[okfn-labs] The future of Nomenklatura

Mon Nov 11 18:06:38 UTC 2013

Friedrich,

Although pooling sounds good for some sorts of entities, it might not
be so simple for public bodies. If a dataset refers to "Department of
Education" or "Department of Justice" then they may mean the US Bodies
of those names, or the Northern Ireland bodies also of exactly those
names, or may simply have actually meant the UK bodies "Department FOR
Education" or "Ministry of Justice". I even have a metadata provider
that shortens the publisher to simply "Education" and "Justice". So
actually the country that a public body is attached to is crucial to
reconciliation.

It suggests the value in segmenting by country.

David