RE: Labelling ConceptSchemes: Best Practices?

Within the context of KOSs, I understood that skos:prefLabel should be used for the 'term' or 'word' that had traditionally been used as the concept identifier. That is the reason for the cardinality constraint.
Is there the same notion for a ConceptScheme?
I don't think so, and would be included to use dc:title since that is the element used most widely for a generic label.

OTOH the elaboration below appears to focus more on nesting and hierarchies, or perhaps governance? (i.e. subsets with different governance arrangements) in which case I don't see the merit in using skos:prefLabel as I think it was designed for an orthogonal concern.

Simon Cox

From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Corlosquet
Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 6:35 PM
To: Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez
Cc: Alistair Miles; public-esw-thes@w3.org
Subject: Re: Labeling ConceptSchemes: Best Practices?


2010/8/10 Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez <pastor@um.es<mailto:pastor@um.es>>
Hi Alistair:

Yes, basically this is my question. Thinking primarily in an
application where a KOS can be represented with several Conceptscheme.
A response from Christophe I understand the need to use DC to describe
each Conceptscheme as a resource. I would also add SKOS labels for
querying and browsing the KOS.

For now, the solution I implemented in the KOS Management System, I am
developing is:

* Each Concept, Conceptscheme and Collection, must be labeled with at
least one prefLabel.

Bear in mind that a resource should only have one prefLabel per language tag [1], so the above is fine as long as you meant to have all the prefLabel's in different language tags.

* Optionally, the user can add Dublin Core Metadata.

To describe the taxonomies in Drupal 7, we use dc:title to label ConceptScheme resources and skos:prefLabel/rdfs:label to label Concept resources, but there seem to be no strict guideline on this.

Steph.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L1567


So, I think it would be best to label a Conceptscheme with at least
one prefLabel, and optionally add DC.

What do you think?

Cheers

Juan


El día 10 de agosto de 2010 10:39, Alistair Miles
<alimanfoo@googlemail.com<mailto:alimanfoo@googlemail.com>> escribió:
> Hi Juan,
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question.
>
> Are you asking whether...
>
> <X> rdf:type skos:ConceptScheme ; dc:title "My First Thesaurus"@en .
>
> ...or...
>
> <X> rdf:type skos:ConceptScheme ; skos:prefLabel "My First Thesaurus"@en .
>
> ...is best practice?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alistair
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:50:12PM +0200, Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez wrote:
>> Hello everyone:
>>
>> I doubt arises regarding labeling practices of SKOS Conceptscheme. The
>> most common practice is the labeling by dc: title. From my point of
>> view might have to distinguish between the description of an action by
>> a metadata schema (in this case Dublin Core) and the need for
>> consistent Conceptscheme from the perspective of the SKOS model.
>>
>> In the latter case I think would be labeled by concepts prefLabel
>> schemes, altLabel, and even hiddenLabel for and applications using
>> SKOS data, to query a specific KOS, using these properties.
>>
>> DC labels should be limited to the description of a SKOS element in
>> the environment of other data sets for other applications (such as a
>> digital repository).
>>
>> In this regard, my analysis of most of the SKOS Dataset has led me to
>> the conclusion (maybe I'm wrong) that for the most common practice to
>> represent a KOS, normally used only one Conceptscheme.
>>
>> I have the feeling that this practice creates KOS too "monolithics",
>> limiting their interoperability and reusability. Perhaps this is why
>> normally used dc: title instead of SKOS properties to label
>> Conceptscheme.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Juan.
>>
>> --
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>> Dep. of Information and Documentation
>> Faculty of Communication and Documentation
>> University of Murcia
>> phone: +34 868 88 8780
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>>
>
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Dep. of Information and Documentation
Faculty of Communication and Documentation
University of Murcia
phone: +34 868 88 8780
http://webs.um.es/pastor
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