RE: symbolic labels

Hi Mark,

I have no specific use case for this, but I would like SKOS Core to follow the design pattern that all property families that share common semantics descend from a single super-property.  I think it is important to capture common semantics, and is important from the point of view of extensions, where each property is in principle an extension (refinement) point.

So 'skos:symbol' (I propose that name, instead of the longer 'skos:symbolicLabel') would be the symbol equivalent to rdfs:label.

Cheers,

Al.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark van Assem [mailto:mark@cs.vu.nl]
> Sent: 01 July 2005 13:51
> To: Miles, AJ (Alistair)
> Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: Re: symbolic labels
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In general always a good idea to introduce a superprop, but 
> what's the 
> use case here? Will implementers be wanting to show a 
> skos:symbolicLabel instead of just checking whether there is a 
> prefSymbol available?
> 
> Mark.
> 
> Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Following the design pattern for lexical labels, i.e. a 
> property hierarchy with a single root, e.g. ...
> > 
> > rdfs:label
> >  |
> >  +-- skos:prefLabel
> >  |
> >  +-- skos:altLabel
> >  |
> >  +-- skos:hiddenLabel
> > 
> > ... oughtn't we have a single property at the root of the 
> symbolic labelling properties, e.g. ...
> > 
> > skos:symbolicLabel
> >  |
> >  +-- skos:prefSymbol
> >  |
> >  +-- skos:altSymbol
> > 
> > ... ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Al.
> > 
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