Re: ANN: The Vehicle Sales Ontology - Cars, Bikes, Boats on the Web of Data - http://purl.org/vso/ns

On 2 Sep 2010, at 05:41, Martin Hepp wrote:

> The reason for "mileageFromOdometer" is that the most popular term for that in the US is "mileage", which unfortunately is also used for the distance per amount of fuel. So I had to disambiguate while still using a term that automative domain experts would search for. "readingFromOdometer" is a better term, but I fear that it will not be intuitive for US-based Web developers, and the US market for cars is likely a major target audience for the ontology.

<owl:ObjectProperty rdf:about="http://purl.org/vso/ns#readingFromOdometer">
  ...
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">readingFromOdometer</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-us">mileageFromOdometer</rdfs:label>
  ...
</owl:ObjectProperty>

Cheers...
Renato Iannella
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Received on Thursday, 2 September 2010 01:14:52 UTC