Re: using SKOS for controlled values for controlled vocabulary

Hi Ken

I am facing a similar issue trying work out how to best model a vocabulary
using SKOS,but the primer
did not address my issues
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/

I am informed by Antoine I that there is a SKOS mailing list where to post
specific questions but I may not have capacity to join
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/mail

Please let us know if you learn something, I ll share with you my notes
offlist in case you can add wisdom

PDM



On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Laskey, Ken <klaskey@mitre.org> wrote:

>
> I am looking to define a controlled vocabulary that contains a list of
> description elements.  Values will be associated with the individual
> description elements, where some of values should be constrained by other
> controlled vocabularies. For example, my description set contains (length,
> weight, color) and color is to be constrained to (red, yellow, blue).
>
>  I was looking to represent this in SKOS.  My thoughts were:
>
> -          The descriptive elements would each be SKOS Concepts
>
> -          The set of description elements forming the controlled
> vocabulary would be a SKOS Concept Scheme
>
> -          The controlled values would a SKOS Collection.
>
> What I am missing is how to say a given description element in one
> controlled vocabulary, e.g. a SKOS Concept Scheme, can be constrained to a
> list of values, e.g. a SKOS Collection.  I was considering rdfs:range but
> I’m not sure that is applicable.
>
> I was surprised that the SKOS examples I found on the Web don’t mention
> this.  Am I missing something fundamental?
>
> Ken
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Kenneth Laskey
> MITRE Corporation, M/S H305              phone: 703-983-7934
> 7515 Colshire Drive                             fax:      703-983-1379
> McLean VA 22102-7508
>
>
>