- From: Robert Watkins <rwatkins@foo-bar.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 12:50:18 -0400
- To: Stella Dextre Clarke <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk>
- cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
I completely agree with Stella. My use of the term 'qualifier' was
intended only in the context of MeSH. My proposal, if it be so grand,
was simply to suggest the use of something such as skos:isMemberOf,
not that the term 'qualifier' be associated with SKOS in any way
other than the standards Stella mentions.
-- Robert
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Robert Watkins
rwatkins@foo-bar.org
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PS -- Stella: I read about the use of 'qualifier' you cite in the
document ANSI/NISO Z39.19-200x ("Guidelines for the Construction,
Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies").
Are we talking about the same standard here?
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Stella Dextre Clarke wrote:
> This is not a direct comment on Robert's proposal for SKOS, but a note
> of caution concerning the term "qualifier".
>
> In ISO 2788, BS 5723 and the forthcoming BS 8723, "qualifier" means
> something slightly different from the usage described for MeSH. In the
> standards, a qualifier is a string which is added in parentheses to a
> proposed thesaurus term, usually to distinguish it from homographs.
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