Re: gender: Why does vCard Ontology define class hierarchy instead of skos:Concept resources ?

vCard is a model for describing people and organizations. SKOS is a 
model for describing vocabularies and related metadata--modeling the 
vocabularies themselves, as opposed to the concepts that they represent. 
It's not unusual for parts of SKOS to be re-used in other vocabularies, 
but using a little bit of it just to represent the gender part of vCard 
would be odd--especially when you consider that the vCard ontology is 
about seven years old than SKOS.

Bob

On 6/4/2014 10:25 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> The vCard Ontology uses a class hierarchy to formulate gender values
> (vcard:Female, vcard:Male, vcard:None, vcard:Other and vcard:Unknown as
> subclasses of vcard:Gender).
>
> That is unusual and not really usable.
>
> Why is no skos:ConceptScheme with skos:Concept resources used for that
> purpose?
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> ---
>
> vCard Ontology - for describing People and Organizations
> W3C Interest Group Note 22 May 2014
> http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/

Received on Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:35:20 UTC