RE: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd review: notes-2

Hi Mark,

No please don't bugger off!!! :)

Yes I agree with you, but N.B. I just made up the values 'indexer' 'general user' and 'editor', and we should probably have an extended discussion before fixing on these as a decent set of roles/audiences, and then mapping them as default audiences for various note types.  I don't want that discussion to hold up the current publication round (which is already well behind schedule), so I'd like to go with them as 'suggestions' for now.  Any objections?

Cheers,

Al.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark van Assem [mailto:mark@cs.vu.nl]
> Sent: 04 October 2005 15:13
> To: Miles, AJ (Alistair)
> Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd review: notes-2
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yep, that's what I was getting at!
> 
> One more thing though: a reason for having the dc:audience is that it 
> enables more flexibility for systems to determine what to show its 
> user or not. Does this mean that if someone does not specify an 
> audience there is a standard audience the system can assume?
> 
> E.g.
> 
> - editorialNote "indexer"
> - changeNote    "editor"
> - historyNote   "general user"
> - definition    "general user"
> 
> (where applications can do with it what they want, but most of the 
> time the rule holds that editors also get everything that indexers 
> get, and also editors get everything that general users get)
> 
> Explaining this displaying/filtering flexibility that SKOS 
> provides is 
> a good "selling point" to include in the text. I'm worried 
> that now it 
> is presented a bit as a "nice additional feature" instead of 
> something 
> we really wanted in the design (instead of the private/public notion).
> 
> If I'm knit-picking now please tell me and I'll bugger off :-)
> Mark.
> 
> 
> Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
> > Hi Mark, all,
> > 
> > OK, how about this:
> > 
> > 
> http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/drafts
/secdocumentation.html?rev=1.6
> > 
> > Added prose examples for various note types.
> > 
> > Also added suggested values for dc:audience property after 
> XML example (in 'documentation as a related resource 
> description' section).
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Al.
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> >>[mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Mark van Assem
> >>Sent: 03 October 2005 09:19
> >>To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> >>Subject: Re: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd review: notes-2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Alistair,
> >>
> >>I think more text/examples are required to explain the difference 
> >>between the editorial, change and historynote (at least it 
> took me a 
> >>lot more text thru the mailing list to get it...).
> >>
> >>Two examples I scraped from Andy [1] and one from Alistair [2]:
> >>
> >><skos:changeNote xml:lang='en'>
> >> > Checked in 2005-08-03T13:30:00-04:00 by userX
> >> > Check in comment: completed changes to all concepts 
> >>relating to pears.
> >> > </skos:changeNote>
> >> >
> >> > But the history note might read:
> >> >
> >> > <skos:historyNote xml:lang='en'>
> >> > Pears were previously listed as a narrower term under vegetables
> >> > instead of fruits.
> >> > </skos:historyNote>
> >>
> >> > ex:conceptA a skos:Concept;
> >> >  skos:prefLabel 'Animals';
> >> >  skos:altLabel 'Fauna';
> >> >  skos:editorialNote [
> >> >    skos:onLbl 'Fauna';
> >> >    rdf:value 'Check with Mr.X. whether to keep "Fauna".';
> >> >  ];
> >> > .
> >>
> >>This makes it more clear what the difference in function/audience 
> >>usually is.
> >>
> >>We could also state that changeNote is likely to be some sort of 
> >>CVS/TMS comment.
> >>
> >>I also think it would be good to have examples for the notes + 
> >>"Documentation as a Related Resource Description" pattern 
> >>(i.e. a note 
> >>+ the dcterms:audience). Remember this is one of the reasons not to 
> >>have ranges for the note properties at all and this may not be 
> >>apparent to most readers. We'd also need an example of when 
> >>one of the 
> >>notes would be for another audience entirely - thereby 
> justifying the 
> >>  recommendation of this pattern.
> >>
> >>BTW still wondering what the values for dcterms:audience 
> should be - 
> >>does anyone have a clue?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Mark.
> >>
> >>[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Aug/0014
> >>[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Aug/0017
> >>
> >>Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
> >>
> >>>Any comments on the following redraft of the 'Documentation 
> >>
> >>Properties' section of the SKOS Core Guide:
> >>
> >>>
> >>http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/drafts
> > 
> > /secdocumentation.html?rev=1.4
> > 
> >>>...?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>Al.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> >>>>[mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Miles, AJ 
> >>>>(Alistair)
> >>>>Sent: 29 September 2005 16:10
> >>>>To: public-esw-thes@w3.org; public-swbp-wg@w3.org; Mark van Assem
> >>>>(E-mail); Ralph Swick (E-mail)
> >>>>Subject: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd review: notes-2
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Re: change proposal notes-2 [1]
> >>>>
> >>>>N.B. this proposal requires the following changes to the SKOS 
> >>>>Core RDF/OWL description:
> >>>>
> >>>>remove statements
> >>>>{
> >>>>skos:definition rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:publicNote.
> >>>>skos:example rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:publicNote.
> >>>>skos:scopeNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:publicNote.
> >>>>skos:historyNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:publicNote.
> >>>>skos:changeNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:privateNote.
> >>>>skos:editorialNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:privateNote.
> >>>>}
> >>>>
> >>>>add statements
> >>>>{
> >>>>skos:publicNote a owl:DeprecatedProperty;
> >>>> dct:isReplacedBy skos:note.
