Re: SemWeb terminology page

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 01:42:18AM -0500, Marcia Zeng wrote:
> I agree with what Tom summarized.  It is based on the
> usage of those vocabularies we put them into Group 1 and 2,
> not on their encoding format/representation in our case of
> LLD requirements doc.  In other cases, some vocabularies
> may belong to more than one group, depending on how and
> where they are used. For example, for bibo we use it to
> prepared bibliographical data like using DCterms, that is
> Group 2. However if from library and information science
> field point of view, it is a kind of KOS that models the
> a subject domain, similar to the function of Dewey Decimal
> Classification's certain schedule and classes, and can be
> used as a Group 1 vocabulary.

This is an important point.  Whatever terms we decide on,
we must emphasize that these are not either/or categories.
FRBR is a good example of something that can be viewed
from multiple angles and does not fit neatly into any one
particular box.  As Antoine puts it, they are not "disjoint".

Tom

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Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>

Received on Friday, 3 December 2010 16:41:20 UTC