- From: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:00:50 +0100
- To: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Cc: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
In message <BANLkTikFVM5RHhaNZ7kP54C-EeVfsRtz8Q@mail.gmail.com>, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> writes >Hello > >Currently working on migration of OPOCE authority tables to SKOS >(countries, languages, currencies etc) I stumble on the following issue : >A country (say : Greece) has terms denoting its nationality (Greek). If we >want to represent the nationality as a skos:Concept, in some languages >which have different forms for different genders, which one is to be chosen >as the unique prefLabel in French : "grec" (M) or "grecque" (F)? Either >choice is politically incorrect :) > >Note that in this case we will use skos-xl to in order to capture the >"gender" property. But the issue is the same in skos or skos-xl. > >So far I've used a workaround by attaching directly the nationality labels to >the country concept using an ad hoc "nationalityLabel" property, but it's >only a workaround in the sense that I skip the issue by not representing >explicitly the nationality as a Concept. > >Thoughts? How about e.g. "grec/grecque" as the prefLabel? Richard -- Richard Light
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