RE: notes at contepts vs notes at terms

Hi Stella,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Stella 
> Dextre Clarke
> Sent: 19 October 2005 10:13
> To: 'Mark van Assem'; public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [PORT] Moved: 2nd Public Working Draft for SKOS 
> Core Guide
> and SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
> 
> 
> 
> Just a brief word of support for Mark's concern. When a thesaurus is
> being used for its intended purpose, i.e. information retrieval, what
> matters is the Concept rather than the Term, so you would think that
> notes on Terms are quite irrelevant. 
> But while you are the editor
> building and maintaining the thesaurus, and perhaps sharing your data
> with other editors, it is sometimes useful to be able to record
> housekeeping information about individual terms. I can see that the
> model becomes more complicated if you allow terms to have 
> notes, but it
> also becomes more versatile, more generally applicable.

I think we could fit this into the model, but I'd like to make sure we do it only where appropriate and absolutely necessary.  Hence I'd like for us to review a good set of requirements before making any design decisions.  So if you could describe the  scenarios you have encountered where notes are usefully associated with non-preferred terms, that would be very helpful.

Cheers,

Al.