- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:41:48 +0100
- To: 'Leonard Will' <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>, "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
I'm actually thinking about supporting candidate/deprecated *concepts* (and not terms), which brings a slightly different set of requirements. 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Leonard Will > Sent: 07 October 2004 15:20 > To: 'public-esw-thes@w3.org' > Subject: Re: candidate and deprecated concepts > > > > In message > <350DC7048372D31197F200902773DF4C05E50C7D@exchange11.rl.ac.uk> > on Thu, 7 > Oct 2004, "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> wrote > > > >The paradigm (as I understand it) in the thesaurus world is > for terms (or > >concepts) to go through three stages: candidate, accepted, > deprecated (i.e. > >replaced). > > > >We can use dcterms:replaces and dcterms:isReplacedBy to > describe concept > >replacements I think (although how to handle replacement > with combinations > >is uncertain yet). > > If use of a term is discontinued, it is good practice to > retain it as a > non-preferred term, with a USE pointer to the term or combination of > terms that should be used in future for the concept that it > represented. > A history note should indicate when it was used for indexing. > > I don't think that you need to distinguish between "deprecated" and > "non-preferred" terms, which you would express as altLabels. > As you have > noted, you do however have to handle combinations such as: > > "physics education USE physics AND education" > > 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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