Municipal Ontologies

These are possible sources for informing municipal ontologies.

LCGL/IPSV

 * The Local Government Category List (LGCL) was developed by the LAWs Project to define the subject matter of local government and related community resources according to a common vocabulary
 * http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/lgcl/1.03/lgcl-schema/
 * The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) is an 'encoding scheme' for populating the e-GMS Subject element of metadata. It is fully compliant with ISO 2788 and BS 8723, the International and British Standards for monolingual thesauri. The vocabulary was developed with the backing of the ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) and the eGU (Cabinet Office e-Government Unit). Version 1.00 was released in April 2005; Version 2.00 supersedes it, as of 3 April 2006.
 * Version 1 was developed by merging three earlier lists: the GCL (Government Category List), LGCL (Local Government Category List) and seamlessUK taxonomy. It had 2732 preferred terms and 4230 non-preferred. Version 2 is much bigger, with 3080 preferred terms and 4843 non-preferred. As a result, IPSV now covers internal-facing as well as public-oriented topics
 * http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/
 * Viewer: http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/viewer/viewer.aspx
 * Mark van Assem, Véronique Malaisé, Alistair Miles, and Guus Schreiber, 2008. A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS; see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.95.9668&rep=rep1&type=pdf
 * http://thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/
 * Original XML data file: http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/ipsv.xml
 * Original XML Schema filehttp://www.esd.org.uk/standards/xmlschemas/taxonomy-v3.0.xsd
 * Conversion program: convertipsv.pl (contains instructions for usage)
 * Resulting RDF: http://thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/ipsv/rdf/ipsv.rdf
 * SKOS Core schema: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/history/2005-10-14 (version used for this paper, for latest version see here)
 * Additional IPSV schema: ipsv/ipsv1-eswc06.rdfs
 * eGIF (e-Government Interoperability Framework)
 * Tags for citizens project aims to empower the citizens’ experience within the Turin municipality website (http://www.comune.torino.it) integrating a standard top-down taxonomy with a bottom-up classification by tags; see http://lucarosati.it/download/tags-for-citizens.pdf

Los (Norwegian)

 * Los (Norwegian) public sector/municipal taxonomy in Topic Maps: http://topicmaps.bouvet.no/blog/2010/02/18/los/
 * http://los.difi.no/?page_id=644
 * http://los.norge.no/eksport-filer/v1.0/los-alt.xml (full file, also in XTM, but in Norwegian)

Rijeka

 * Mladen Mauher and Vanja Smokvina, 2008. Municipal Asset and Property Management System for the Web Collaborative Environment, See http://www.mmc-consulting.hr/Download/2008/06/13/Municipal_Asset_and_Property_Management_System_for_the_Web_Collaborative_Environment.pdf
 * http://www.mmc-consulting.hr/Download/2008/03/07/Mauher_M_Digital_to_Intelligent_City_Transition_Framework.pdf (useful list of links)

OntoGov

 * OntoGov is a semantics-based platform for the consistent composition, re-configuration and evolution of e-government services
 * http://www.ontogov.com
 * https://sourceforge.net/projects/ontogov/

Towntology

 * http://www.towntology.net/

Access e-Gov

 * http://www.accessegov.org/acegov/web/uk/index.jsp?id=50268

Ontology Portions
URBAN Community Initiative
 * http://athena.ics.forth.gr:9090/RDF/VRP/Examples/DCD100.rdf (http://xml.coverpages.org/dataConsortium.html - Data Consortium Dictionary (DCD) and Namespace (DCN) from 2000 for the commercial real estate sector)
 * OntoWordNet: http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/OWN/OWN.owl (portions applicable)
 * UNSPSC: http://www.daml.org/2004/05/unspsc/unspsc.owl (6.1 MB; products)
 * OntoSem: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~aks1/ontosem.owl (110 K concepts? currently Hakia uses)
 * Urban-Ops (military operations in urban areas; portions perhaps useful): http://www.daml.org/2003/02/urbanops/taxonomy-ont
 * http://harmonisa.uni-klu.ac.at/ontology/skeleton.owl (land use ontologies)