On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote: > Bernard Vatant wrote: > >> Not sure what is the answer to Amir's question is, but a side remark : >> >> skos:subject has been deprecated in the final SKOS recommendation [1] and >> IMO should be replaced throughout DBpedia (and the linked data cloud in >> general) by dcterms:subject [2] >> It's been discussed at length on DC list if the range of dcterms:subject >> should be restricted or kept open as it is now, but in any case using >> skos:Concept instances as values of this property is considered a good >> practice from both SKOS and DC sides. >> If I remember well, skos:subject was removed from the spec on the very >> argument that SKOS should not specify how concepts should be used for >> indexing, letting this to metadata specifications such as Dublin Core. And >> singularly dcterms:subject was in the radar. >> > Is this still viable given the restriction of role chains to object properties? Simon
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