Re: Design Issue (4) - constraining 'descriptor'/'prefLabel' card inality for multilingual thesauri

* Miles, AJ (Alistair)  <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> [2003-11-10 12:17-0000]
> > Backing up a bit, is there a lot of value in having a cardinality 
> > constraint on soks:descriptor? 
> > 
> > <soks:Concept>
> >  <soks:descriptor xml:lang="en">Bangers and mash 
> > (cuisine)</soks:descriptor>
> >  <soks:descriptor xml:lang="fr">Saucisson et pomme de terre 
> > Anglais</soks:descriptor>
> > </soks:Concept>
> > 
> > ...looks good to me. Is it significantly more annoying for 
> > some classes
> > of user, implementation etc?
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> It just means we have to write some guidelines for usage and hope people
> stick to them.  We can't use something like OWL to formally express the
> constraint.

Prose is under-estimated :)

> Personally, I'm fine with this approach.  It's simple and pragmatic.  Anyone
> think this could be a problem?
> 
> Al.  
>  

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