Define/use a taxonomy for countries and territories

[espinr]

There are several Places in the model, as well as PostalAddresses. To guarantee interoperability we need to recommend the way to describe countries.

At first sight, I would recommend ISO 3166 codes, but I found that IAAF uses IOC codes that are different. For instance: SLO (IOC) - SVN (ISO3166) for Slovenia.

A colleague of mine suggested using a third schema wich includes both code schemes, also aligned with others such as ITU, NATO, IATA, etc. This could solve some of the problems we have:

• More than countries. Hierarchically we can have countries>regions>counties>cities.
• Multilingualism. Place names translated into dozens of languages. (e.g. فنلینڈ <- Finland in Urdu).

I have to check if we can customize the list for us. This is, having a easy way to get the code (URI).

[spitxa]

i've just created some datasets focusing on the 'administrative' levels of the iaaf, more specifically regional affiliations (i.e. eaa, caa, etc.) [1] & national federations (i.e. gibraltar amateur athletic association) [2].

[1] http://idi.fundacionctic.org/disaster-fp7-skosic/describe?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Femergel%2Fmodules%23IAAFRegions&lang=en

[2] http://idi.fundacionctic.org/disaster-fp7-skosic/describe?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Femergel%2Fmodules%23EAA_FEDERATION_GIB&lang=en

[espinr]

Country and Continent defined using the EU NAL codes.