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MPs Show Support of PRADD/CAR in Visit to Mining Villages
The visit of five MPs to PRADD-supported mining villages of Sangha-Mbaere in the Central African Republic (CAR) from September 27 to 30, 2010 was a success beyond expectations.
USAID helps defend a widow’s right to land and property in Tajikistan
Ms. Fayzinisso Ashurova and her five children were unjustly evicted from their home after her husband passed away. The USAID Land Reform Project took Fayzinisso’s case to the Supreme Court, which decided in her favor.
In Tajikistan, as in many developing countries, a range of cultural, social, and political factors combined with a lack of awareness regarding legal issues prevent women from enjoying their rights to land and property, often subjecting them to unjust and sometimes fraudulent practices.
Kenya PROMARA Project Gets Underway
With the posting of the Kenya PROMARA Chief of Party, Ian Deshmukh, in August 2010 the PROMARA project has officially begun. PROMARA is a two-year PRRGP project working with USAID/Kenya in the Mau Forest Complex towards the southwest of Kenya. PROMARA, or “for the Mara”, aims to enhance sustainable and equitable management of Kenya’s rich biodiverse resource areas, which are essential to the protection of the human environment and natural ecosystems.
Kenya PROMARA Project Gets Underway.
New Country Profiles Posted Under PRRG Products
Country profiles for 62 USAID presence countries have been drafted to provide information on key issues and constraints for land tenure security, legal framework and land administration, as well as summaries of tenure issues with freshwater, trees and forests and minerals for each country. Check back under the PRRG Products tab, Country Profiles for additional profiles.
PRADD Diamonds, Development and Property Rights Video Wins Award of Excellence!
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for Communications Professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, the Communicator Awards receives over 9,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.
PRADD Diamonds, Development and Property Rights Video Wins Award of Excellence!
PRADD Project Expansion into Liberia
PRRGP chief of party Mark Freudenberger and land tenure specialist Kent Elbow carried out a scoping mission to Liberia from March 27-April 10, 2010 which led to the decision to open up a new PRADD program in Liberia. The new chief of party, Bocar Thiam, and administration and finance director, Robert Merritt, are setting up the new project headquartered in Monrovia. Work plans are being developed in close collaboration with the Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy in preparation for the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Project (PRADD) COP Attends Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
The PRRGP chief of party, Mark Freudenberger, attended the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in Tel Aviv, Israel from June 21-24, 2010.
Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Project (PRADD) COP Attends Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Data Model for Land Portal (exposed as LOD)
Introduction
The model is designed on top of the following existing vocabularies:
- Dublin Core for properties common to most resources
- The Bibliographic Ontology for more specialized properties for bibliographic resources
- The FOAF vocabulary for properties of entities like persons and organizations
- The Schema.org vocabulary for properties of all relevant entities (creative works, persons, organizations, events, places)
- The SKOS vocabulary for all related concepts
The result is in line with the recommendations of the AIMS LODE-BD (Recommendations for LOD-enabled Bibliographic Description).
Table 1. Namespaces used in the Land Library RDF data model
Prefix | Namespace |
---|---|
bibo | http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ |
dc | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
dct | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
edm | http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/ |
foaf | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ |
geonames | http://www.geonames.org/ontology# |
odrl | http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/ |
org | http://www.w3.org/ns/org# |
owl | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# |
prov | http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# |
rdf | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# |
rdfs | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# |
schema | http://schema.org/ |
skos | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# |
Data Model Entities and properties
This is the list of all the data model entities:
- Land Library Resource
- News
- Blog Post
- Event
- Organization
- Organization Type
- Person
- Region (Country, Continent/Subcontinent)
- LandVoc Theme
- LandVoc Concept
- Land Library Resource Type
- Language
- License
- Profile (of a person)
- Project
Entity: Land Library Resource
RDF types:
dct:BibliographicResource, bibo:Document, schema:CreativeWork, prov:Entity, edm:ProvidedCHO
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/library/resource/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Land Library Resource
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:name | literal |
Subtitle | dct:alternative | literal |
Abstract or Description | dct:description, schema:description, bibo:abstract | literal |
Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s) | dc:contributor | literal |
Corporate Author | dct:creator, schema:author | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Resource Type | dct:type | resource (Entity: Land Library Resource Type) |
Date of publication | dct:issued, schema:datePublished | literal (xsd:date) |
Language | dct:language | resource (Entity: Language) |
Publisher | dct:publisher, schema:publisher | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Data Provider | prov:wasDerivedFrom, schema:provider, edm:dataProvider | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Pages | dct:extent | literal |
Duration | dct:extent, schema:duration | literal |
ISBN / Resource ID | dct:identifier | literal |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Originally publish at | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownAt | resource |
Resource URL | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownBy | resource |
Attached file | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownBy | resource |
Image/Thumbnail | schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl | resource |
License | dct:license, schema:license | resource (Entity: License) |
Copyright details | dc:rights | literal |
Entity: News
RDF types:
schema:NewsArticle
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/news/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: News
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:headline | literal |
Author(s) | dc:creator, schema:author | literal |
Date of publication | dct:issued, schema:datePublished | literal (xsd:date) |
