Places
Places is one of our oldest and most mature facets.
It is based around the public ISO 3166-2 country and subdivision codes but enriched with legally relevant information including the treaties and international organisations to which jurisdictions belong. This information changes incrementally.
For the 2025 Q1 v3 release we documented in detail the process for updating. This group’s task is now to update Places in 2026 Q1.
Taxonomy in action
As an illustration of what can be built on a solid taxonomical foundation, Rosie Ashbourne has used Power BI to show how a taxonomy of places can be used to enable remixing and exploration of two open datasets. Just imagine what you'll be able to do with your own data.
Watch the video to see Rosie demo the dashboard and click the link below to access the dashboard directly.
Our interest in this topic
“I’m a data governance consultant specialising in helping law firms and legal departments with their challenges in this area, and high quality taxonomy such as this is really important for that work.
Places raises different challenges from the other noslegal taxonomy facets as it’s mostly about gathering established information from various sources and combining it accurately, rather than developing or refining concepts.”