- From: 'Thomas Baker' <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:22:33 +0100
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:10:20PM -0000, Alistair Miles wrote: > > I'm not so sure... The draft DCMI Abstract Model [1] defines > > "term" to be "The generic name for a property..., vocabulary > > encoding scheme, syntax encoding scheme, or concept taken from > > a controlled vocabulary (concept space)". Then it defines > > "term URI" as "The generic name for a URI reference that > > identifies a term". In other words, it makes a distinction > > between a modeling entity and the identifier for that modeling > > entity. > > It occurs to me that 'concept space' might be a better name for what SKOS > Core currently calls a 'concept scheme'. Any thoughts on this? That sounds good to me - "scheme" is at least as overloaded as "term" and even more ambiguous. Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker Thomas.Baker@izb.fraunhofer.de Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-160-9664-2129 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352 Personal email: thbaker79@alumni.amherst.edu
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