- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:03:15 +0100
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
This requirement is split into two parts: Requirement A The property skos:externalID was intended to be used to specify any lexical identifier for a concept that is not a URI. Essentially, whereas a URI is a globally unique identifier for a concept, the value of the skos:externalID property is supposed to be a locally unique identifier for a concept (i.e. uniquely identifies a concept within the scope of a specific concept-scheme only). I feel the name of the property skos:externalID does not reflect well its intended meaning and usage, and should be replaced with something that does so better. Requirement B If we allow concepts to be a member of more than one concept-scheme, then it becomes ambiguous which scheme the value of a skos:externalID property should be scoped to. So we need some way of saying 'concept X has local identifier Y within the scope of concept-scheme Z'. See also the wiki page <http://esw.w3.org/topic/SkosDev/SkosCore/LocalId> Al. --- Alistair Miles Research Associate 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 Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440
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