Re: Design Issues (1) - Specialised vocab vs. extensible modular voca bs?

Hi,

I can't access the Wiki at the moment, and in any case don't know how you want 
comments, so I'll stick to email.

By KOS do you mean "Knowledge Organization Scheme"?
What does that cover? Are you including ontologies in there?

If the answer to the last question is "yes" then I suggest avoiding 3. A common 
core for all different thesaurus and ontology schemes is in danger of being so 
generic as to be little more than raw RDF(S).

Dave

Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:

> I've added this issue to the discussion on the RDF Thesaurus wiki page
> <http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfThesaurus>
> 
> Here is a summary:-
> 
> 
> Issue 1 - Specialised vocab vs. extensible modular vocabs?
> 
> 
> Although most thesauri are pretty similar, there are important variations,
> and many thesauri deviate from the standards. Also, thesauri are very
> similar to other KOS e.g. classification schemes, taxonomis, topic maps. How
> do we cope with this? 
> 
> Option 1 - Define a specialised vocabulary that covers only thesauri that
> comply with the standards. 
> 
> Option 2 - Define a core vocab that captures what is common to all thesauri.
> Then define extension modules to cope with different flavours of thesauri. 
> 
> Option 3 - Define a core vocab that captures what is common to all KOS
> (thesauri, taxonomies, classification schemes, topic maps etc.). Define
> first level extension module for thesauri. Define second level extension for
> flavours. 
> 
> === Comments on Issue 1 === 
> 
> AJM>> 
> 
> What we did previously ( [WWW]early draft of 8.1
> <http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliv81.htm>) was half way between (1) and
> (2). 
> 
> I would like to go for (3), but am prepared to backtrack towards (2), which
> may happen when we hit interop with this and OWL. (3) Would mean we have a
> way of fitting all these KOS together on the semantic web, which would be a
> good thing. 
> 
> Going for (3) means we have to define a core vocab. I've kind of assumed
> this is what we are doing (tell me if you think it's a bad idea), and issues
> below relate first to this core vocab. We need a name for this core vocab,
> so at least we can refer to it. For now, I'm going to call it the core
> vocab. In code, I'm using the prefix soks. Why soks? Short for SuperKOS! Got
> any ideas about a better name? 
> 
> 
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