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YSO-places is a
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bilingual (Finnish, Swedish) ontology of places (geographic gazetteer), intended for general use. YSO places includes concepts
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referring to administrative and other
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areas as well as
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physical geography selected to meet the content description
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needs of GLAM institutions in particular. The concepts refer to current and historical places in and outside Finland. For places outside
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Finland mainly countries and cities are
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included. Other places are authorized if the concepts are need repetitively in content description.
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YSO places has a hierarchical structure
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based on
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part-whole relations (iso-thes:broaderPartitive) between concepts. For
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Finnish places the
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hierarchical relations rely on the structure of the Place Name Register of the National Land Survey of Finland. In addition to
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part-whole relations, concepts are linked by associative relations (skos:hasRelated).
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Places located in Finland are linked to the Place Name Register
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of the National Land Survey of Finland to enable users to search for locations and other information. Finnish places are classified in accordance with the Place Name Register. The place types and their identifiers are listed here.
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Some of the places are linked to
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Wikidata.
The
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forms of names for concepts have been
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verified from authorised sources and are
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based on Finnish spelling rules. Additionally, about one half of the
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concepts have labels in English which are mainly based on Wikidata.
The concepts of YSO places are based originally on the geographical concets in the General Finnsh Thesaurus (YSA) and its Swedish language complement (Allärs). There is a skos:exactMatch relationship with concepts in these thesauri.
Adding new concepts
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New term or change proposals can be done with forms accessed at the ontology pages in the finto.fi service. The forms are available both in Finnish and Swedish.
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Namespace
The persistant identifiers of the YSO places concepts use the same namespace as the General Finnish Ontology YSO: http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/
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