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Country code is valid

Rule Definition

Country code is a value from NAL "Countries and territories".


Additional Information

Rule elaboration

Validity Business Rule with ID VAL004 as defined in deliverable D06.06 – Data Quality Action Plan.

Ontology property involved: http://data.europa.eu/a4g/ontology#hasCountryCode

Link to the NAL: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/concept-scheme/-/resource?uri=http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country

NAL stands for "Name authority list".

Rule source

https://code.europa.eu/eproc/ppds/documentation/-/blob/main/documents/d0606_data_quality_action_plan.md#22-validity-business-rules

Rule implementation

ppsh:Address-hasCountryCode-values

Implementation note

Implementation in the SHACL shapes graph:

ppsh:Address-hasCountryCode-values a sh:SPARQLConstraint ;
    sh:description "The provided country code must be listed in the applicable controlled list." ;
    sh:severity sh:Warning ;
    sh:message "VAL004" ;
    sh:name "Country code is valid" ;
    sh:targetClass dct:Location ;
    sh:select """
        PREFIX epo: <http://data.europa.eu/a4g/ontology#>
        SELECT $this (epo:hasCountryCode AS ?path) (?countryCode AS ?value) WHERE {
		   $this a dct:Location .
		   $this epo:hasCountryCode ?countryCode .
		   ?countryCode skos:inScheme <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country> .
		}

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Related rules

#46

#49

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Edited by Enrique Jose Barcala Soto