- From: Carl Mattocks <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:20:45 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
As much as I think it is confusing to apply ' USE' to a compound-term that is not-preferred .. I consider that the particular 'thesaurus management' technique useful for denoting deprecated *concepts*. However, I am not comfortable about "use'ing" it for candidate *concepts*. carl <quote who="Miles, AJ (Alistair)"> > > 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/> >> ----------------- >> > > -- Carl Mattocks co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC CEO CHECKMi v/f (usa) 908 322 8715 www.CHECKMi.com Semantically Smart Compendiums (AOL) IM CarlCHECKMi
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