- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:32:02 +0100
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Just to respond to Andy's mail about facets: I'm going to resist the introduction of anything with the name 'facet' into the SKOS-Core schema, because the word 'facet' has become too overloaded (see earlier mail [1] and subsequent discussion [2]). The basic problem faced by the community of people involved in thesaurus development and classification as I have experienced it is an overloading of functional terminology, leading to people talking at cross-purposes. Hence I have always put a lot of thought into the naming and the description of the SKOS-Core schema classes and properties, in an effort to reduce the possibility for ambiguity and confusion to an absolute minimum. Al. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2004Mar/0066.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2004Mar/ --- 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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