- From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:01:23 +0100
- CC: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Guus Schreiber wrote: > > While trying to write down a resolution for the relationship between > labels I found: > > in the Core Guide, section on Multilingual La belling [1] > > [[ > It is recommended that no two concepts in the same concept scheme be > given the same > preferred lexical label in any given language. > ]] > > in the Core Specification, table of prefLabel [2] > > [[ > No two concepts in the same concept scheme may have the same value for > skos:prefLabel > in a given language. > ]] I see no need for placing a constraint on the uniqueness of skos:prefLabel. While some/many vocabularies will actually abide to this, the URI of the concept the label is related already ensures uniqueness of the concept being identified (which I assume was the reason for including this constraint in the ISO spec). I also suggest that there is no need to place cardinality constraints on skos:prefLabel. The underlying rationale is that we should refrain from overcommiting the SKOS specification when there is no clear need. I want to raise this as an issue and propose the above as a resolution. > > The weaker constraint in the Guide makes sense to me. I will most likely > propose an even weaker version in my resolution. > > Guus > > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/#secmulti > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/#prefLabel -- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 598 7739/7718; F: +31 84 712 1446 Home page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/
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