Address

Definition

Address. The particulars of the place where a person or an organisation is located. An Index to a location to which communications may be delivered.

Notes

As conceptually defined by the INSPIRE Address Representation data type: "Representation of an address spatial object for use in external application schemas that need to include the basic, address information in a readable way.".

The representation of Addresses varies widely from one country's postal system to another. Even within countries, there are almost always examples of Addresses that do not conform to the stated national standard.

Work is progressing on ISO 19160-1 that defines a method through which different Addresses can be converted from one conceptual model to another.

This EProcurement Ontology specification is based on the INSPIRE Address Representation data type. It is noteworthy that if an Address is provided using the detailed breakdown suggested by the properties for this class, then it will be INSPIRE-conformant. To this very granular set of properties, we add two further properties:

• full address (the complete address as a formatted string)
• addressID (a unique identifier for the address)

The first of these allows publishers to simply provide the complete Address as one string, with or without formatting. This is analogous to vCard's label property.