Re: Using DBpedia resources as skos:Concepts?

Hi François-Paul

There is a consensus to use foaf:focus for this, at least major users of
SKOS (hereafter OCLC) use it

See e.g., the VIAF identifier for Michelle Obama
http://viaf.org/viaf/81404344/
In http://viaf.org/viaf/81404344/rdf.xml there is one concept defined for
each VIAF concept source (concept scheme),
e.g., for BNF :

<skos:Concept rdf:about="http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/BNF%7C15968083#skos:Concept"><skos:inScheme
rdf:resource="http://viaf.org/authorityScheme/BNF"/><skos:prefLabel>Obama,
Michelle, 1964-</skos:prefLabel><foaf:focus
rdf:resource="http://viaf.org/viaf/81404344"/></skos:Concept>

As for distinction between the concept and the page about it, seems to me
the general consensus is to consider a skos:Concept as a non-information
resource, so it should have a URI distinct from the one of the page
representing it.

Best

Bernard

2012/11/12 François-Paul Servant <francois-paul.servant@noos.fr>

> Hi,
>
> people seem to agree to keep SKOS concepts and "real world things" (such
> as those identified by dbPedia URIs) in separate spaces:
> dbPedia:Michelle_Obama is not a skos:Concept.
>
> What property should be used to link a SKOS concept to the corresponding
> "real world thing"?
> One suggestion in the thread is to use umbel:linksEntity. Is there
> agreement on a given property?
>
> Are SKOS concepts to be considered as "Non Information Resource"? (and
> must we therefore use 303-redirect for SKOS concepts identified by slash
> URIs?) The word "concept" seems to imply that they are. But:
> <quote>skos:Concept is basically a "library business object", likely to
> bear properties such as Dublin Core (created, modified, creator,
> publisher)</quote>. It looks like they are not very different from a
> document: are there reasons to distinguish between a SKOS concept and the
> web page about it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> fps
>



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