• specification of geographic boundaries (a good challenge for a geospatial ontology)
• a mapping between countries and AORs
• a mapping between unified commands and their component unit hierarchies

This is now available at http://www.daml.org/2003/02/ucp/. ]]> WebElements might provide a starting point.

This is now available at http://www.daml.org/2003/01/periodictable/. ]]> http://www.daml.org/2002/10/sndl/ provides UICs for U.S. Navy units only. ]]> Microsoft Access database the North American Numbering Plan Authority.

This is now available at http://www.daml.org/2002/02/telephone/. ]]> An official ASCII list of current Representatives is available here. FIPS 9-1 may also be helpful. ]]> Internet Movie Database, providing cross-referenced access to movies, actors, awards, etc. ]]> A data source that appears to be amenable to use with the DAML HTML Gateway Tools or similar screen scrapers is available here. ]]> Dublin Core ontology, keyed by ISBN URNs. ]]> ISSN. ]]> assigned names and numbers, etc., ideally across multiple registries. The information available at InterNIC, rwhois.net, or ARIN may provide a starting point.

Paul Neves is working on a DAML interface to RWHOIS. ]]> The Defense Manpower Data Center provides such information for authorized users. ]]> The zone.tab file in the tzdataD.tar.gz data file for the public-domain tz database used by many Unix implementations includes a mapping from ISO 3166 2-character country codes to timezones.

USC ISI is working on this.

W3C has provided http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd. ]]> ITU-T E.164 telephone dialing codes as properties to ISO country code instances.

See also www.numberplan.org, www.numberingplans.com, and www.wtng.info.

This is now available at http://www.daml.org/2003/02/e164/. ]]> Uniform Code Council and used on various product bar codes identify specific manufacturers and products. An unofficial open source is upcdatabase.com. UCCnet may also be relevant. ]]> gateway to http://www.uspto.gov and corresponding sites for other jurisdictions. ]]> gateway to http://www.uspto.gov and corresponding sites for other jurisdictions. ]]> UNESCAP Asian Highway Country Data (Excel example). ]]> Information on U.S. stations can be downloaded from the FCC CDBS Public Access site. ]]> FIPS 5-2 or USPS standard abbreviations.

Terry Payne provided USRegionState.daml in April 2001. ]]> See also ISO 31 and ISO 1000.

Mike Dean is working on converting units.lib from the GNU Units package into DAML. ]]> The CIA World Factbook includes currency codes for each country.

See also ISO 4217.

Terry Payne has provided http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ont/currency.daml. ]]> Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Extra credit for schedules, fares, distances, street crossings, historical data, geographic locations, locality boundaries, and connections to airports, trains, buses, ferries, etc.

This is now available at http://www.daml.org/2003/05/subway/. ]]> See HospitalWeb. ]]> Library of Congress and collaborators have developed the MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC 21, ISO 2709) set of standards for bibliographic and related information. These includes standard identifiers for countries, geographic areas, languages, organizations, etc. Approaches to using MARC and XML and MARC and Dublin Core are also available. ]]> ISO 639-2 language codes.

A mapping between countries and their (official) language(s) would also be useful. This could be accomplished by mapping (using owl:equivalentTo) the ISO language instances to the corresponding language instances in the CIA World Fact Book in DAML. ]]> Open Source Initiative. Possibly apply this to DAML Tools. ]]> Top 500 rankings of world supercomputers. ]]> National Register of Historic Places. The Register database can be downloaded from the NRIS Download Center. ]]>