Re: Are multiple notations actually used?

Dear Kerin,

Thanks for your answer about skos:notation, I crossed the same need at the
Publications Office of the European Union and I prefer your solution as the
one I was thinking of (create sub-properties of skos:notation).

You might have an answer to this related question:

The same concept (same URI) is used in a thesaurus and then reused in an
other conceptScheme representing a taxonomy. In each conceptScheme we want
to give an id to the concept related to its location in the conceptScheme
hierarchy, something like 4.53 in the first conceptScheme and 2.4.55 in the
second. We use skos:notation for this property.

We need to say that one skos:notation is valid for the first conceptScheme
and the second one for the second conceptScheme.

Would you use the "rdf:datatype" solution to differentiate the 2
skos:notation and relate them to the proper conceptScheme ? Would you use
an other solution ?

The reuse of concept (using a single URI, not skos:match) in several
conceptScheme brings a lot of questions, but this is one for which I don't
have any good answer today.

Yours
Jean





2014-02-17 1:02 GMT+01:00 Kevin Ford <kefo@3windmills.com>:

> Dear Jacob,
>
> When it came time to convert our MARC Organizations dataset into RDF/SKOS,
> we did not want to lose information and granularity we had collected and
> maintained for years.  We've formally maintained and published multiple
> codes for each Organization (one code is the "official" one; one code
> represents a normalized form; another possible code - though not presently
> included - is an ISIL [1].  Regardless, the ISIL, if we choose to include
> it, represents yet another perfectly valid code for the same Concept).
>
> In any event, we established two different datatypes, one for each code
> (the "official" one and the normalized one).  See, for example:
>
> http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlcmrc.skos.rdf
>
> Yours,
> Kevin
>
> [1] http://biblstandard.dk/isil/
>
> --
> Kevin Ford
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/14/2014 01:53 PM, Voß, Jakob wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am designing a software that uses SKOS data and unsure about how to
>> limit notations. Are multiple notations per concepts actually used? The
>> advise to use custom datatypes is rather unhelpful because RDF has no
>> default mechanism to express information about datatypes. If most concept
>> schemes have only one notation per Concept, I'd rather make this a
>> constraint instead of implementing edge cases that nobody makes use of
>> anyway. See also my question at http://answers.semanticweb.
>> com/questions/26492/are-skos-concepts-with-multiple-
>> notations-actually-used
>>
>> Jakob
>>
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>>
>


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