> >>>>
> >>>>skos:privateNote a owl:DeprecatedProperty;
> >>>> dct:isReplacedBy skos:note.
> >>>>
> >>>>skos:note a rdf:Property;
> >>>> rdfs:label 'note'@en;
> >>>> skos:definition 'A general note, for any purpose.'@en;
> >>>> rdfs:comment 'This property may be used directly, or as a 
> >>>>super-property for more specific note types.'@en;
> >>>> skos:example 
> >>>><http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/examples/note.rdf.xml>;
> >>>> rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core>;
> >>>> vs:term_status 'unstable';
> >>>> dct:issued '2005-09-29';
> >>>> dct:replaces skos:privateNote;
> >>>> dct:replaces skos:publicNote;
> >>>>.
> >>>>
> >>>>skos:definition rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>skos:example rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>skos:scopeNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>skos:historyNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>skos:changeNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>skos:editorialNote rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note.
> >>>>}
> >>>>
> >>>>N.B. this proposal also requires redrafting of the section 
> >>>>'Documentation Properties' from the SKOS Core Guide [2].
> >>>>
> >>>>Mark [3] hasn't raised any objections to this change, 
> >>>>although he has noted that the question of audience and 
> >>>>function overlapping possibly arises for the properties 
> >>>>skos:historyNote, skos:changeNote and skos:editorialNote.  
> >>>>Discussion of this issue is beyond the scope of the 
> current review.
> >>>>
> >>>>Ralph [4] hasn't raised any objections to this change.  Some 
> >>>>responses to his comments below:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Rationale is clear.  Do you intend to add examples to the 
> >>>>>specification,
> >>>>>similar to that in [6]?  I expect this will be a FAQ.  (You 
> >>>>
> >>>>did write
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>in a followup to that thread that you would add those 
> >>>>
> >>>>examples, though
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>the change proposal doesn't make that clear.)  Perhaps that 
> >>>>
> >>>>is what is
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>meant by the sub-proposal to add dcterms:audience example.  
> >>>>
> >>>>I suspect
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>that it would be wise to circulate that example to the 
> mailing list
> >>>>>for comment.
> >>>>
> >>>>I intended to draft a section of prose for the SKOS Core 
> >>>>Guide asap and circulate for comment.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I observe that there is useful clarifying material in the thread
> >>>>>about the semantics of editorialNote [7].  I found Stella's
> >>>>>citation in [8] informative.  (The [BS8723] reference [9] in the
> >>>>>SKOS Core Guide does not give a non-practitioner enough 
> information
> >>>>>to locate this document without the aid of, e.g. Google. 
>  I doubt,
> >>>>>for example, that many readers would know to what 
> >>
> >>organization "BSI"
> >>
> >>>>>refers.  Please expand that reference some more.)
> >>>>
> >>>>I'll try to incorporate Stella's clarifying material into the 
> >>>>new prose for the guide.  Also I'll expand the BSI reference.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I worry a bit about the vocabulary management side effects 
> >>
> >>of making
> >>
> >>>>>such a change to the property hierarchy, but I observe that 
> >>>>>implementors
> >>>>>were given notice that this area could change as both 
> >>
> >>publicNote and
> >>
> >>>>>privateNote have status [10] 'unstable' in the 10 May 
> >>
> >>specification.
> >>
> >>>>>Of necessity, that status should be understood to propagate to
> >>>>>subProperties so I think implementers have been given appropriate
> >>>>>caution.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm not sure what to say about this.  I think the notion of 
> >>>>assigning 'stability' to a class or prop is a reasonable 
> >>>>solution for the short term, but issues such as you raise 
> >>>>have not been worked out.  Interesting to discuss further, 
> >>>>but beyond the scope of the current review (something for VM :).
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>>Al.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/review-2#notes-2
> >>>>[2] 
> >>>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/#se
> >>>
> >>>cdocumentation
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>[3] 
> >>>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Aug/
> > 
> > 0000.html
> > 
> >>>[4] 
> >>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Sep
/0007.html
>>>[6] 
>>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Jul/0000.html
>>>[7] 
>>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Aug/0000.html
>>>[8] 
>>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Aug/0007.html
>>>[9] 
>>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/#refBS8723
>>>[10] 
>>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20050510/#secChange
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org
>>>>[mailto:public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Miles, AJ 
>>>>(Alistair)
>>>>Sent: 29 September 2005 14:50
>>>>To: public-esw-thes@w3.org; public-swbp-wg@w3.org; Mark van Assem
>>>>(E-mail); Ralph Swick (E-mail)
>>>>Subject: [PORT] Status of SKOS Core 2nd review
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>I'm going to start wrapping up the second review, taking it 
>>>>proposal by proposal so the emails don't get too long.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again to both reviewers for all their hard work.
>>>>
>>>>Al.
>>>>
>>>>---
>>>>Alistair Miles
>>>>Research Associate
>>>>CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
>>>>Building R1 Room 1.60
>>>>Fermi Avenue
>>>>Chilton
>>>>Didcot
>>>>Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
>>>>United Kingdom
>>>>Email:        a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk
>>>>Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> 

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        mark@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark

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