SKOS-Core 1.0: Adding a 'ConceptScheme' class

• From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
• Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:15:27 -0000
• To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <350DC7048372D31197F200902773DF4C04944106@exchange11.rl.ac.uk>

Hi,

I'm thinking SKOS-Core 1.0 should have a class like <skos:ConceptScheme>.
So when someone defines a concept scheme (e.g. a thesaurus), they can give
it a URI and type it appropriately.

Quick discussion of some alternatives:

I would have called it <skos:Thesaurus> but I'm still aiming slightly more
generic than thesauri (am trying to shoot in between lots of different
communities with different legacy perspectives - 'ConceptScheme' is more
neutral and self-descriptive than 'Thesaurus' which means different things
to different people).

Also, I don't think <dct:SubjectScheme> is appropriate, because as Phil from
English Heritage pointed out, a lot of thesauri are used for things other
than subject based indexing.

Any comments?

Al.

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