Language | dct:language, schema:inLanguage | resource (Entity: Language) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Source | dct:source, schema:citation | resource |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Image/Thumbnail | schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl | resource |
Entity: Blog Post
RDF types:
schema:BlogPosting, sioc:Post, foaf:Document
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/blog-post/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Blog Post
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:headline | literal |
Body | schema:articleBody | literal |
Author | sioc:has_creator | resource (Entity: Person) |
Date of publication | dc:date, dc:created | literal (xsd:dateTime) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Image/Thumbnail |
schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl, schema:sharedContent |
resource |
Entity: Event
RDF types:
schema:Event
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/event/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Event
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, schema:name | literal |
Body | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
Start date | dct:date, schema:startDate | literal (xsd:date) |
Image | schema:image | resource |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Contact / Event organiser | schema:organizer | literal |
More information (Webpages) | schema:url | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related Concepts | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Organization
RDF types:
foaf:Organization, schema:Organization, prov:Entity, org:Organization
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/organization/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Organization
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, schema:name, foaf:name | literal |
Description | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
Acronym | dct:identifier, org:identifier | literal |
Logo | schema:image | resource |
Website | schema:url, foaf:homepage | resource |
Focal point | ||
Phone number | ||
Postal address | schema:address | literal |
Location | - | - |
Affiliated organization | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Members | schema:member | literal |
Working languages | lingvo:workingLanguage | resource (Entity: Language) |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Organization Type | dct:type | resource (Entity: Organization Type)) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Organization Type
RDF types:
skos:Concept
Values: Taxonomy: Organization types
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:AltLabel | literal |
Parent (Organization Type) | skos:broader | resource |
Entity: Person
RDF classes:
sioc:UserAccount
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | foaf:name | literal |
Entity: Region
It could be a country or a continent/subcontinent
Entity: Country
RDF types:
skos:Concept, schema:Place, dct:Location, geonames:Feature,lb:Country
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/geo/{ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code (aka ISO3)}
Graph (SPARQL):
http://countries.landportal.info
Values: Subset of Taxonomy: Regions
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | literal | |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code (aka ISO3) | literal | |
Entity: Continent/SubContinent
RDF types:
skos:Concept, schema:Place, dct:Location, geonames:Feature
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/geo/{Area code (UN M.49)}
Graph (SPARQL):
http://regions.landportal.info
Values: Subset of Taxonomy: Regions
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, dct:title, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition, dct:description, rdfs:comment | literal |
Area code (UN M.49) | dct:identifier, skos:notation | literal |
Synonyms | skos:altLabel | literal |
Parent region | skos:broader | resource (Entity: Region) |
Entity: LandVoc Theme
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/voc/landvoc/theme/{theme-ID}
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Theme
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
ID | skos:notation | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
Image | schema:image | resource |
Related LandVoc concepts | skos:related | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: LandVoc Concept (Curated)
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
Agrovoc URI
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Concepts
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel | literal (with lang) |
Entity: LandVoc Concept (Drupal Raw)
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
Agrovoc URI
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Concepts
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
Agrovoc URI | skos:exactMatch, owl:sameAs | resource |
Entity: Land Library Resource Type
RDF types:
skos:Concept
Values: Taxonomy: Land Library Resource Types
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:AltLabel | literal |
Parent (LL Resource Type) | skos:broader | resource |
Entity: Language
RDF types:
skos:Concept, lvont:Language
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/voc/language/{ISO 639-1 code}
Values: Taxonomy: Languages
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Language code (ISO 639-1) | lvont:iso639P1Code | literal |
Language code (ISO 639-3) | lvont:iso639P3Code | literal |
Entity: License
RDF types:
skos:Concept, odrl:Policy
URI pattern:
RDFLicense URI
Values: Taxonomy: Licenses
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Acronym | skos:notation, dct:identifier | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
RDFLicense URI | skos:exactMatch, owl:sameAs | resource |
Entity: Profile
RDF types:
foaf:Person
URI pattern:
https://landportal.org/users/{username}
Values: People
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Title | foaf:title | literal |
First Name | foaf:firstName | literal |
Last Name | foaf:lastName | literal |
Description | dct:description, vivo:overview | literal |
Picture | foaf:depiction, schema:image | resource |
Public email | foaf:mbox | literal |
Website | foaf:homepage | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Project
RDF types:
foaf:Project
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/project/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Project
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, schema:name, foaf:name | literal |
Description | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
ID | dct:identifier | literal |
Acronym | - | literal |
Logo | schema:image | resource |
Extension | - | - |
Project value | - | literal |
Contact information | schema:contactPoint | literal |
Websites of the project | schema:url, foaf:homepage | resource |
Donors | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Implementers | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Associated staff | - | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Data Provider | schema:provider | resource (Entity: Organization) |
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