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Preamble

Abstract

Note	This Model is under test by Queensland Government and is a candidate model for Australian & New Zealand address information. It is currently an unofficial model that is not yet published as a standard.

A Semantic Web data model of address information that caters specifically for Australian & New Zealand’s address modelling needs.

This model was originally developed between 2021 and 2023 for Queensland Spatial Information, a unit of the Queensland Department of Resources, to assist with their future address database design. It is informed by the ICSM’s Addressing 2035: Addressing Reform and Innovation for Australia and New Zealand, published in late 2021, which listed 'pain points' with current ANZ address models and considered future address modelling needs. This model tries to address the 10 main Requirements established by the Strategy. This model is also informed by both the relational database model used for the G-NAF, Australia’s Geocoded National Address File, and CSIRO work in 2018 to characterise the GNAF in Semantic Web form, the ontology for which is online at https://linked.data.gov.au/def/gnaf, as well as the ISO’s ISO19160-1 Addressing Part 1: Conceptual model. In 2023, several parts of this model covering general modelling issues, such as lifecycle representation, were extracted out into a series of mini-models to allow other models to reuse them without importing this model. As a result, the 2023 version fo this model appears to be greatly reduced in complexity and coverage but coverage is unchanged with those mini-models are also used.

Namespaces

This model is built on a small set of well-regarded Semantic Web models which use a variety of namespaces. Additionally, this model is expected to be used with a series of mini-models which were created alongside it and they also used namespaces. Prefixes for these namespaces, used throughout this document, are listed below.

Prefix	Namespace	Description
addr	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr/	This model
als	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/address-lifecycle-stage-type/	Address Lifecycle Stage Types vocabulary
apt	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/address-part-type/	Address Part Types vocabulary
asgsed3	https://linked.data.gov.au/dataset/asgsed3	Australian Statistical Geographies Standard Dataset, Release 3
cn	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/cn	Compound Naming Model
ex	http://example.com/	Generic examples
geo	http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#	OGC GeoSPARQL
gt	http://www.opengis.net/ont/geocode-types/	Geocode types vocabulary
ls	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/lifecycel	Lifecycle Model
owl	http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#	Web Ontology Language ontology
rdf	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#	The RDF Concepts Vocabulary
rdfs	http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#	RDF Schema ontology
sosa	http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/	Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator ontology
sdo	https://schema.org	schema.org model
skos	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#	Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) ontology
time	http://www.w3.org/2006/time#	Time Ontology in OWL
void	http://rdfs.org/ns/void#	Vocabulary of Interlinked Data (VoID) ontology
xsd	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#	XML Schema Definitions ontology

Conformance

This model’s specification conforms to the OntPub Profile which is a standard for ontology publication that mandates certain structural and metadata properties for the model as a whole and model elements.

Figures

Figures used in this document use the following key:

Figure 1. Key of elements used in this Model’s figures

Example Data

Example data used in this document, for instance in model element "Example" values, are [RDF] data presented in the [TTL] syntax.