AW: best practice property to use for naming a skos:ConceptScheme

Especially in RDFa it is easy to use both, so from the next release of STW I will do something like this:

<span property="skos:prefLabel dcterms:title">STW Thesaurus for Economics</span>

Cheers, Joachim

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Johannes Busse
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. März 2011 09:55
> An: Bob DuCharme
> Cc: SKOS
> Betreff: Re: best practice property to use for naming a 
> skos:ConceptScheme
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> > whether rdfs:label or skos:prefLabel would be better, ...
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ says:
> 
> "S11: skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel are 
> each sub-properties of rdfs:label."
> 
> "5.6.1.: no domain is stated for skos:prefLabel ... using the 
> properties skos:prefLabel ... to label any type of resource 
> is consistent with the SKOS data model."
> 
> In general you say more if you use rather specific 
> properties. It's then the task of a reasoner to compute the 
> generalization.
> 
> If one is sure he or she intends the meaning which is 
> connotated with the skos namespace: Why not use it?
> 
> best
> Johannes
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> Dr. Johannes Busse
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> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 10:48:33 UTC