- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0000
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
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 4 - Concepts as language-embedded, language independent, or both? There are multilingual thesauri. When modelling multilingual data in RDF, we can choose one of the following options: Option 1: Concepts in a language - allow language properties only on nodes typed as Concepts. Option 2: Labels in a language - allow language properties (or tags) only on nodes (or literals) which represent labels. Option 3: And/or - allow concepts and/or labels to have language properties. The choice of solution has bold implications. If we choose option 1 we are assuming that all abstract concepts are embedded in a language; there can be no language independent concepts. If we choose option 2 we can model only concepts that are deemed to be 'language-independent'. If we choose option 3 we can represent both language-embedded and language-independent concepts, however there may be some considerable scope for confusion. ... more at <http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfThesaurus> 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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