RE: [open-bibliography] MARC Codes for Forms of Musical Composition

One reason umbel:isLike isn't broadly used might be because people
assume owl:sameAs is named intuitively.

 

Jeff

 

From: rxs@talisplatform.com [mailto:rxs@talisplatform.com] On Behalf Of
Ross Singer
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:25 PM
To: Karen Coyle
Cc: William Waites; Houghton,Andrew; public-lld; Young,Jeff (OR)
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] MARC Codes for Forms of Musical
Composition

 

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

	 

	rdfs:seeAlso seems to be similar to the http "link" -- there's
some relationship, but you don't know what it is. Wouldn't some of this
be solved by having richer relationships?

 

Definitely.  The issue more lies in finding a relationship that not only
says what you want, but is also common enough that other people (or,
really, agents, but there's still a person there somewhere) recognize
it.  For example, umbel:isLike (like Jeff mentioned, like
http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/dv#genre uses) hits a fairly sweet
spot, I think, as far as saying you think you're talking about the same
thing, but nobody really uses umbel, really.

 

And therein lies the rub.  If skos:exactMatch/closeMatch didn't infer
skos:Concepts on either end or foaf had some equivalency property, no
problem.  But some relatively obscure vocabulary (with a very difficult
to grok general purpose) is going to be a much tougher sell.

 

-Ross.