Semantic Tags (was: public-annotation@w3.org)

Sorry for the stupid subject. It was meant to be "Semantic Tags".

Antoine

On 4/1/15 6:01 PM, Antoine Isaac wrote:
> Dear all,
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> Apologies in advance if my question is stupid. I'm not following the discussions here a lot... And actually I feel I've been involved in chat about the issues I'm going to raise, but can't find any trace of it...
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> This is about semantic tags, in the case one tags an object with a (SKOS) concept: the current solution [1] presents a form of indirection. I.e. the body of the annotation is now a blank node that refer to a resource (the concept), with a skos:related links between both. In the former Open Annotation spec [2], the body was directly the concept itself.
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> I have two questions:
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> - why the indirection? The OA pattern was simpler, and quite matching the intention of semantic tagging. when one tags, one doesn't create a new concept.
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> - why skos:related? Given the sort of semantic tagging scenarios we (and I believe anyone else) have, the link is much stronger from a semantic perspective. I'd have expected skos:exactMatch.
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> Cheers,
>
> Antoine
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-annotation-model-20141211/#semantic-tags
> [2] http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/core.html#Tagging
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