Re: Usage of language tags in SKOS

You're probably right on this; I brought the the issue up last year in an
attempt to show the the language tag hack did not even solve the problem it
was addressing ( i.e. classification schemes don't have the same properties
as natural languages ).


Simon
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Felix Sasaki <felix.sasaki@fh-potsdam.de>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>