one of the examples under Retrieve identifiers for a label and got this result:
{“result”: [{“id”:”http://id.fedstats.be/nis/24048#id”,”score”:”15″,”name”:”Keerbergen”,
“type”: [“http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept”],”match”: true},{“id”:”http://id.fedstats.be/nis/24048#id”,”score”:”15″,”name”:”Keerbergen”,
“type”: [“http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept”],”match”: true},{“id”:”http://id.fedstats.be/nis/24048#id”,”score”:”15″,”name”:”Keerbergen”,
“type”: [“http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept”],”match”: true},{“id”:”http://id.fedstats.be/nis/24048#id”,”score”:”15″,”name”:”Keerbergen”,
“type”: [“http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept”],”match”: true}]}
Amazing.
Wikipedia reports on Keerbergen as follows:
Keerbergen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkeːrbɛrɣə(n)]) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises only the town of Keerbergen proper. On January 1, 2006 Keerbergen had a total population of 12,444. The total area is 18.39 km² which gives a population density of 677 inhabitants per km².
I would think town or municipality is more of a concept and Keerbergen is a specific place. Yes?
Just to be sure, I also searched for Keerbergen as a keyword, same results, Keerbergen is a concept.
You should check these datasets before drawing any conclusions based upon them.
I first saw this in a tweet by Paul Hermans (who lives in Keerbergen, the town).
What we are treating here are just the nodes in controlled vocabularies used to describe Flemish statistical data; hence the choice of SKOS.
But indeed we are also struggling with the question how to relate these nodes in a list or tree structure to classify observations under, to the real entities being administrative areas having a footprint (space).
BTW. We are aiming to filter redundant results out of the search results in the next release.
Comment by PaulHermans — January 29, 2015 @ 8:46 am