RE: [Proposal][SKOS-Core] New vocab for arrays of concepts

Danny wrote:
> Most of the constructs aren't really tied to Concepts, it might be
> worth considering breaking these out into another namespace as a
> utility vocabulary, perhaps having  skos:inCollection and
> skos:viewUnder as specializations of properties with a more general
> domain/range. I'm not sure - might the collections be useful elsewhere
> in SKOS, say for expressing lists of  top concepts?

Yes absolutely.  Here are two other places where a general collection vocab
is required:

(1) In conjunction with the SKOS Mapping vocab - often a concept in a source
scheme maps to more than one concept in a target scheme (i.e. to some
combination of concepts).  Currently SKOS Mapping uses containers (i.e.
rdf:Bag) to build mapping targets, but I think that should be changed. 

(2) To use SKOS Core for describing web browser bookmark schemes ... I spoke
to Jose Kahan about this earlier this year - he is developing the feature
for W3C's Amaya browser [1] (which is very cool btw and certainly the best
html editor I've ever come across) that allows you to export your bookmark
scheme and bookmarks as RDF.  He has a strong user requirement for the order
of both the bookmarks and the bookmark folders to be preserved between
sessions - so he needs to be able to express the ordering of a set of
children under a parent node.  However, these collections don't necessarily
have to have a label.     

So I think Danny's right to suggest a general collection vocabulary which
can be extended and applied to things like arrays of concepts, concept
mapping, browser bookmarks etc.

Whether to put this in a different namespace or not I don't know.  As
always, whatever we do, I think we should make a strong effort to keep
things as simple as possible :)

Al.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Amaya

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Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:49:31 UTC