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Re: Usage of language tags in SKOS

From: Felix Sasaki <felix.sasaki@fh-potsdam.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:12:32 +0900
Message-ID: <ba4134970906231312g2dfbbeeepd9afbe31b2c0bfa@mail.gmail.com>
To: Simon Spero <ses@unc.edu>
Cc: "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
I understand the problem, though I am not sure if we should push for this
(or rather I) in a comment on the proposed recommendation, since it is not a
problem of the usage of language tags in SKOS which Martin and I mentioned,
but rather a general SKOS design problem. But we will see what the group
discusses on tomorrows call.

Felix

2009/6/24 Simon Spero <ses@unc.edu>

> There are several other serious problems with the current SKOS draft, but I
> will limit myself here to an issue with the use of prefLabel and language
> tags that has not been mentioned in this thread: a concept can have multiple
> classification numbers from the same scheme.
>
> For example, many library of congress subject headings are associated with
> mutiple Dewey Decimal numbers.
>
> Since there can only be one prefLabel per concept per language, this
> presents a problem.
>
> Simon // not as big a problem as the redefinition of broader though
>
>
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