- From: Stella Dextre Clarke <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:55:23 +0100
- To: "'Mark van Assem'" <mark@cs.vu.nl>, <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Not sure I agree with the comment, "The editorialNote seems to mix up audience and function, and could be replaced by usage of either skos:historyNote or skos:changeNote with the appropriate audience attached to it." It is called Editorial Note because typically it deals with some matter that needs editorial housekeeping attention. So in one sense it is intended for a particular audience, but only because of its intrinsic *function*, namely to assist good maintenance of the vocabulary. (That's the way I use it, anyway) I would not want to see it mixed up with History Notes or Change Notes. History Notes are intended to help users choose the right formulation of search terms, so they need to see them; Editorial Notes need to be kept out of sight in normal usage, to avoid confusion. Cheers Stella ***************************************************** Stella Dextre Clarke Information Consultant Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8RR, UK Tel: 01235-833-298 Fax: 01235-863-298 SDClarke@LukeHouse.demon.co.uk ***************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mark van Assem Sent: 02 August 2005 13:47 To: public-esw-thes@w3.org Subject: Re: SKOS Core second review Hi, > If you have any objections to these changes, or wish to raise any is sues, please do so at this time by email to this list. Sorry for the delay - here are my comments. * subjectIndicatorUse-1: No comments. * notes-2 Review proposal notes-2 [1] says "There is a requirement for stating the intended audience of a note independently from the function of the note". With that in mind I am wondering about the following properties: - skos:historyNote "A note about the past state/use/meaning of a concept." - skos:changeNote "A note about a modification to a concept." - skos:editorialNote "A note for an editor, translator or maintainer of the vocabulary." The editorialNote seems to mix up audience and function, and could be replaced by usage of either skos:historyNote or skos:changeNote with the appropriate audience attached to it. I also am still wondering about the overlap between skos:historyNote and skos:changeNote (is the difference large enough to warrant separate properties?), but maybe that is best left until after the review. * symbolicLabelsRange-3: Looking into dcmitype:Image [2] I noticed that it is not only a class but an instance as well (of dcterms:DCMIType). This seems tricky for us, as this means that as soon as software (interpreting skos:Concepts with skos:symbol attached to it) also imports the whole dcmitype vocabulary, we're outside OWL DL. Seems that we gain a little and risk a lot in this way by moving to dcmitype:Image. But this question must have popped up with others, so maybe most don't see this as a problem? Can anyone comment on this? * seeAlsoTranslations-4: No comments. Regards, Mark. ------------- [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/review-2#notes-2 [2] http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype#Image -- Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam mark@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark
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