- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:13:27 +0100
- To: "Alistair Miles" <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'Reul, Q. H.'" <q.reul@abdn.ac.uk>, "'SWD WG'" <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On 2 May 2008, at 11:04, Alistair Miles wrote: > > Hi Quentin, > > Yes, in a sense there is duplication. But XL gives you a convenient > way to > make statements about the lexical entities used in a knowledge > organisation > system, which vanilla SKOS doesn't. It also gives you a way to > "dumb-down" > to vanilla SKOS, to get the simplified representation. > > E.g. using SKOS+XL ... > > <C1> rdf:type skos:Concept; > xl:prefLabel <L1>; > xl:altLabel <L2>; > skos:inScheme <S>. > > <L1> rdf:type xl:Label; > xl:literalForm "animals"@en; > skos:inScheme <S>; > dc:source "Another thesaurus."@en. > > <L2> rdf:type xl:Label; > xl:literalForm "fauna"@en; > skos:inScheme <S>; > dc:source "Yet another thesaurus."@en. > > ... which can be "dumbed-down" via the XL data model to vanilla > SKOS as ... > > <C1> rdf:type skos:Concept; > skos:prefLabel "animals"@en; > skos:altLabel "fauna"@en; > skos:inScheme <S>. > > ... does that make sense? > > I suppose you could achieve the same goal without xl:prefLabel, > xl:altLabel > and xl:hiddenLabel, e.g. ... > > <C1> rdf:type skos:Concept; > xl:prefLabel "animals"@en; > xl:altLabel "fauna"@en; Shouldn't these be skos:prefLabel and skos:altLabel? > skos:inScheme <S>. > > <L1> rdf:type xl:Label; > xl:literalForm "animals"@en; > skos:inScheme <S>; > dc:source "Another thesaurus."@en. > > <L2> rdf:type xl:Label; > xl:literalForm "fauna"@en; > skos:inScheme <S>; > dc:source "Yet another thesaurus."@en. -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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