Re: SKOS - applicability

Dear Drew,

SKOS indeed seems one right tool to use in your scenario.
Of course the exceptions that you mention make much sense. But do not forget that Semantic Web techniques allow you to specialize SKOS constructs (such as skos:related and skos:definition or skos:note) as you see fit!

For example:
your-namespace:expression rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:note .

This way, you can represent specialized data in your application, but it remains compatible with more general SKOS tool.

Best,

Antoine


> Hello, I am currently working on a project whereby we are trying to 
> create an online space for different groups of students to allow them to 
> explore ideas by creating multimedia stories about them.  For example 
> they may create a short multimedia story on a particular idea/concept 
> such as Television or Media etc etc.   We want to allow students to link 
> the concepts they create to other concepts in the system and build a 
> kind of concept map of the knowledge for each group. 
> 
>  
> 
> SKOS appears to be ideal for this kind of concept linking, albeit with a 
> few exceptions that I will detail below, but I would like to know if 
> anyone disagreed.  I suppose the alternative would be to use use rdfs 
> and create a schema specifically for this but SKOS already provides a 
> great conceptual framework for expressing this type of in-formal linking 
> of concepts.
> 
>  
> 
> The exceptions that I mentioned above are really with regards to the 
> following:
> 
> ·         skos:related – I think this is too general and will need to be 
> extended, perhaps with a small collection of pre-defined subtypes or the 
> possibility of one subtype which allowed user to add their own label for 
> the relationship (though this option has some obvious issues when scale)
> 
> ·         skos:definition – This is too formal I think we would need to 
> add a new type perhaps something like ‘expression’ that would have as 
> its object a uri to the story the user created to express their 
> multimedia story on the subject.
> 
>  
> 
> As I said I am really looking for some feedback on whether Skos, 
> extended with rdfs, would be suited to this type of application or 
> whether a new rdfs altogether would be more suitable.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback at all.
> 
> 
> Drew
> 
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Received on Monday, 11 January 2010 12:08:53 UTC