- From: Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@oclc.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:37:28 -0400
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
> From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) [mailto:A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk] > Sent: 06 October, 2004 11:20 > Subject: lexical relationships > > > This is just to guage interest in doing this kind of thing in > SKOS Core ... > > Are we interested in being able to represent things like > spelling variant relationships, abbreviation relationships, > literal translation relationships, in SKOS Core? > > I group these under the label 'lexical relationships' because > they seem different from 'semantic relationships', although a > lexical relationship may not be completely independent of the > sense of the terms involved. > It is desirable to know the "lexical-ness" of a skos:prefLabel or skos:altLabel and would make moving between MARC authorities and SKOS lossless. For example in MARC authorities you can indicate a non-preferred term as an abbreviation. I think spelling variants could be handled by xml:lang and transliterations could be as well, e.g. x-pinyin, but it might be nice to identify a skos:prefLabel or skos:altLabel as a transliteration first a let xml:lang indicate the specific transliteration. You could have skos:abbreviation be a sub-class of skos:altLabel, but this breaks down if you want to indicate that a skos:prefLabel is an abbreviation. So this doesn't seem to me to be a sub-class relationship to skos:prefLabel and skos:altLabel. Andy.
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