- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:15:55 +0100
- To: 'Leonard Will' <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>, "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
> > In message <415D8205.3010203@hplb.hpl.hp.com> on Fri, 1 Oct > 2004, Dave > Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote > >Sounds fine. So would a name like "skos:indexedUnder" (for a > property > >which links from a document/resource to a thesaurus concept) be a > >preferrable name? > > Yes, but I don't like to use "under", which implies some form of > subordination. Perhaps something like "indexed as", "indexed with", > "associated with" or "relevant to" would be better. The first two of > these put more emphasis on the operation of indexing, implying that > someone has made a decision to apply these terms to a > resource within a > particular catalogue, whereas the second two put more emphasis on the > more abstract statement that there is some relationship between the > resource and the concept. Can't we do 'skos:subject' for this? I think 'skos:subject' fits better with the other proposed properties 'skos:isSubjectOf', 'skos:primarySubject' and 'skos:isPrimarySubjectOf'. (i.e. usage: 'concept X skos:isSubjectOf document d' ... which would be the inverse of 'document d skos:subject concept X') Additionally, this seems preferable to me, because the *meaning* of an indexing assignment is represented ... i.e. we can differentiate between different *types* of indexing e.g. traditional subject-based indexing of documents (for which 'skos:subject' is appropriate) versus typological categorisation of museum objects (for which presumably you'd want to use a different property). Al. > > >> A thesaurus may have concepts which are "classes of one", often > >>represented by proper names, but these are still concepts, not > >>resources. > > > >Thanks, that's helped to clarify the earlier discussion. So > the second > >modeling I suggested (that the analogue of a skos:Concept 'Alistair > >Miles' would be an owl:Class with one member) would be the normal > >interpretation. > > Yes. There may be many resources or documents about "Alistair Miles", > but they would each be linked to the single thesaurus concept > identified > by his name. > > Leonard > > -- > Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, > Sheena E Will) > Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 > (0)20 8372 0092 > 27 Calshot Way, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 7BQ, UK. Fax: +44 > (0)870 051 7276 > L.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk > Sheena.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk > ---------------- <URL:http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/> > ----------------- >
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