1. FACC

2. Feature and attribute Coding Catalogue (FACC) The DIgital Geographic Information Exchange STandard (DIGEST) –prepared by and issued under the authority of the Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG). http://www.digest.org/html/gp4a-toc.htm

3. Standards This international exchange standard has been designed to enable the transfer of Digital Geographic Information (DGI) between geographic information systems. This documentation now forms a baseline from which both system developers and national survey organizations can plan their development and production activities. Research into all aspects of DGI is continuing within the Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG) forum and any subsequent potential changes will be subject to formal change control procedures http://www.digest.org/html/gp4a-toc.htm

4. FACC fragment A - CULTURE AA - Culture-Extraction AA010 Mine AA011 Quarry/Mine Shear Wall AA012 Quarry AA013 Pit AA040 Rig/Superstructure AA050 Well AA051 Wellhead AA052 Oil/Gas Field AA010 An excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting natural deposits. (See also AQ090.) English: Mine French: Mine German: Grube/Zeche Italian: Miniera Dutch: Mijn Spanish: Mina Danish: Mine/brudAQ090

5. FACC in RDF XML format Training Area US-Tide Data Point UK-Tidal Stream Observation Station Green Space Permanent Snowfield Culture-Transportation-Railroad

6. BD010 class is a subclass of BD and BD is a subclass of B Breakers Hydrography-Dangers/Hazards Hydrography BD010 Waves which break over off-lying shoals or near the shore. (See also BD080.)BD080

7. Class categories Upper classes (categories) –A-Z Middle level classes (subcategories) –AA-ZZ (actual last class ZE) Low level classes (tree leaves) –AA000 (actual start is AA010) –ZZ999 (actual end ZE without children, and ZD045 is the last low level class in ZD)

8. FACC OWL Ontology Categories:10 Subcategories:57 Leaves: 540 Total 607 FACC terms in the FACC ontology Free downloadable from CWU server –http://www.cwu.edu/~cs455/cs2002/FACC/facc.owlhttp://www.cwu.edu/~cs455/cs2002/FACC/facc.owl OWL file header <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" > Ontology for FACC, generated CWU