- From: 'Thomas Baker' <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:37:05 +0100
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:19:17PM -0000, Alistair Miles wrote:
> > Not quite... I am not talking about the thesaurus concepts
> > that are described using the SKOS Core vocabulary but the
> > "terms" of the SKOS Core vocabulary itself -- terms such as
> > Collection [1] or even Concept [2]. As in: "The base namespace
> > for all terms in the SKOS Core vocabulary is..." and "Each term
> > (i.e. class or property) in the SKOS Core vocabulary..." [3].
>
> Sorry Tom, I misunderstood you too. I have often wanted to use a different
> name to refer to the 'elements/terms/blah' of the SKOS Core vocabulary
> itself, but couldn't think of a better name. The best alternative I thought
> of so far is to refer to the 'classes and properties' of the SKOS Core
> vocabulary. Do you think we should substitute 'terms' for 'classes and
> properties' in the SKOS Core Guide and Spec where it has this meaning?
To be honest, I do not know! In this context, "terms" seems a
bit overdetermined, and therefore confusing. Maybe it would
be clearest simply to talk about "the classes and properties
of SKOS Core".
> > To muddy the waters yet further: in the draft SPARQL spec,
> > an "RDF Term" is defined as "anything that can occur in the
> > RDF data model" -- i.e., literals and URI references! [4]
> >
> > This is somewhat in line with the notion that a vocabulary is a
> > "set of URI references" [5,6]. (Or is it...?)
> >
> > I do not see any way around the "term" problem other than to
> > specify what one means in a particular context ("thesaurus
> > term", "SKOS term", "RDF term"...).
>
> This is a major problem for SKOS. We could perhaps talk about the SKOS Core
> 'resource set' where SKOS Core is itself a description of a set of
> 'resources' (in the RDF sense), and each SKOS Core resource is either an RDF
> property or an RDFS class.
Hmm, I see what you mean, but my first reaction to the name
"resource set" is very negative because I do not immediately
understand what you mean.
> But here also 'resource' to RDF people means
> 'thing' whereas 'resource' to most SKOS Core users probably means 'document'
> or 'information resource'.
Right. "Resource" is too generic here...
> I would for now like to avoid the phrase "SKOS term", because it is not
> clear whether that refers to the SKOS Core vocabulary itself or instance
> data described using the SKOS Core vocabulary. Better we talk about "the
> RDF terms of the SKOS Core vocabulary" or something like that.
But are the terms of the SKOS Core vocabulary really
"RDF terms" in the sense defined in [4] and [5]?
Is "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Collection" an
_identifier_for_ the SKOS term "collection" (i.e., the SKOS
concept "collection"), or _is_ the URI the SKOS term??
> It is our bane to be working at the confluence of two domains with so much
> overlapping vocabulary :)
Indeed...!
Tom
> Al.
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> > Tom
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> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Collection
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/spec/2004-12-17.html
> > [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
> > [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/
> > [6] http://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/subglossary/owl-guide.rdf/20
> >
> > --
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> >
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