- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:08:58 -0000
- To: "Matthews, BM (Brian) " <B.M.Matthews@rl.ac.uk>, "Nikki Rogers (E-mail)" <Nikki.Rogers@bristol.ac.uk>, "Dave Beckett (E-mail)" <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi guys, The previous title of 8.1 was 'RDF Schema for ISO Standard Thesauri' The big problem I've had with trying to write this up is that the schema in that document tries to deal with multilingual as well as monolingual thesauri. So it preempts the discussion of multilingual thesauri which is supposed to come in 8.3. It also preempts a discussion of interthesaurus mapping, which is supposed to be in 8.4. I propose to change the title of 8.1 to 'Core RDF Vocabularies for Monolingual Thesauri' and present a core solution to the monolingual thesaurus problem. Save a discussion and analysis of the multilingual problem for 8.3. To give you an idea of where I'm going with this, take a look at http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliverables/8.1_0_3.html Also please note the section on 'Using Thesaurus Concepts for Subject Indexing and Classification'. What I've tried to do is design a schema for thesauri that fits seamlessly with what dublin core and LOM are doing re subject classification. Brian I know you're keen to move this along, but I think it's really worth making sure what we've got fits with things like RDFS, dublin core and LOM before going public. If you like this direction, I can have this ready for submission by next week. Yours, Alistair. Refs: Expressing qualified dublin core in RDF/XML http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-rdf-xml/ RDF Binding of LOM metadata http://kmr.nada.kth.se/el/ims/metadata.html CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1235 445440
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